Animal life in Europe, Band 72Religious Tract Society, 1870 - 68 Seiten |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abundant animals Badger bank beak beautiful Beech Marten Beetles bird bright brown build burrow Burying Beetles Butterfly called caterpillar Chamois claws Cockchafer colour common Cuckoo dart earth eggs England eyes Fallow Deer favourite feathers feed feelers feet Field Cricket fish flies flight flocks fond Frogs grass green Green Woodpecker grey ground grubs habits hair Hamster Hares hatched head hole House Mouse inches in length insects larvæ leaves legs little creature live Lizards look Mice Mole Moth Mouse mouth nest Newts night numbers Otter pair Partridges Pheasants picture plumage pretty prey Rabbits Rats Raven Redbreast Robin Salamander Sand Lizard seen sharp shell skin Slow-worm Snail Snake sometimes song sort spots spring Starling Stoat streams strong summer Swallow Swan tail teeth thou Titmouse trees Wagtail warm Weasel Wild wings winter woods worms young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 35 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
Seite 67 - THERE is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts. The works of God above, below, Within us and around, Are pages in that book, to show How God Himself is found.
Seite 33 - twas the self-same Power Divine Taught you to sing, and me to shine; That you with music, I with light, Might beautify and cheer the night.
Seite 68 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Seite 14 - His pittance every night, He did it with a jealous look, And, when he could, would bite. His diet was of wheaten bread, And milk, and oats, and straw; Thistles, or lettuces instead, With sand to scour his maw. On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins' russet peel, And when his juicy salads failed, Sliced carrot pleased him well.
Seite 68 - These wait all upon thee ; That thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them they gather : Thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Seite 62 - Where'er he dwells, he dwells alone, Except himself has chattels none, Well satisfied to be his own Whole treasure. Thus, hermitlike, his life he leads, Nor partner of his banquet needs, And if he meets one, only feeds The faster. Who seeks him must be worse than blind, (He and his house are so combined) If, finding it, he fails to find Its master.
Seite 62 - THE SNAIL. To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall, The Snail sticks close, nor fears to fall, As if he grew there, house and all Together. Within that house secure he hides, When danger imminent betides Of storm, or other harm besides Of weather. Give but his horns the slightest touch, His self-collecting power is such, He shrinks into his house, with much Displeasure.
Seite 68 - Thou hidest thy face — they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath — they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy Spirit — they are created : And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Seite 31 - These pretty Babes with hand in hand Went wandering up and down ; But never more they saw the Man Approaching from the Town. In both these stanzas the words and the order of the words in no respect differ from the most unimpassioned conversation. There are words in both, for example, "the Strand,