Notes on Shoeing HorsesSmith, Elder and Company, 1861 - Всего страниц: 79 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 13
Стр. 41
... favourite food . He watches until an unfortunate oyster gapes . wide enough ; then in goes his strong beak , before the oyster has time to shut up the door of his house ; and soon out comes the poor oyster , whom the bird 42 The Lapwing ...
... favourite food . He watches until an unfortunate oyster gapes . wide enough ; then in goes his strong beak , before the oyster has time to shut up the door of his house ; and soon out comes the poor oyster , whom the bird 42 The Lapwing ...
Стр. 46
... favourite food is fish of all accessible kinds and water reptiles . He will also attack water - rats and mice , and young aquatic birds . Now the odour of his legs seems to attract the fish , thus bringing his prey within easy reach ...
... favourite food is fish of all accessible kinds and water reptiles . He will also attack water - rats and mice , and young aquatic birds . Now the odour of his legs seems to attract the fish , thus bringing his prey within easy reach ...
Стр. 48
... favourite dish at the tables of our forefathers ; but now it is discarded because its flavour is fishy . But some say , that if it is kept long enough , it is tender and good . Edith . Ought we to consider the stork an inhabitant or a ...
... favourite dish at the tables of our forefathers ; but now it is discarded because its flavour is fishy . But some say , that if it is kept long enough , it is tender and good . Edith . Ought we to consider the stork an inhabitant or a ...
Стр. 57
... favourite food is water insects : these they obtain by boring in the mud . They are very fond too of grubs , found under dead leaves . SNIPE . 58 Judcock . in others different . It is a. Edith . The snipe is in some respects like the ...
... favourite food is water insects : these they obtain by boring in the mud . They are very fond too of grubs , found under dead leaves . SNIPE . 58 Judcock . in others different . It is a. Edith . The snipe is in some respects like the ...
Стр. 72
... favourite birds , and a rival of the nightingale , for he glads my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing . He is the joy- ous prophet of the year , the harbinger of the best * winter is season * unknown to him ...
... favourite birds , and a rival of the nightingale , for he glads my sense of seeing as much as the other does my sense of hearing . He is the joy- ous prophet of the year , the harbinger of the best * winter is season * unknown to him ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
admirable albatross animals beak beauty bill Bitterns blackbird breast breed Buffon cage called caterpillars Charlotte clay colour COMMON GUILLEMOT companion crane delight destroy downy Downy Woodpecker eagle Edith eggs England farmers feathered tribes feed feet female fish Flamborough fond fowls Freddie friends garden Golden Oriole Goldsmith on Rooks gulls habits Harrison Weir heron hole insects insipid existence Kakopo keep kind labour lapwing lark little birds living London lovely feathered Mary mate melancholy moss naturalist neighbouring nest never night nightingale numbers nut-hatch observe once pair Papa parrot pigeons plaster plover plumage poet poor poultry puffin quadrupeds rapturous song remarkable RICHARD WILTON Robert Pollok rock rooks round says sea-birds seems seen sings sometimes song song-thrush songsters species Spoonbill sticks stone-chat suppose swallow Swallow's Nest swan sweet Tawny Owl thrush told Tree Sparrow WHIN-CHAT wings winter wood woodpecker young
Популярные отрывки
Стр. 15 - And I had done a hellish thing. And it would work 'em woe: For all averred. I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Стр. 14 - Came to the mariner's hollo ! In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white Moon-shine.' 'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus! — Why look'st thou so?
Стр. 14 - The Sun now rose upon the right Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day, for food or play, Came to the mariners...
Стр. 117 - The astonished mother finds a vacant nest, By the hard hand of unrelenting clowns Robb'd, to the ground the vain provision falls ; Her pinions ruffle, and, low-drooping, scarce Can bear the mourner to the poplar shade ; Where, all abandon'd to despair, she sings Her sorrows through the night...
Стр. 36 - They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment of soldiers ; and are classed with the greatest order, the young birds being in one situation, the moulting birds in another, the sitting hens in a third, the clean birds in a fourth, &c.
Стр. 118 - Her sorrows through the night ; and, on the bough, Sole-sitting, still at every dying fall Takes up again her lamentable strain Of winding wo ; till, wide around, the woods Sigh to her song, and with her wail resound...
Стр. 90 - I have often amused myself," says he, "with observing their plans of policy from my window in the Temple, that looks upon a grove where they have made a colony in the midst of a city. At the commencement of spring the rookery, which, during the continuance of winter, seemed to have been deserted, or only guarded by about five or six, like old soldiers in a garrison, now begins to be once more frequented; and in a short time, all the bustle and hurry of business will be fairly commenced.
Стр. 79 - constrained to drag out an insipid existence in boring the bark and hard fibres of trees to extract his prey ;" for he frequently finds in the loose mouldering ruins of an old stump (the capital of a nation of pismires) more than is sufficient for the wants of a whole week. He cannot be said to " lead a mean and gloomy life, without an intermission of labour...