 I was answered, that this was the season when the swallows, their food failing here, begin to leave us, and return to the country, wherever it be, from whence they came ; and that this being the nearest land to the opposite coast, and the wind contrary,...  Suffolk, Or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and ... - Page 335by Frederic Shoberl - 1818 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Defoe - 1762 - 424 pages
...oppoftte Coaft, and the Wind contrary, they were waiting for a Gale, and might be faid to be Wind bound. This was more evident to me, when in the Morning I found the Wind had come about to the Northweft in the Night, and there was not one Swallow to be feen. Certain it is, that the Swallows... | |
 | George Edwards - 1770 - 286 pages
...oppofite coaft, and the wind contrary, they ar« waiting for a gale, and may be faid to be wind bound, ** This was more evident to me, when in the morning I found the wind had come about to the north-weft in the night, and there was not one Swallow to be feen. " Certain it is, that the Swallows... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 1036 pages
...contrary, they were waiting for a gale, and might be said to be wind-bound. This was more evident tome, when in the morning I found the wind had come about...This passing and repassing of swallows is observed no where so much as on this eastern coast, namely from above Harwich to Winterton-ness in Norfolk.... | |
 | 1818 - 400 pages
...and might be said to be wind-bound. This was more evident to me when I found, that, in the morning, the wind had come about to the north-west in the night, and there was not one swallow to be seen.' ' To the SWALLOW. Twittering tenant of the sky, Whither, whither wilt thou fly? Summer blithely frolics... | |
 | 1840 - 520 pages
...the leads of the church, and covering the tops of several houses round about. This led me to inquire what was the meaning of such a prodigious number of...Wintertonness in Norfolk. We know nothing of them any further north ; the passage of the sea being, as I suppose, too broad from FlamboroughHead, and the... | |
 | 1830 - 472 pages
...Great Britain, speaking of Southwold says :—" I was in this place about the beginning of October, and lodging in a house that looked into the church-yard,...This passing and repassing of swallows is observed no where so much as on this eastern coast, namely from above Harwich to Wintertonness in Norfolk. We... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1836 - 296 pages
...and might be said to be wind-bound. This was more evident to me, when I found that, in the morning, the wind had come about to the north-west in the night, and that not one Swallow was to be seen." BLACKCAP. This member of the family of the Warblers is about... | |
 | Robert Wake - 1839 - 462 pages
...arrival and embarkation, when their migratory instinct sends them in quest of sunny quarters. " As I was at this place about the beginning of October,"...night, and there was not one swallow to be seen." But if Southwold be the last, or among the last, of the places where the summer-hunting swallows may... | |
 | William Alfred Dutt - 1901 - 542 pages
...he, ' the weather being too calm or the wind contrary, they are waiting for a gale, for they are all windbound.' This was more evident to me when in the...the night, and there was not one swallow to be seen of near a million, which I believe was there the night before." And then Defoe goes on to ask how the... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Secord - 1924 - 530 pages
...being too calm, or the wind contrary, they are waiting for a gale. . . "This was more evident . . . when in the morning I found the wind had come about...the night, and there was not one swallow to be seen, of near a million, which I believe was there the night before. "How these creatures know that this... | |
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