Birds and bird-life, by F.T. Buckland and other naturalists |
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... passing overhead : these various cries form a natural concert of music , most grateful to the ear of the sportsman , and the lover of Nature in her wildest moods . As the partridge is the natural wild bird that inhabits the dry arable ...
... passing overhead : these various cries form a natural concert of music , most grateful to the ear of the sportsman , and the lover of Nature in her wildest moods . As the partridge is the natural wild bird that inhabits the dry arable ...
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... passing suddenly and vanishing as through a perspective glass . When you shut the doors of this grotto , it becomes on the instant , from a luminous room , a camera - obscura , on the walls of which all the objects of the river , hills ...
... passing suddenly and vanishing as through a perspective glass . When you shut the doors of this grotto , it becomes on the instant , from a luminous room , a camera - obscura , on the walls of which all the objects of the river , hills ...
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... passing northward as far as the borders of the arctic circle , to breed , and thence returning southward to winter , regulated by the severity of the season . In America , the emigrations of the wild swan are bounded by Hudson's Bay THE ...
... passing northward as far as the borders of the arctic circle , to breed , and thence returning southward to winter , regulated by the severity of the season . In America , the emigrations of the wild swan are bounded by Hudson's Bay THE ...
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... passing matters . Their expressive notes give charming indication of their individual feelings . I know precisely what they want , and I never fail to humour them in their harmless fancies . What love do I not receive in return ! Having ...
... passing matters . Their expressive notes give charming indication of their individual feelings . I know precisely what they want , and I never fail to humour them in their harmless fancies . What love do I not receive in return ! Having ...
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... not being finely but coarsely sifted . The small pebbles , bear in mind , are swallowed , and , passing into the gizzard , they aid digestion . Clean water , twice : daily , is needful ; and it should be given 112 BIRDS AND BIRD - LIFE .
... not being finely but coarsely sifted . The small pebbles , bear in mind , are swallowed , and , passing into the gizzard , they aid digestion . Clean water , twice : daily , is needful ; and it should be given 112 BIRDS AND BIRD - LIFE .
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Сторінка 70 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Сторінка 144 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Сторінка 202 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Сторінка 142 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth.
Сторінка 26 - Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds...
Сторінка 22 - 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!
Сторінка 232 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Сторінка 19 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Сторінка 25 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Сторінка 29 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.