| Samuel Williams - 1809 - 528 Seiten
...the swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down, on that account. About the first of May, the swallows came out of it,...and were soon dispersed : About half an hour before sun down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending... | |
| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 Seiten
...thought the Swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down on that account. About the first of May the Swallows came out of it...before sun-down they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending like a stream into a hole about sixty feet from... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 Seiten
...thought the swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down on that account. About the first of May the swallows came out of it...before sun-down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending like a stream into a hole about sixty feet from... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 Seiten
...thought the Swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down on that account. About the first of May the Swallows came out of it...before sun-down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending like a stream into a hole about sixty feet from... | |
| 1843 - 396 Seiten
...his error.) About the first of May the swallows came out of the tree in large numbers, about mid-day, and soon returned. As the weather grew warmer, they came out in the morning, with a loud noise, and soon dispersed. About half an hour before sunset (he says) they returned in MIL LI o NS, circling... | |
| 1882 - 420 Seiten
...the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down, on that account. About the first of AJay, the Swallows came out of it, in large numbers, about...and were soon dispersed; about half an hour before sun down, they returned in millions, circulating two or three times round the tree, and then descending... | |
| 1882 - 418 Seiten
...the Swallows tarried in the tree through the winter, and avoided cutting it down, on that account. About the first of May, the Swallows came out of it,...they came out in the morning with a loud noise, or ioar, and were soon dispersed; about half an hour before sun down, they returned in millions, circulating... | |
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