Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and ManagementGardeners' Chronicle, 1848 - 345 Seiten |
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... males of this species vary in disposition ; that , as the human race has pro- duced individuals of such diverse tempers , so the Peacock family includes individuals of different degrees of blood- thirstiness . My own bird , three years ...
... males of this species vary in disposition ; that , as the human race has pro- duced individuals of such diverse tempers , so the Peacock family includes individuals of different degrees of blood- thirstiness . My own bird , three years ...
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... male and female were valued at 1,000 drachmæ " -which , if we take the drachma at 7 d . , is 317. 58. the pair , a high price certainly , but not more than a pair of very rare birds , such as the Ocellated Turkey , or the Apteryx ...
... male and female were valued at 1,000 drachmæ " -which , if we take the drachma at 7 d . , is 317. 58. the pair , a high price certainly , but not more than a pair of very rare birds , such as the Ocellated Turkey , or the Apteryx ...
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... male is capable of increasing his kind a year earlier than the female ; so that a brood may be obtained from an old hen , and a cock- bird in his second year . In selecting a pair , the great thing is to make sure of having two birds of ...
... male is capable of increasing his kind a year earlier than the female ; so that a brood may be obtained from an old hen , and a cock- bird in his second year . In selecting a pair , the great thing is to make sure of having two birds of ...
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... male at the elbow , trusting to their mutual attachment to keep the less - maimed bird from deserting her mate . But however it be done , let it be set about in a workmanlike manner ; no chopping nor hacking , nor c 2 THE MUTE SWAN . 19.
... male at the elbow , trusting to their mutual attachment to keep the less - maimed bird from deserting her mate . But however it be done , let it be set about in a workmanlike manner ; no chopping nor hacking , nor c 2 THE MUTE SWAN . 19.
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... male bird . A case is recorded in which such a visit , made in the July or August of one year , was available for the eggs of the succeeding April . The time when the hens require this change of air in spring , may be known by their ...
... male bird . A case is recorded in which such a visit , made in the July or August of one year , was available for the eggs of the succeeding April . The time when the hens require this change of air in spring , may be known by their ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Seite 240 - And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Seite 26 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Seite 139 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Seite 167 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Seite 199 - ... would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality...
Seite 140 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Seite 200 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Seite 13 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Seite 327 - Women born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold, says Waller — and Lovelace too!
Seite 257 - tried many experiments by breeding in-and-in, upon dogs, fowls, and pigeons; the dogs became from strong spaniels, weak and diminutive lapdogs; the fowls became long in the legs, small in the body, and bad feeders.