The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1879 |
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... becomes tame , if not affectionate , when reclaimed , and its ordinary prey consists of the smaller Passeres . Its " pinion of glossy blue " has become almost proverbial , and a deep ruddy blush suffuses its lower parts ; but these are ...
... becomes tame , if not affectionate , when reclaimed , and its ordinary prey consists of the smaller Passeres . Its " pinion of glossy blue " has become almost proverbial , and a deep ruddy blush suffuses its lower parts ; but these are ...
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... becomes as hard as the boulder which it so much resembles , and it is difficult to cut a shaving from the surface ... become extinct . It is a reed - like grass , which grows in dense tufts from six to ten feet high from stool - like ...
... becomes as hard as the boulder which it so much resembles , and it is difficult to cut a shaving from the surface ... become extinct . It is a reed - like grass , which grows in dense tufts from six to ten feet high from stool - like ...
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... become , so to say , a caste divided into ghotras . Let this caste feign itself to be descended from a common ancestor ( a process of which Sir John Lubbock gives many examples ) , and you have a caste believed to be of common blood ...
... become , so to say , a caste divided into ghotras . Let this caste feign itself to be descended from a common ancestor ( a process of which Sir John Lubbock gives many examples ) , and you have a caste believed to be of common blood ...
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... become typical . The been reprinted in America . Another development of the existence of an elder Faustus cannot , however , be proved ; myth was now at hand - the dramatic . It formed the theme nor can he , as sometimes suggested , be ...
... become typical . The been reprinted in America . Another development of the existence of an elder Faustus cannot , however , be proved ; myth was now at hand - the dramatic . It formed the theme nor can he , as sometimes suggested , be ...
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... become a refuge for vermin . The dry- ing is generally done in highly heated apartments or stoves , and subsequently the feathers are smartly beaten with a stick , and shaken in a sieve to separate all dust and small debris . Bed ...
... become a refuge for vermin . The dry- ing is generally done in highly heated apartments or stoves , and subsequently the feathers are smartly beaten with a stick , and shaken in a sieve to separate all dust and small debris . Bed ...
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