Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 2. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1867 |
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... round as an auger - hole , leads in a slanting direction to an open cavity , neatly lined with dry leaves , blades of grass , and moss , a bed soft as eider down , wherein the " Store - keeper " sleeps . In an adjoining opening , on a ...
... round as an auger - hole , leads in a slanting direction to an open cavity , neatly lined with dry leaves , blades of grass , and moss , a bed soft as eider down , wherein the " Store - keeper " sleeps . In an adjoining opening , on a ...
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... round the lodge fire ; everything becomes mysterious that is not understood ; the very language of the Red- man is a tangled chaos of symbols , figures , and metaphors . A prominent performer in all their legends is a terrible old woman ...
... round the lodge fire ; everything becomes mysterious that is not understood ; the very language of the Red- man is a tangled chaos of symbols , figures , and metaphors . A prominent performer in all their legends is a terrible old woman ...
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... round it . His hopes sank as he neared it , for he found the covering very moist with albumen flowing freely from a gaping aperture in the shell ; however , as he remarked , there it was , though unfortunately , it had been laid by a ...
... round it . His hopes sank as he neared it , for he found the covering very moist with albumen flowing freely from a gaping aperture in the shell ; however , as he remarked , there it was , though unfortunately , it had been laid by a ...
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... round dark eyes . When he has more food than he wants , he stores it up in a corner . Although the outer front toe ... rounded hole in the middle , and then having procured a mouthful of sand laid it over the looser materials to cement ...
... round dark eyes . When he has more food than he wants , he stores it up in a corner . Although the outer front toe ... rounded hole in the middle , and then having procured a mouthful of sand laid it over the looser materials to cement ...
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... round , and presses it until it becomes a shapeless mass of juicy pulp . The mandibles contain the poison , and the poison duct may be traced to the extremity of the claw , if the latter be sufficiently bleached before mounting . The ...
... round , and presses it until it becomes a shapeless mass of juicy pulp . The mandibles contain the poison , and the poison duct may be traced to the extremity of the claw , if the latter be sufficiently bleached before mounting . The ...
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