A Field-full of WondersRoutledge, Warne&Routledge, 1863 - 152 стор. |
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... grow in England ! " " Three hundred ? " cried Bob , " and I never saw but one - the same as this that grows in the ... grow , for any length of time , alone . A field sown with one kind of grass - seed soon shows blank patches , which ...
... grow in England ! " " Three hundred ? " cried Bob , " and I never saw but one - the same as this that grows in the ... grow , for any length of time , alone . A field sown with one kind of grass - seed soon shows blank patches , which ...
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... grown had the soil and climate been favourable . The seeds of a German plant called the Centaury were driven by the wind into the sea and landed on the coast of Sweden . Linnæus records that the Flea Bane , in the course of a century ...
... grown had the soil and climate been favourable . The seeds of a German plant called the Centaury were driven by the wind into the sea and landed on the coast of Sweden . Linnæus records that the Flea Bane , in the course of a century ...
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... grow the seed - produce of a single year ! But to return to grass . The height of some that grows in the tropics exceeds that of our alders and oaks ; while some that grows in South America reaches a height of thirty or forty feet . It ...
... grow the seed - produce of a single year ! But to return to grass . The height of some that grows in the tropics exceeds that of our alders and oaks ; while some that grows in South America reaches a height of thirty or forty feet . It ...
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... grows ! Imagine yourself a cow , Bob , and then think how grateful you ought to be ! " We all laughed - all but Bob , that is ; he blushed and wriggled himself behind us , so as to get out of sight for a moment , for he was as bashful ...
... grows ! Imagine yourself a cow , Bob , and then think how grateful you ought to be ! " We all laughed - all but Bob , that is ; he blushed and wriggled himself behind us , so as to get out of sight for a moment , for he was as bashful ...
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... grow wild in England , the most severe stinger being the Roman Nettle , which grows near the sea . " " The Roman Nettle ? " said Charley . " Well , it has been gravely related that the Romans had received such a terrible account of the ...
... grow wild in England , the most severe stinger being the Roman Nettle , which grows near the sea . " " The Roman Nettle ? " said Charley . " Well , it has been gravely related that the Romans had received such a terrible account of the ...
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ALBANY FONBLANQUE animals Ants beautiful Bees birds Bishop Hatto bite Bob blushed Bob's body brood Brown Rat Bull-Frog BUSK Butterfly catch cells CHAPTER COCKCHAFER colony colour cried Bob cried Charley cried Frank Crow curious delightful Driver Ant earth Earwig eating escape eyes fcap feet fellow females FIELD-MOUSE Frogs Gnat ground grow grubs habit half-bound hatched head hedge Hedgehog hole Humble-Bee hundred inquired insects killed kind larvæ laugh lay her eggs Leeches legs little creatures live look MARTIN DOYLE Master microscope Mole nest Nettle never Newt nuts pair plant Redbreast replied Frank Roman Nettle Rook ROUTLEDGE seeds seen sight skin Skylark Snail soon Sparrows species Spider spot Squirrel story SURINAM TOAD tail Teazle tell there's thing thou thousand Toad told tree W. A. HOLDSWORTH Wasp watch Weasel wings Wonder-Field wonderful workers Worm young Zouave
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Сторінка 102 - ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still! To the last point of vision, and beyond Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted strain — 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond — Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to...
Сторінка 125 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Сторінка 102 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Сторінка 125 - An' naething, now, to big a new ane, O' foggage green ! An' bleak December's winds ensuin', Baith snell and keen ! Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, An' weary winter comin' fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, 'Till, crash ! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o...
Сторінка 57 - So then to his palace returned he, And he sat down to supper merrily, And he slept that night like an innocent man ; But Bishop Hatto never slept again. In the morning, as he...
Сторінка 112 - Thou, in sunny solitudes, Rover of the underwoods, The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass.
Сторінка 125 - The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I backward cast my e'e On prospects drear, An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an
Сторінка 58 - Another came running presently, And he was pale as pale could be. "Fly, my lord bishop, fly!" quoth he, "Ten thousand rats are coming this way, The Lord forgive you for yesterday!" "I'll go to my tower on the Rhine...
Сторінка 92 - ART thou the Bird whom Man loves best, The pious Bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; The Bird that comes about our doors When Autumn winds are sobbing ' Art thou the Peter of Norway Boors Their Thomas in Finland, And Russia far inland?
Сторінка 116 - THE BAG OF THE BEE. About the sweet bag of a bee Two Cupids fell at odds ; And whose the pretty prize should be They vow'd to ask the Gods. Which Venus hearing, thither came, And for their boldness stript them ; And taking thence from each his flame, With rods of myrtle whipt them. Which done, to still their wanton cries, When quiet grown she'd seen them, She kiss'd and wiped their dove-like eyes And gave the bag between them.