Hidden fields
Books Books
" They hunt about, they plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry it without fail to their master. When the fish is too large, they then give each... "
A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles ... - Page 36
by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831
Full view - About this book

The Oriel readers. First (-Third) infant primer

Oriel readers - 1885 - 244 pages
...their beak by the middle, and carry it without fail to their master. When the fish is too large, they give each other mutual assistance ; one seizes it...and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman stretches out one of his long oars, on which they perch, and, being delivered of...
Full view - About this book

Transactions of the ... Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of ..., Volume 11

Kansas Academy of Science. Meeting - 1889 - 140 pages
...plunge, they rise an hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it •with their beak by the middle, and carry...and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman stretches out one of his long oars, on which they perch, and being delivered of their...
Full view - About this book

Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volume 6

1857 - 598 pages
...plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry...and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman stretches out one of his long oars, on which they perch ; and being delivered of...
Full view - About this book

Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volume 6

1857 - 602 pages
...plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry...and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman stretches out one of his long oars, on which they perch ; and being delivered of...
Full view - About this book

Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumes 66-67

1780 - 826 pages
...mailer. When the filh is too large, they then give each other mutual affiflance t one feizes it by ihe head, the other by the tail, and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boat-man (belches out one of his long oar», on which they perch, and being delivered of...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF