The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, Band 15John Claudius Loudon Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1839 |
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Seite 468 - ... in the corn-ricks, and never allows them either peace or quiet in the sewers and ditches where they take up their abode. That man only, who has seen a weasel go into a corn-stack, can form a just idea of the horror which its approach causes to the Hanoverians collected there for safety and plunder.
Seite 614 - The winepress was of different kinds. The most simple consisted merely of a bag, in which the grapes were put, and squeezed, by means of two poles turning in contrary directions : a vase being placed below to receive the falling juice.
Seite 515 - ... the progress which has been made within the last few years in villa architecture ; notwithstanding the occasional occurrence of such exceptions as that mentioned in the preceding paragraph.