Round the Year: A Series of Short Nature-studiesMacmillan, 1896 - 295 Seiten |
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Round the Year: A Series of Short Nature-Studies L. c. 1842-1921 Miall Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alder angles animals Annual plants antennæ Anthophora appear attached barbules become Bees Beetle Birch Birds Blow-fly body bracts branch bud-scales bulb Butterfly Cabbage White carpels caterpillars catkins cells centre Chamomile claw cold colour comb common cones corm Crocus Crowberry crystals Cuckoo curve dispersal Duckweed earth edge feathers feet female flowers foliage-leaves frond frost grass ground hairs haulm Hazel Hedge-sparrow hollow honey Hymenoptera Insects larva larval skin layer leaf leaves legs light Magnified male Meloe larvæ Moon naturalist Nature nearly nest never Newport observed ovary pair parasitic pistil plants plentiful pollen pupa pupation scale seeds seen sheath shoots side Simulium slope snow snow-crystals species Spiders spring stamens stem summer surface Sycamore Theta thing threads tissues trees tunics turned Willow wind wings winter yellow Yorkshire Fog young Cuckoo
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - The brook alone far-off was heard, And on the board the fluttering urn. And bats went round in fragrant skies, And wheel'd or lit the filmy shapes...
Seite 111 - ... of the nest till it reached the top, where, resting for a moment, it threw off its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained...
Seite 255 - Ray round with flames her disc of seed, And many a rose-carnation feed With summer spice the humming air ; Unloved, by many a sandy bar, The brook shall babble down the plain, At noon or when the lesser wain Is twisting round the polar star ; Uncared...
Seite 255 - BY night we linger'd on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn; And calm that let the tapers burn Unwavering: not a cricket...
Seite 252 - Eagles yelp alone, and leave The monstrous ledges there to slope, and spill Their thousand wreaths of dangling water-smoke, That like a broken purpose waste in air: So waste not thou; but come; for all the vales Await thee; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms.
Seite 111 - ... hatched, in the act of turning out the young hedge-sparrow. " The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The little animal, with the assistance of its rump and wings, contrived...
Seite 255 - O sound to rout the brood of cares, The sweep of scythe in morning dew, The gust that round the garden flew, And tumbled half the mellowing pears! O bliss, when all in circle drawn About him, heart and ear were fed To hear him, as he lay and read The Tuscan poets on the lawn! Or in the all-golden afternoon...
Seite 112 - ... downwards, is very broad, with a considerable depression in the middle. This depression seems formed by nature for the design of giving a more secure lodgment to the egg of the hedgesparrow, or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing...
Seite 253 - His memory long will live alone In all our hearts, as mournful light That broods above the fallen sun, And dwells in heaven half the night.
Seite 254 - One show'd an iron coast and angry waves. You seem'd to hear them climb and fall And roar rock-thwarted under bellowing caves, Beneath the windy wall.