Advanced Reading Book: Literary and ScientificThomas Constable and Company, 1860 - 432 Seiten |
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... becomes the pursued.1 To the Black- backed gull , the offal of the beach , the body of a dead pig , or the carcase of a dead horse , furnishes an acceptable banquet . herring - gull , the carrion crow , the grey crow , and the raven ...
... becomes the pursued.1 To the Black- backed gull , the offal of the beach , the body of a dead pig , or the carcase of a dead horse , furnishes an acceptable banquet . herring - gull , the carrion crow , the grey crow , and the raven ...
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... become , as the Dead Sea is , saturated with salt , and , therefore , unsuitable for the habitation of many fish . " The sea - shells and marine insects afford the required com- pensation . They are the conservators of the ocean . As ...
... become , as the Dead Sea is , saturated with salt , and , therefore , unsuitable for the habitation of many fish . " The sea - shells and marine insects afford the required com- pensation . They are the conservators of the ocean . As ...
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... become hard or crust - like . He generally at such times stays at home , and keeps quiet , as if aware that his usual armour no longer protects him from injury . It is a great pleasure to children at such times , to take the defenceless ...
... become hard or crust - like . He generally at such times stays at home , and keeps quiet , as if aware that his usual armour no longer protects him from injury . It is a great pleasure to children at such times , to take the defenceless ...
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... become as large and as useful in every respect as the one that was there at first . ( Crabs , after they leave the egg , swim about , and are quite different in shape and appearance from what they afterwards become . Some of them are ...
... become as large and as useful in every respect as the one that was there at first . ( Crabs , after they leave the egg , swim about , and are quite different in shape and appearance from what they afterwards become . Some of them are ...
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... become in- jurious . The common Shore crab is one of those creatures ; it is one of a large body of scavengers , appointed to perform a certain duty , and by doing it , becomes the means of conferring a great benefit on larger animals ...
... become in- jurious . The common Shore crab is one of those creatures ; it is one of a large body of scavengers , appointed to perform a certain duty , and by doing it , becomes the means of conferring a great benefit on larger animals ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acrogenous animals appear Ariste attraction beautiful becomes birds blood body boiling bones brain called calyx capitalist carbonic acid centre cerebellum cerebrum chyle clothing clouds colour common cotyledons countries crab earth electric current electricity enable fingers flowers fluid fruit give glass grow hand heat hence hermit crab increase iron James Goodfellow labour leaves less lesson light limbs live looking-glass machinery matter means metal mind molluscs monocotyledonous motion muscles nature needle nerve organs ovary pass piece pistil plants possess present produce profit Prohibitor quadrupeds quantity rays reflected retina round rubbed SECT seed seen shell side skin social economy sound species spinal cord stalk stamens stem substance suppose surface things thou tion tree tube vapour vegetable vertebral column vessel Vitreous humour wages whelk whilst words workmen zinc
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 365 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Seite 362 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Seite 370 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Seite 408 - In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the Gods see everywhere.
Seite 377 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple...
Seite 366 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Seite 360 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent That day he overcame the Nervii :l — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Seite 388 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! ii.
Seite 363 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell $ And,— when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention...
Seite 388 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...