The Natural History of SelborneW. Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... strange it is that such a short - winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean ! Some country people in the winter time have every now and then told me that they have seen two or three white larks on our ...
... strange it is that such a short - winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean ! Some country people in the winter time have every now and then told me that they have seen two or three white larks on our ...
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... strange stable without discovering the utmost impatience , and endeavouring to break the rack and manger with his fore feet . He has been known to leap out at a stable - window , through which dung was thrown , after company ; and yet ...
... strange stable without discovering the utmost impatience , and endeavouring to break the rack and manger with his fore feet . He has been known to leap out at a stable - window , through which dung was thrown , after company ; and yet ...
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... strange affection probably was occasioned by that desiderium , those tender maternal feelings , which the loss of her kittens had awakened in her breast ; and by the complacency and ease she derived to herself from the pro- curing her ...
... strange affection probably was occasioned by that desiderium , those tender maternal feelings , which the loss of her kittens had awakened in her breast ; and by the complacency and ease she derived to herself from the pro- curing her ...
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