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Page vii
... Frost - Snow - storms in the Mountains - Pleasures of the British Fireside - Miseries of the Poor - Continued Frost - Immense destruction of Vermin , Birds , etc. at this season Bird - moping- Walking in frosty weather - Glazed Frost ...
... Frost - Snow - storms in the Mountains - Pleasures of the British Fireside - Miseries of the Poor - Continued Frost - Immense destruction of Vermin , Birds , etc. at this season Bird - moping- Walking in frosty weather - Glazed Frost ...
Page xi
... Frost and Snow- Amusements in Snow - Fireside employments in farmhouses and cottages - Bird - catching - Singing Birds in cages , selfishness of the practice - Daily Way- farers - November , its name - Moles retire to their nests ...
... Frost and Snow- Amusements in Snow - Fireside employments in farmhouses and cottages - Bird - catching - Singing Birds in cages , selfishness of the practice - Daily Way- farers - November , its name - Moles retire to their nests ...
Page 1
... frost also as salt he poureth on the earth , and being con- gealed it lieth on the top of sharp stakes . When the cold north wind bloweth , and the water is congealed into ice , it abideth upon every gathering together of water , and ...
... frost also as salt he poureth on the earth , and being con- gealed it lieth on the top of sharp stakes . When the cold north wind bloweth , and the water is congealed into ice , it abideth upon every gathering together of water , and ...
Page 2
... Frost , keen , biting frost , is in the ground ; and in the air , a bitter , scythe - edged , perforating wind from the north ; or , what is worse , the north - east , sweeps the descending snow along , whirling it from the open fields ...
... Frost , keen , biting frost , is in the ground ; and in the air , a bitter , scythe - edged , perforating wind from the north ; or , what is worse , the north - east , sweeps the descending snow along , whirling it from the open fields ...
Page 7
... FROST - A frost that , day after day , and week after week , makes a steady abode with us , till the beaten roads become dusty as in summer . It every day penetrates deeper into the earth , and farther into our houses ; almost verifying ...
... FROST - A frost that , day after day , and week after week , makes a steady abode with us , till the beaten roads become dusty as in summer . It every day penetrates deeper into the earth , and farther into our houses ; almost verifying ...
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aliis Alpine amongst autumn Azalea banks beauty bees behold birds blue bogs boughs Broad-leaved Butterfly CALENDAR OF BRITISH Chalky Cnicus coast comes April comes Aug comes Dec comes Nov comes Oct Common corn Corn-fields creatures cum mult Curruca delightful Ditches earth eggs Eringo Fieldfare fields flowers forest fresh Fritillary frost Fumitory Gardens Globe-flower goes Feb goes Sept Goosander grass green Haunts Hawkweed heart Hipparchia Hornbeam insects John's-wort larvæ leaves Marsh MARY HOWITT Meadows and pastures Moist month Moth mountains mult Nature nest numbers Orchis Phlox plants pleasant poets Polyommatus pools Primula Purple Rest-Harrow Rhododendron rivers rocks Sandy places Saxifrage Scotland Sea-shore season SELECT CALENDAR snow species Spiræa spirit spring Star of Bethlehem streams summer sweet thou trees tures Viburnum vulgaris Waste ground Watery places White wild Willow winter Woods and hedges Yellow young Zinnia