Birds and bird-life, by F.T. Buckland and other naturalists |
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... hand - like bills ; for you must know that Mr. Mallard is a great dandy ; he has a very beautiful coat of feathers to look after , and as the biped dandy has to dress his whiskers , so Mr. Mallard also has to keep the two jaunty curling ...
... hand - like bills ; for you must know that Mr. Mallard is a great dandy ; he has a very beautiful coat of feathers to look after , and as the biped dandy has to dress his whiskers , so Mr. Mallard also has to keep the two jaunty curling ...
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... , by way of cleaning its plumage , in the same manner as the common fowl . On the other hand , its flight is indeed a lofty one , continued upwards , higher and higher , carolling all the while , till 20 BIRDS AND BIRD - LIFE .
... , by way of cleaning its plumage , in the same manner as the common fowl . On the other hand , its flight is indeed a lofty one , continued upwards , higher and higher , carolling all the while , till 20 BIRDS AND BIRD - LIFE .
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... hand , and threw them some . By this time they had grown so bold , that after a few days ' trial they would catch the nuts thrown towards them — not , as I have seen it mentioned in some book of natural history , with the claw , but ...
... hand , and threw them some . By this time they had grown so bold , that after a few days ' trial they would catch the nuts thrown towards them — not , as I have seen it mentioned in some book of natural history , with the claw , but ...
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... hand " before he ventures into the stubbles , we may almost wonder that so many of them are left to cheer us with their songs in the summer . The sparrows are subject to hardly less persecution than the larks , though they are held in ...
... hand " before he ventures into the stubbles , we may almost wonder that so many of them are left to cheer us with their songs in the summer . The sparrows are subject to hardly less persecution than the larks , though they are held in ...
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... hand amongst the network of legs , and disentangled them , when , to my dismay , out scrambled the whole party , and fluttered off in various directions . What a clatter there was ; doubled in an instant by the voices of the old birds ...
... hand amongst the network of legs , and disentangled them , when , to my dismay , out scrambled the whole party , and fluttered off in various directions . What a clatter there was ; doubled in an instant by the voices of the old birds ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 70 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Seite 144 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Seite 202 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Seite 142 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth.
Seite 26 - Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds...
Seite 22 - Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still!
Seite 232 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Seite 19 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Seite 25 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Seite 29 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.