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... killing and devouring the prey he requires for his sustenance , but , like the fox , and some of the weasel tribe , kills for the mere pleasure of killing ; and having discovered a nest of eggs or a covey of newly - hatched birds , he ...
... killing and devouring the prey he requires for his sustenance , but , like the fox , and some of the weasel tribe , kills for the mere pleasure of killing ; and having discovered a nest of eggs or a covey of newly - hatched birds , he ...
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... killed three more birds before he rose from his recumbent position . Irish grouse are not only larger and heavier ... kill every bird in it . I have made a bag of twelve or fifteen brace in a day ; but very few mountains with which I ...
... killed three more birds before he rose from his recumbent position . Irish grouse are not only larger and heavier ... kill every bird in it . I have made a bag of twelve or fifteen brace in a day ; but very few mountains with which I ...
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... killed salmon , which I took up , and much wondering at the cause of its transportation to so unlikely a spot , conveyed to Larry . That individual was by no means at a loss to account for an occurrence which had so mystified me : " The ...
... killed salmon , which I took up , and much wondering at the cause of its transportation to so unlikely a spot , conveyed to Larry . That individual was by no means at a loss to account for an occurrence which had so mystified me : " The ...
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... killed some of them ; the bridge isn't fifty yards from the pool ! " " That's thrue , yer ' onner ; and she's a grate weapon , and spreads the shot mighty fine . " " But , Larry , " said Miss O'Hara , " has nothing happened since ? Has ...
... killed some of them ; the bridge isn't fifty yards from the pool ! " " That's thrue , yer ' onner ; and she's a grate weapon , and spreads the shot mighty fine . " " But , Larry , " said Miss O'Hara , " has nothing happened since ? Has ...
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... killed incontinently . * I think he deserved his fate , for I heard afterwards that he had long been a terror to the neighbourhood . It was not an unusual occur- rence for him to take up a position opposite the great iron gates that ...
... killed incontinently . * I think he deserved his fate , for I heard afterwards that he had long been a terror to the neighbourhood . It was not an unusual occur- rence for him to take up a position opposite the great iron gates that ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!