The young naturalist's book of birds |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Aleppo Alexandretta anecdote animals appearance Arab baker beak beautiful bill birds birds of prey black crows blows hard body branch brought cage called capercailzie catch chief mate cock Colonel O'Kelly colour companion cormorant crows curious Damietta dead dogs ducks DUSKEY eagle eating eggs Egypt eyes falcon FALCONRY feathers feet female Finlay fish flesh flight Flocco gannets geese give goose grampuses ground hatched hath hawk head heard HEBRIDES hole hundred Iceland inches island killed king length Lord manner natives nature neck neighbouring nest night Noah Norwegia numbers O'Kelly observed Olaus Magnus ostrich parrot passed peacock perceiving perch picul pigeons plucked plumage prey rachama ravens returned rocks rooks says scream shot sight sometimes soon Spanish dollars sparrow species Spitzbergen stork swallows tail taken thee thought tion told took tree unto vulture wild wings young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة x - Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings, mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...
الصفحة 41 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made : And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
الصفحة 81 - And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
الصفحة 40 - Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
الصفحة 82 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
الصفحة 120 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
الصفحة 22 - In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it : and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar : and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
الصفحة 7 - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy...
الصفحة x - They summ'd their pens ; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect ; there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build : Part loosely wing the region ; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
الصفحة 20 - And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.