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... usually shorter , broader , and less rigid than the former , and the number varies . From the small bone which represents the thumb arise certain short , stiff feathers , lying close on the quills of the primaries , and constituting the ...
... usually shorter , broader , and less rigid than the former , and the number varies . From the small bone which represents the thumb arise certain short , stiff feathers , lying close on the quills of the primaries , and constituting the ...
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... usually retires inland , and occasionally destroys great numbers of young pigs and lambs . At other times , he contents himself with fowl ; and ducks , geese , and gulls fall victims to his insatiable appetite . A vivid picture of the ...
... usually retires inland , and occasionally destroys great numbers of young pigs and lambs . At other times , he contents himself with fowl ; and ducks , geese , and gulls fall victims to his insatiable appetite . A vivid picture of the ...
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... usually formed in some high tuft of trees , and is often so well concealed as not readily to be discovered . This bird is easily tamed , and , when domesticated , will eat any kind of food , either dressed or raw . Le Vaillant saw many ...
... usually formed in some high tuft of trees , and is often so well concealed as not readily to be discovered . This bird is easily tamed , and , when domesticated , will eat any kind of food , either dressed or raw . Le Vaillant saw many ...
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... usually some distinctive appella- tion . Thus , the male of the ger - falcon was called the Jerkin ; of the falcon proper , the Tierce Gentle ; of the goshawk , the Tiercel ; and of the sparrow - hawk , the Musket . The word gentle ...
... usually some distinctive appella- tion . Thus , the male of the ger - falcon was called the Jerkin ; of the falcon proper , the Tierce Gentle ; of the goshawk , the Tiercel ; and of the sparrow - hawk , the Musket . The word gentle ...
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... usually very accessible . It is composed of a few sticks or stalks of heather , loosely and coarsely laid together , and has no lining . The eggs are from three to five in number , of a dark reddish - brown , with darker spots and ...
... usually very accessible . It is composed of a few sticks or stalks of heather , loosely and coarsely laid together , and has no lining . The eggs are from three to five in number , of a dark reddish - brown , with darker spots and ...
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Popular passages
Page 148 - While birds, and butterflies, and flowers, Make all one band of paramours, Thou, ranging up and down the bowers, Art sole in thy employment: A Life, a Presence like the Air, Scattering thy gladness without care, Too blest with any one to pair; Thyself thy own enjoyment.
Page 87 - Wisely regardful of the* embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 148 - Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.
Page 244 - Walking by the seaside in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height perhaps of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space filled with young shrimps...
Page 289 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 294 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 56 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 88 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Page 33 - ... wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 148 - Amid yon tuft of hazel trees, That twinkle to the gusty breeze, Behold him perched in ecstasies, Yet seeming still to hover; There! where the flutter of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over. My dazzled sight he oft deceives— A Brother of the dancing leaves; Then flits, and from the cottage-eaves Pours forth his song in gushes...