Sights in spring (summer, autumn, winter).1844 |
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... sometimes four inches long ; while in dry , poor soils , it is often not more than half an inch , or even less . On the tops of walls , where it may occasionally be seen , or on dry , barren WHEAT . heaths , the stem , instead of rising.
... sometimes four inches long ; while in dry , poor soils , it is often not more than half an inch , or even less . On the tops of walls , where it may occasionally be seen , or on dry , barren WHEAT . heaths , the stem , instead of rising.
Página 109
... sometimes tread with safety , or see crowned with a plenteous harvest , the spot which our grandsires remember to have been covered with water . It is not intended by these statements , that the mere decomposition of grasses and rushes ...
... sometimes tread with safety , or see crowned with a plenteous harvest , the spot which our grandsires remember to have been covered with water . It is not intended by these statements , that the mere decomposition of grasses and rushes ...
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... sometimes found resting on solid rocks , and in such situations the accumulation has been very gradual , especially during that period when the lichens and mosses were , by their annual growth and decay , forming a soil for the more ...
... sometimes found resting on solid rocks , and in such situations the accumulation has been very gradual , especially during that period when the lichens and mosses were , by their annual growth and decay , forming a soil for the more ...
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... sometimes before they are rooted , to send off runners also , as if they could not otherwise escape far enough from the mother plant . Another instance of this kind occurs in the violet , which is here mentioned because practical ...
... sometimes before they are rooted , to send off runners also , as if they could not otherwise escape far enough from the mother plant . Another instance of this kind occurs in the violet , which is here mentioned because practical ...
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... sometimes departs the day after the third . In hives left to themselves , fifteen or eighteen days are usually sufficient for throwing off the four swarms , if the weather continues favourable . A swarm is never seen except when the sun ...
... sometimes departs the day after the third . In hives left to themselves , fifteen or eighteen days are usually sufficient for throwing off the four swarms , if the weather continues favourable . A swarm is never seen except when the sun ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abound anthers appear aquatic beauty birds blossoms botanist BOTANY bright bush called caterpillar catkin chalk chesnut Cicada circles of branches colour common corn creature currant decay double flowers drooping earth eggs favourable fields florists fruit garden gooseberry graceful grafted grain grass ground grow growth harvest heat hive Imbrowned insects instance lake leaf leafy less lily limestone mountain mountain ash nature nearly nest nuthatch observed odour osier pass peaches peat petals pistil plants plums poet polarizes the rays poplar produced QUEEN BEE remarkable rich ripening rise roots rose ROSE-LEAF-CUTTER BEE scion Scotland season seed send off runners shade shoots shore snowy white soil South Downs species spot stamens stem STRAWBERRY stream suckers summer surface swarm sweet thee thistle toil trees trunk varieties various vegetable weeping birch wheat WHITE POPLAR wild wild cherry wood yellow young
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Página 155 - In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day...
Página 171 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and, ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright...
Página 186 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Página 138 - Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface.
Página 128 - While the glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Meantime their joyous task goes on apace...
Página 187 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Página 99 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 187 - For man also knoweth not his time : as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Página 129 - Holds by the twisted horns the indignant ram. Behold where bound, and of its robe bereft, By needy man, that all-depending lord, How meek, how patient, the mild creature lies ! What softness in its melancholy face, What dumb complaining innocence appears!
Página 97 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.