The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's CalendarGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 416 pages |
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... weeks , prevails the placid calm . At length some drops prelude a change : the sun With ray refracted , bursts the parting gloom , When all the chequer'd sky is one bright glare . Mutters the wind at eve ; th ' horizon round With angry ...
... weeks , prevails the placid calm . At length some drops prelude a change : the sun With ray refracted , bursts the parting gloom , When all the chequer'd sky is one bright glare . Mutters the wind at eve ; th ' horizon round With angry ...
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... weeks . They used to march about in a stately marner , feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest ...
... weeks . They used to march about in a stately marner , feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest ...
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... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which assemble in those parts . But ...
... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which assemble in those parts . But ...
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... weeks , should , at that late season of the year , and from so midlard a county , attempt a voyage to Goree or Senegal , almost as far as the equator ? * I acquiesce entirely in your opinion that , though most of the swallow kind may ...
... weeks , should , at that late season of the year , and from so midlard a county , attempt a voyage to Goree or Senegal , almost as far as the equator ? * I acquiesce entirely in your opinion that , though most of the swallow kind may ...
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... weeks together . A curious fact may here be related of them . A pair of pied wagtails built their nest last summer in a vacuum under a sleeper of the Brighton railway , near the terminus at that place . Trains at all times of the day ...
... weeks together . A curious fact may here be related of them . A pair of pied wagtails built their nest last summer in a vacuum under a sleeper of the Brighton railway , near the terminus at that place . Trains at all times of the day ...
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abound Andalusia animal appear April autumn bats birds of passage birds of prey blackcap breed brood cage called chaffinches cold colour cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR deer district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares flies flight flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost hatched haunt hedges hirundines hirundo hoopoes house-martins inches Indian antelope insects late legs LETTER Linnæus male mandible manner March MARKWICK mentioned migration mild morning naturalist neighbourhood neighbouring nest never night observed pair perhaps pheasant prey probably procured quadrupeds rain remarkable remiges ring-dove rooks says season seems seen SELBORNE showers sing snow soon species spring stone curlew suppose Sussex swallows swarm swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees vast village warm weather White wild wings winter Wolmer wonder woodcocks woods wren young
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