 ... 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
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 стор.
...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...the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.* * We have always found the raven, whether nesting upon a rock or upon a tree, most unapproachable after... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 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. LETTER III. TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQUIRE. HE fossil shells of this district, and sorts of stone, such... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 стор.
...the heavy blow of the butte or mall 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...the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground." But the tallest tree of the neighbourhood is not always chosen as either a building place or a roosting... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1893 - 462 стор.
...the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was fluug from her nest; and, though her parental affection...whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.1 LETTER III. TUB FOSSIL SHELLS AND STONE 01 SELBOKNE. THE fossil shells of this district, and... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1893 - 368 стор.
...to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fa U. ; but still the dam sat OIL At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her iiest ; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the "round.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 266 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. LETTER III. To THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. THE fossil-shells of this district, and sorts of stone, such as... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 стор.
...the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall; but the dam persisted to sit. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and though her maternal affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1897 - 592 стор.
...the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was Hung from her nest ; and, though her parental affection...by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground. LETTER III. TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. THE fossil-shells of this district, and sorts of stone, such as... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1898 - 568 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 her nest ; and, though her parental aifection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.f... | |
 | Gilbert White, Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1900 - 668 стор.
...malle or mallet, — the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it give way, the bird was flung from her nest ; and, though...whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.1 1 Sir William Jardine comments on this curious instance : " We have always found the Raven,... | |
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