The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... Insects seemed to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered ; so that the notion , that bats go I t down chimneys and gnaw men's bacon , seems no improbable 32 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... Insects seemed to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered ; so that the notion , that bats go I t down chimneys and gnaw men's bacon , seems no improbable 32 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... insects , which are found over them in the greatest plenty . As I was going some years ago , pretty late , in a boat from Richmond to Sunbury , on a warm summer's evening , I think I saw myriads of bats between the two places ; the air ...
... insects , which are found over them in the greatest plenty . As I was going some years ago , pretty late , in a boat from Richmond to Sunbury , on a warm summer's evening , I think I saw myriads of bats between the two places ; the air ...
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... insects sufficient to support them there . Some young man , possessed of fortune , health , and leisure , should make an autumnal voyage into that kingdom ; and should spend a year there , investigating the natural history of that vast ...
... insects sufficient to support them there . Some young man , possessed of fortune , health , and leisure , should make an autumnal voyage into that kingdom ; and should spend a year there , investigating the natural history of that vast ...
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... insects , and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched , I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta whisper- ing in the bushes . The country people laugh when you tell them that it is the note of a bird . It ...
... insects , and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched , I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta whisper- ing in the bushes . The country people laugh when you tell them that it is the note of a bird . It ...
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... insects are full of eggs , which they exclude the instant they enter their last state . The water - eft is continually climbing over the brims of the vessel within which we keep it in water , and wandering away ; and people every summer ...
... insects are full of eggs , which they exclude the instant they enter their last state . The water - eft is continually climbing over the brims of the vessel within which we keep it in water , and wandering away ; and people every summer ...
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