The American Naturalist, 12. köideEssex Institute, 1878 |
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... remains . After a death the women do no sewing for four days , and the men will not cut wood with an axe for the same period . A mother or wife will bewail the deceased for a number of days and repeat the wailing afterwards at intervals ...
... remains . After a death the women do no sewing for four days , and the men will not cut wood with an axe for the same period . A mother or wife will bewail the deceased for a number of days and repeat the wailing afterwards at intervals ...
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... remains and usually broken . Other property is left about him , differing in amount according to the panic , if any , caused by sickness at the time ; to his whole stock of worldly goods or to the grief of the mourners . The personal ...
... remains and usually broken . Other property is left about him , differing in amount according to the panic , if any , caused by sickness at the time ; to his whole stock of worldly goods or to the grief of the mourners . The personal ...
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... remains whether only organs of a macroscopical fossil or an organism by itself , rightly deserve to be studied with the same industry and endurance , with which their larger fellow organisms are favored ; the more , as we know that the ...
... remains whether only organs of a macroscopical fossil or an organism by itself , rightly deserve to be studied with the same industry and endurance , with which their larger fellow organisms are favored ; the more , as we know that the ...
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... remains of irrigating ditches , which attest the in- důstry and enterprise of this strange , and to our minds , deluded people . These fields are now overgrown with mesquite and this- tles , the latter attract numberless goldfinches ...
... remains of irrigating ditches , which attest the in- důstry and enterprise of this strange , and to our minds , deluded people . These fields are now overgrown with mesquite and this- tles , the latter attract numberless goldfinches ...
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... remains of six fishes . The above incident was called " a sell , " and subjected the writer to some chaffing at a later date . Said a wag , as if in quest of knowledge- " Why does a young qua - bird vomit his dinner upon being disturbed ...
... remains of six fishes . The above incident was called " a sell , " and subjected the writer to some chaffing at a later date . Said a wag , as if in quest of knowledge- " Why does a young qua - bird vomit his dinner upon being disturbed ...
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