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... nest . Gunnery , though somewhat checked , is too rife for curious birds , especially by the river . Some four miles hence there used to be a decoy , which I once saw . I do not know whether the institution survives in the north of ...
... nest . Gunnery , though somewhat checked , is too rife for curious birds , especially by the river . Some four miles hence there used to be a decoy , which I once saw . I do not know whether the institution survives in the north of ...
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... nest at night . Our old Louis XIV . was most courteous to his train of ladies , while others drove them away with . one favoured exception . One hen , too , will be frivolous , always deserting her nest for amusement ; another Her will ...
... nest at night . Our old Louis XIV . was most courteous to his train of ladies , while others drove them away with . one favoured exception . One hen , too , will be frivolous , always deserting her nest for amusement ; another Her will ...
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... still more delightful it was to detect under the thatch of a low outhouse , hidden amid dry oak leaves , a grand ' stolen nest ' of at least a dozen eggs . MARCH LEADEN skies , dry hard atmosphere , with a 42 AN OLD WOMAN'S OUTLOOK.
... still more delightful it was to detect under the thatch of a low outhouse , hidden amid dry oak leaves , a grand ' stolen nest ' of at least a dozen eggs . MARCH LEADEN skies , dry hard atmosphere , with a 42 AN OLD WOMAN'S OUTLOOK.
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... nest close to the house , and the nightingale sang incessantly , from nine in the morning till about eight at night , and again from ten at night till eight in the morning . Then he used to come out on the lawn for his break- fast , and ...
... nest close to the house , and the nightingale sang incessantly , from nine in the morning till about eight at night , and again from ten at night till eight in the morning . Then he used to come out on the lawn for his break- fast , and ...
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... ring round the neck speckled with darkest green and white , so as to give a chess - board effect . It builds in low bushes , the proverbial untidy nest of the dove kind , and is much less common than that hand- some and MAY 85.
... ring round the neck speckled with darkest green and white , so as to give a chess - board effect . It builds in low bushes , the proverbial untidy nest of the dove kind , and is much less common than that hand- some and MAY 85.
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