Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Band 2

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Charles Knight
Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1866
 

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Seite 585 - But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses : forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Seite 85 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from...
Seite 85 - I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and so close together, that, could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals.
Seite 85 - ... inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the night, with guns, clubs, long poles, pots of sulphur, and various other engines of destruction. In a few hours they fill many sacks, and load their horses with them. By the Indians, a pigeon roost or breeding-place is considered an important source of national profit and dependence for that season; and all their active ingenuity is exercised on the occasion.
Seite 437 - Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America.
Seite 469 - ... gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm, with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like a wink of derision.
Seite 469 - I expected, a Luidia came up in the dredge, a most gorgeous specimen. As it does not generally break up...
Seite 49 - As for the generation of the basilisk, that it proceedcth from a cock's egg, hatched under a toad or serpent, it is a conceit as monstrous as the brood itself.
Seite 591 - It certainly would do so, if, immediately after drinking his fill, ho were galloped hard, but not if he were suffered to quench his thirst more frequently when at rest in the stable. The horse that has free access to water will not drink so much in the course of a day as another who, to cool his parched mouth, swallows as fast as he can, and knows not when to stop.
Seite 85 - ... to fell them in such a manner, that, in their descent, they might bring down several others ; by which means the falling of one large tree sometimes produced two hundred squabs, little inferior in size to the old ones, and almost one mass of fat.

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