 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 pages
...LXXIII. MALE AND FEMALE. THIS bird is my greatest favourite of the feathered tribes of our woods. 1 To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...feebly secured against the violence of the storm, as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber, Mrs. Charles Wilkins Webber - Birds - 1854 - 392 pages
...darling Wood Thrush. " You now see before you my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...spirits, when I have listened to its wild notes in our forest, after passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...WOOD THRUSH. FROM THK SAME. Tins bird is my greatest favourite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...listened to its wild notes in the forest, after passing a restloss night in my slender shed, so feebly scoured against the violence of the storm, as to show... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...the grove. THE WOOD-THRUSH. This bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured ngainst the violence of the storm as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...the grove. THE WOOD-THRUSH. This bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...feebly secured against the violence of the storm as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...the grove. THE WOOD-THRUSH. This bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...feebly secured against the violence of the storm as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my droopin<: spirits, when I have listened to its wild notes in the forest, alter passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm... | |
 | Education - 1878 - 274 pages
...Minutes.] THE WOOD THRUSH. This bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...after passing a restless night in my slender shed . . . ; how often as the first glimpses of morning gleamed doubtfully amongst the dusky masses of the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Biography - 1881 - 230 pages
...exposed himself by the enthusiasm with which he followed his exciting pursuit. "How often," he says, " has it revived my drooping spirits when I have listened...wild notes in the forest, after passing a restless nightin my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm as to show me tha futility... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers (Primary) - 1888 - 316 pages
...typical lover of nature. i. THIS bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of the woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping...forest, after passing a restless night in my slender bed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm as to show me the futility of my best efforts... | |
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This bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping spirits, when I have listened to its wild notes in the forest, after passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly... 
