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Page 37
... sing a little . They differ also in their habits , frequenting corn - fields and enclosures rather than the vicinity of water , and generally abound very much where sheep are pastured . The general character of their colouring is ...
... sing a little . They differ also in their habits , frequenting corn - fields and enclosures rather than the vicinity of water , and generally abound very much where sheep are pastured . The general character of their colouring is ...
Page 43
... sing upon the wing like larks , though I should sus- pect , from the diverse shape of the organs of flight , not exactly in the same manner . Here they are very gregarious , frequenting the open country , and are never seen to perch ...
... sing upon the wing like larks , though I should sus- pect , from the diverse shape of the organs of flight , not exactly in the same manner . Here they are very gregarious , frequenting the open country , and are never seen to perch ...
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... sing very like a linnet . - ED . Many species of small birds are liable to be thus affected by feeding much upon hemp - seed ; among others , the field - lark and the wood - lark , but none perhaps so readily as the alp , or " bull ...
... sing very like a linnet . - ED . Many species of small birds are liable to be thus affected by feeding much upon hemp - seed ; among others , the field - lark and the wood - lark , but none perhaps so readily as the alp , or " bull ...
Page 47
... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . * Mr. Ray This curious species , the brake ...
... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . * Mr. Ray This curious species , the brake ...
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... sing its note is short and imperfect , but is continued till about the middle of June . The willow - wrens ( the smaller sort ) ... sings from one of the topmost branches of a tall tree , or perched upon some high pinnacle of a building ...
... sing its note is short and imperfect , but is continued till about the middle of June . The willow - wrens ( the smaller sort ) ... sings from one of the topmost branches of a tall tree , or perched upon some high pinnacle of a building ...
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abound animals appear April April 14 April 22 autumn birds bishop bishop of Winchester blackcap breed brood called canons chaffinches church colour common congeners cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR SIR district ecclesie eggs feed feet female fieldfares flocks forest frequent frost garden genus Gilbert White ground Hanger haunts hedges hill hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects Item July July 13 July 22 June June 22 June 9 known late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March March 26 mentioned migration naturalist nest never night observed parish PENNANT perhaps plumage ponds probably rain remarkable season seems seen Selborne Seleburne Sept showers sings snow sometimes species spot spring stone curlews summer suppose Surrey swallow swift tail titmouse trees village vulgaris weather White wild wings winter woods young
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Page 258 - 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 337 - 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 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Page 187 - For it is supposed that a shrewmouse is 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 179 - As the morning advanced the sun became bright and warm, and the day turned out one of those most lovely ones which no season but the autumn produces ; cloudless, calm, serene, and worthy of the South of France itself.
Page 180 - Every day in fine weather, in autumn chiefly, do I see those spiders shooting out their webs and mounting aloft: they will go off from your finger if you will take them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to the top of the page, and shooting out a web, took its departure from thence. But what I most wondered at was, that it went off with considerable velocity in a place where no air was stirring ; and I am sure that I did not assist it...
Page 1 - The covert of this eminence is altogether beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs.
Page 20 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.
Page 375 - 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 222 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.