The Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1891 - 475 стор. |
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... church and vicarage with a few of the houses lie embosomed among trees in the valley ; beyond these a small wooded park belonging to the residence of White extends to the " Hanger , " or hanging wood , which is a striking feature in ...
... church and vicarage with a few of the houses lie embosomed among trees in the valley ; beyond these a small wooded park belonging to the residence of White extends to the " Hanger , " or hanging wood , which is a striking feature in ...
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... CHURCH AND VICARAGE . VILLAGE PLEYSTOW • • IRON KEY OF ANCIENT CONSTRUCTION STEEL HINGE WITH GRIFFIN ON IT OLD COINS . PAGE III 113 126 · 132 ་ 151 155 171 • 179 · 193 197 205 • 229 240 • 245 . 248 260 292 315 340 340 342 ENCAUSTIC ...
... CHURCH AND VICARAGE . VILLAGE PLEYSTOW • • IRON KEY OF ANCIENT CONSTRUCTION STEEL HINGE WITH GRIFFIN ON IT OLD COINS . PAGE III 113 126 · 132 ་ 151 155 171 • 179 · 193 197 205 • 229 240 • 245 . 248 260 292 315 340 340 342 ENCAUSTIC ...
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... church , is a square piece of ground surrounded by houses , and vulgarly called " The Plestor . " In the midst of this spot stood , in old times , a vast oak , with a short squat body , and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the ...
... church , is a square piece of ground surrounded by houses , and vulgarly called " The Plestor . " In the midst of this spot stood , in old times , a vast oak , with a short squat body , and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the ...
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... church tower early in the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) among the rubbish , which were at first appearance dead , but on being carried towards the fire revived . He told me , that out of his great care to ...
... church tower early in the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) among the rubbish , which were at first appearance dead , but on being carried towards the fire revived . He told me , that out of his great care to ...
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... Church College quadrangle in Oxford , on a very sunny warm morning , a house- martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the 20th of November . At present I know only two species of bats , the comon vespertilio ...
... Church College quadrangle in Oxford , on a very sunny warm morning , a house- martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the 20th of November . At present I know only two species of bats , the comon vespertilio ...
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Сторінка 46 - Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms, and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint...
Сторінка 4 - ... the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the...
Сторінка 297 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Сторінка 3 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. 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 192 - Now a shrew-ash is an ash whose twigs or branches, when gently applied to the limbs of cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shrew-mouse over the part affected : for it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the losa of the use of the limb.
Сторінка 276 - July 2oth inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms ; but was particularly lurid and bloodcoloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense that butchers...
Сторінка 156 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and I think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Сторінка 136 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Сторінка 21 - 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 152 - About the middle of May, if the weather be fine, the martin begins to think in earnest of providing a mansion for its family. The crust or shell of this nest seems to be formed of such dirt or loam as comes most readily to hand, and is tempered and wrought together with little bits of broken straws to render it tough and tenacious. As this bird often builds against a perpendicular wall without any projecting ledge under...