The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... haunts only the tops of trees in high beechen woods , and makes a sibilous grasshopper - like noise , now and then , at short intervals , shivering a little with its wings when it sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the Regulus non ...
... haunts only the tops of trees in high beechen woods , and makes a sibilous grasshopper - like noise , now and then , at short intervals , shivering a little with its wings when it sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the Regulus non ...
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... haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead , What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; Then be the time to steal adown the vale , And listen to the vagrant † cuckoo's tale ; To hear the clamorous ...
... haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead , What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; Then be the time to steal adown the vale , And listen to the vagrant † cuckoo's tale ; To hear the clamorous ...
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... haunt cold mountainous countries : but I have good reason to suspect since that they may come to us from the westward ; because I hear , from very good authority , that they breed on Dartmoor , and that they forsake that wild district ...
... haunt cold mountainous countries : but I have good reason to suspect since that they may come to us from the westward ; because I hear , from very good authority , that they breed on Dartmoor , and that they forsake that wild district ...
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... haunting the sides of ponds and rivers where there is covert , and the reeds and sedges of moors . The country people in some places call it the sedge - bird . It sings incessantly night and day during the breeding - time , imi- tating ...
... haunting the sides of ponds and rivers where there is covert , and the reeds and sedges of moors . The country people in some places call it the sedge - bird . It sings incessantly night and day during the breeding - time , imi- tating ...
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... haunt . Again ; I knew a lover of setting , an old sportsman , who has often told me that soon after harvest he has frequently taken small coveys of partridges , consisting of cock - birds alone ; these he pleasantly used to call old ...
... haunt . Again ; I knew a lover of setting , an old sportsman , who has often told me that soon after harvest he has frequently taken small coveys of partridges , consisting of cock - birds alone ; these he pleasantly used to call old ...
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