The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesBell and Daldy, 1862 - 426 pages |
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... kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay , neither fit for pasture nor for the plough , yet kindly for hops , which root deep into the freestone , and have their poles and wood for charcoal growing just at hand . This white soil ...
... kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay , neither fit for pasture nor for the plough , yet kindly for hops , which root deep into the freestone , and have their poles and wood for charcoal growing just at hand . This white soil ...
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... kind of terra lapidosa , or hardened clay , as soon as they were exposed to the rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production . In * This path , or bostol , as it is locally called , is an ...
... kind of terra lapidosa , or hardened clay , as soon as they were exposed to the rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production . In * This path , or bostol , as it is locally called , is an ...
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... kind of information to which I have been attached from my childhood . As to swallows ( hirundines rustica ) being found in a torpid state during the winter in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such ...
... kind of information to which I have been attached from my childhood . As to swallows ( hirundines rustica ) being found in a torpid state during the winter in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such ...
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... kind of carrion or offal . The house - martins have eggs still , and squab- young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August ; it was a straggler . Red - starts , fly - catchers , white - throats , and gold ...
... kind of carrion or offal . The house - martins have eggs still , and squab- young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August ; it was a straggler . Red - starts , fly - catchers , white - throats , and gold ...
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... kind which as- semble in those parts . But what struck me most was , that , from the time they began to congregate , for- saking the chimnies and houses , they roosted every night in the osier - beds of the aits of that river . Now this ...
... kind which as- semble in those parts . But what struck me most was , that , from the time they began to congregate , for- saking the chimnies and houses , they roosted every night in the osier - beds of the aits of that river . Now this ...
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Page 80 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 408 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 182 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Page 199 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended.
Page 278 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse ia of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Page 158 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Page 184 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...