The Natural History of Selborne, Том 1Bell and Dadly, 1868 |
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... soon as they were exposed to the rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production . In This path , or bostol , as it is locally called , is an oblique cutting , running up the north - east side ...
... soon as they were exposed to the rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production . In This path , or bostol , as it is locally called , is an oblique cutting , running up the north - east side ...
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... soon as they began blacking , they were reduced to about fifty head , and * Waltham blacks were broken men , sometimes political refugees , at others professional robbers , and the off - scouring of society , who took to the forest ...
... soon as they began blacking , they were reduced to about fifty head , and * Waltham blacks were broken men , sometimes political refugees , at others professional robbers , and the off - scouring of society , who took to the forest ...
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... soon settle again in heaps , and pulling their feathers and lifting up their wings to admit the sun , they seem to enjoy the warm situation . Thus they spend the heat of the day , preparing for their migration , and , as it were ...
... soon settle again in heaps , and pulling their feathers and lifting up their wings to admit the sun , they seem to enjoy the warm situation . Thus they spend the heat of the day , preparing for their migration , and , as it were ...
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... soon as they get a few sticks together , a party comes and demolishes the whole . As soon as rooks have finished their nests , and before they lay , the cocks begin to feed the hens , who receive their bounty with a fondling tremulous ...
... soon as they get a few sticks together , a party comes and demolishes the whole . As soon as rooks have finished their nests , and before they lay , the cocks begin to feed the hens , who receive their bounty with a fondling tremulous ...
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... soon as the legs sprout , the tail drops off as useless , and the animal betakes itself to the land . † Merret , I trust , is widely mistaken when he ad- vances that the rana arborea is an English reptile ; it abounds in Germany and ...
... soon as the legs sprout , the tail drops off as useless , and the animal betakes itself to the land . † Merret , I trust , is widely mistaken when he ad- vances that the rana arborea is an English reptile ; it abounds in Germany and ...
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Сторінка 9 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task ; but when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was...
Сторінка 7 - This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Сторінка 22 - Forest in succession for more than a hundred years. This person assures me that his father has often told him that Queen Anne, as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road, did not think the forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard. For she came out of the great road at Lippock...
Сторінка 30 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 193 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...
Сторінка 194 - From out of the side of this bed leaped an animal with great agility that made a most grotesque figure ; nor was it without great difficulty that it could be taken ; when it proved to be a large white-bellied field mouse with three or four young clinging to her teats by their mouths and feet.
Сторінка 191 - I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices; for, as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity ; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only " the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Сторінка 208 - ... the superstructure. On this occasion the bird not only clings with its claws, but partly supports itself by strongly inclining its tail against the wall, making that a fulcrum; and thus steadied, it works and plasters the materials into the face of the brick or stone. But then, that this work may not, while it is soft and green, pull itself down by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast ; but by building only OF SELBORNE.
Сторінка 191 - ... rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.
Сторінка 2 - ... the high wood, and a long hanging wood called the Hanger. The covert of this eminence is altogether beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs. The down, or sheep-walk, is a pleasing parklike spot, of about one mile by half that space, jutting out on the verge of the hill-country, where it begins to break down into the plains, and commanding a very engaging view, being an assemblage of hill, dale, wood-lands,...