The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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... seen on the surface . In the classes where a liberty of choice exists , and at the time of life when the most entire freedom is possible , this midsummer side of English character is that which fascinates and animates the great majority ...
... seen on the surface . In the classes where a liberty of choice exists , and at the time of life when the most entire freedom is possible , this midsummer side of English character is that which fascinates and animates the great majority ...
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... seen , on such occasions , eels and other fish of a considerable size taken out ; and I have seen , too , fishes frozen up in solid ice , and apparently dead , on being gradually thawed recover their animation . The small birds are ...
... seen , on such occasions , eels and other fish of a considerable size taken out ; and I have seen , too , fishes frozen up in solid ice , and apparently dead , on being gradually thawed recover their animation . The small birds are ...
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... seen marching forth with his gun to slay his quota of red- wings , field - fares , etc. , which now become pas- sive from cold and hunger . Let all good peo- ple , who value their persons , keep at a distance from suburban hedges ; for ...
... seen marching forth with his gun to slay his quota of red- wings , field - fares , etc. , which now become pas- sive from cold and hunger . Let all good peo- ple , who value their persons , keep at a distance from suburban hedges ; for ...
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... seen in every garden , and under every rick ; and with a sieve , a stick , and a string , drawn through a window or a keyhole , he is standing ready to pounce upon them . Not even night , with its deepest shades , can protect them at ...
... seen in every garden , and under every rick ; and with a sieve , a stick , and a string , drawn through a window or a keyhole , he is standing ready to pounce upon them . Not even night , with its deepest shades , can protect them at ...
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... seen to issue from their se- cret dormitories , to dance in the long withheld rays of the sun . I have seen the leaves of the primrose shooting up vigorously beneath the warm hedges at such times ; and moles , feeling the ground ...
... seen to issue from their se- cret dormitories , to dance in the long withheld rays of the sun . I have seen the leaves of the primrose shooting up vigorously beneath the warm hedges at such times ; and moles , feeling the ground ...
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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