A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals: Interspersed with Entertaining Anecdotes, and Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors, to which is Added an Appendix of Allegorical and Fabulous AnimalsBaldwin and Cradock, 1829 - 476 pages |
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... lays eggs . The act of bringing forth young . Belonging to the sparrow kind . Belonging to the breast . Hanging down . Feeding on fishes . Formed to pursue prey . The flexible trunk of the elephant , bee , & c . Divided into four parts ...
... lays eggs . The act of bringing forth young . Belonging to the sparrow kind . Belonging to the breast . Hanging down . Feeding on fishes . Formed to pursue prey . The flexible trunk of the elephant , bee , & c . Divided into four parts ...
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... lay hold of a pole with its paws , and perform various tricks to entertain the multitude , who are highly pleased to see the awk- ward measures of this rugged creature , which it seems to suit to the sound of an instrument , or to the ...
... lay hold of a pole with its paws , and perform various tricks to entertain the multitude , who are highly pleased to see the awk- ward measures of this rugged creature , which it seems to suit to the sound of an instrument , or to the ...
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... lay , she carried the lump of flesh which she had fetched away , and laid it , as she had done the others , before them . When she saw that they refused to eat , she laid her paws first upon one and then upon the other , and endeavoured ...
... lay , she carried the lump of flesh which she had fetched away , and laid it , as she had done the others , before them . When she saw that they refused to eat , she laid her paws first upon one and then upon the other , and endeavoured ...
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... lay perfectly quiet till the sermon began . He then crept to the edge , and overlooking the preacher , imitated his gestures in so grotesque a manner , that the whole congregation were unavoidably excited to laugh . Caubasson ...
... lay perfectly quiet till the sermon began . He then crept to the edge , and overlooking the preacher , imitated his gestures in so grotesque a manner , that the whole congregation were unavoidably excited to laugh . Caubasson ...
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... of a piece of money , which they bring up in their mouths , and lay down at the feet of whom ever sent them ; the best breed has black curly hair and long ears . D THE MASTIFF Is the largest of the whole species. QUADRUPEDS . 67.
... of a piece of money , which they bring up in their mouths , and lay down at the feet of whom ever sent them ; the best breed has black curly hair and long ears . D THE MASTIFF Is the largest of the whole species. QUADRUPEDS . 67.
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Popular passages
Page 298 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 155 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 219 - Wisely regardful of the' embroiling sky, In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 456 - The guarded gold ; so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 179 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 65 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 229 - They summ'd their pens ; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect ; there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region ; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Page 214 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 357 - Address'd his way : not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since ; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that tower'd Fold above fold, a surging maze ; his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes ; With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 462 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed And gather it into thy barn?