 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or...yards before you, as you walk along the road, crying, " Who -are -you, who-who-Avho-are-you." Another bids you," Work-away, work-work-work-away." A third... | |
 | 1826 - 626 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or...work-work-work-away." A third cries, mournfully, " Willy-come-go, Willy- Willy- Willy-come-go." And high up in the country, a fourth tells you to " Whip-poor- Will,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or...yards before you, as you walk along the road, crying, " Who-- are-you, who-who-who-are-you." Another bids you, " Work-away, work-work-work-away." A third... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1828 - 362 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or...work-work-work-away." A third cries, mournfully, " Willy-come-go. Willy- Willy- Willycome-go." And high up in the country, a fourth tells you to " Whip-poor- Will. Whip-whip-whippoor... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1831 - 508 Seiten
...absolutely bewilder the " stranger on his arrival in these parts. The '• most common one sits down close by your " door, and flies, and alights three...four yards " before you, as you walk along the road, cry" ing, who-are-you, who, who, who-are-you. " Another bids you work away, work, work, " work away.... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1832 - 316 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or...you, as you walk along the road, crying, who-are-you, who, who, who-are-you. Another bids you work-away, work, work, work-away. A third cries mournfully,... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1839 - 322 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies and alights three or four yards before you, SECOSD as you walk along the road, crying, " Who-are-you, who-who-who-are-you," Another bids you, "... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1848 - 352 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down by your door, and flies and alights three or four...-willy-willy-come-go.' And high up in the country, a fourth tells you, ' Whippoor Will — whip-whip-whip-poor- Will.' " Ovid has told thee how the owl once boasted the human... | |
 | John Cotton (F.Z.S.) - 1855 - 242 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies and alights three or...you, as you walk along the road, crying, who-are-you, who, who, who-are-you. Another bids you work-away, work, work, work-away. A third cries mournfully,... | |
 | Ramón Páez - 1862 - 544 Seiten
...utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival at these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies and alights three or...yards before you, as you walk along the road, crying, ' Who are you, who, who, who are you ? ' Another bids you, ' Work away, work, work, work away.' A third... | |
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... idea of the moaning of the largest goatsucker in Demerara. Four other species of the goatsucker articulate some words so distinctly, that they have received their names from the sentences they utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival... 
