 | Samuel Lockwood - 1888 - 422 стор.
...fatal day arrived when the Raven Tree was to be felled. It was in the month of February, when ravens usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the...inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blow of the beetle, or mall, or mallet; the tree nodded to its fall, but still the dam sat on. At last,... | |
 | 1890 - 882 стор.
...in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when the birds usually sat. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted...the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle, the tree nodded to its fall; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung... | |
 | 1890 - 880 стор.
...remember the tragic story. " The ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, until the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when the birds usually sat. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 стор.
...undertaking to be too hazardous : so the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, — the wedges were inserted into the opening,... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 стор.
...naturalist White of Selborne speaks so pathetically and poetically about, when he says, " The fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1893 - 368 стор.
...usually sit. The saw was applied to the but, the wedges were inserted into the opening, THE RAVIN. the woods echoed 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,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 620 стор.
...fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt,...into the opening, — the woods echoed to the heavy blow of the beetle or mall or mallet, — the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 стор.
...February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the trunk, the wedges were inserted in the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of...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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1900 - 668 стор.
...undertaking to be too hazardous : so the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, — the wedges were inserted into the opening,... | |
 | George Albemarle Bertie Dewar - 1900 - 416 стор.
...It was the month of February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt — then wedges were inserted into the opening — the woods echoed to the heavy blow of the beetle or malle or mallet, — the tree nodded to its fall : but still the daw sat on.... | |
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... the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit. 
