 ... 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...  Animal biography, or, Popular zoology - Сторінка 241автори: William Bingley - 1829Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 стор.
...to the trunk, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the wood echoed to the heavy blows of the mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the...twigs, which brought her dead to the ground ! " The croaking of the Raven was formerly considered a note of ill omen, — " The Raven croaked as she sat... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 стор.
...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...by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground. • Probably the finest and most stately oak, now growing in the touth-eait of England, ii that til... | |
 | R. E. - 1851 - 464 стор.
...to the heavy blow of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall, but still the bird sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from...the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground. The female bird, it need scarcely be said, is the one upon whom, in the greatest number of cases, devolves... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1851 - 534 стор.
...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...whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.f * The gi eater part of these trees still support the bridge. — Er>. •f- A similar instance... | |
 | 1852 - 58 стор.
...with the heavy blows of the mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam continued to sit. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from...by the twigs which brought her dead to the ground. ... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1853 - 386 стор.
...heavy blow of the beetle or malle 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...whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground-t have been spindled up by the more vigorous trees to great length and uniformity of thickness,... | |
 | 1853 - 428 стор.
...heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam persisted to sit. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest ; and though her maternal affection merited a better fate, she was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her lifeless... | |
 | 1853 - 422 стор.
...heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam persisted to sit. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest ; and though her maternal affection merited a better fate, she was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her lifeless... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 стор.
...to the heavy blows of the beetle and mallet, the tree nodded to its fall, but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from...the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground." Of the raven, Stanley says, in his interesting work on birds — " With us the raven may be called... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 стор.
...to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet ; the tree nodded to the fall; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from...by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground. GILBKRT Wnrra, 1720-1T9S. A SKETCH. The rush-thatch'd cottage on the purple moor, Where ruddy children... | |
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