The natural history and antiquities of Selborne. Standard ed. by E.T. Bennett, revised with additional notes by J.E. Harting1875 |
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... flies , and inhaling the coolness of that element , some belly deep , and some only to mid - leg , they ruminate and solace themselves from about ten in the morning till four in the afternoon , and then return to their feeding . During ...
... flies , and inhaling the coolness of that element , some belly deep , and some only to mid - leg , they ruminate and solace themselves from about ten in the morning till four in the afternoon , and then return to their feeding . During ...
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... fly in the air , and hardly ever touching the ground , but returning still to the same stand for many times together . In quoting the above remark , under the head of Swift , in the second volume of his " British Zoology , " 1768 , p ...
... fly in the air , and hardly ever touching the ground , but returning still to the same stand for many times together . In quoting the above remark , under the head of Swift , in the second volume of his " British Zoology , " 1768 , p ...
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... fly - catchers , white - throats and Reguli non cristati , still appear ; 1 but I have seen no blackcaps lately . I forgot ... flies out of a person's hand . If you gave it any thing to eat , it brought its wings round before the mouth ...
... fly - catchers , white - throats and Reguli non cristati , still appear ; 1 but I have seen no blackcaps lately . I forgot ... flies out of a person's hand . If you gave it any thing to eat , it brought its wings round before the mouth ...
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... flies , which were always rejected , was worthy of observation , and pleased me much . Insects seemed to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered : so that the notion , that bats go down chimneys and gnaw ...
... flies , which were always rejected , was worthy of observation , and pleased me much . Insects seemed to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered : so that the notion , that bats go down chimneys and gnaw ...
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... fly , threw them down and destroyed them , to the regret of the owner , who would have been glad to have preserved such a curiosity in his rookery . I saw the birds myself nailed against the end of a barn , and 1 Cane is a provincial ...
... fly , threw them down and destroyed them , to the regret of the owner , who would have been glad to have preserved such a curiosity in his rookery . I saw the birds myself nailed against the end of a barn , and 1 Cane is a provincial ...
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Page 103 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 389 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Page 346 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Page 237 - Less than archangel ruined, 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 xix - ... 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.
Page 151 - ... anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:* — Into the body of the tree, a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten.
Page 237 - THE summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phenomena ; for, besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smoky fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man.
Page 62 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry...
Page 127 - On this occasion the bird not only clings with its claws, but partly supports itself by strongly inclining its tail against the wall, making that a fulcrum; and, thus steadied, it works and plasters the materials into the face of the brick or stone. But then, that this work may not, while it is soft and green, pull itself down by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast; but by building only in the morning, and by dedicating the...
Page 140 - I found the stubbles and clover-grounds matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three setting-nets drawn one over another.