Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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... once established amongst a people . Once let the popular mind become inoculated with error in this shape , and although times may change and the manners of the people may alter , though a new tongue even shall have succeeded the ...
... once established amongst a people . Once let the popular mind become inoculated with error in this shape , and although times may change and the manners of the people may alter , though a new tongue even shall have succeeded the ...
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... once declaring to be of St. Kilda origin , which the man admitted was the case , he having picked it up many years before from an old woman who had spent some time on the island . Of the air , we can only remember that it was a wild ...
... once declaring to be of St. Kilda origin , which the man admitted was the case , he having picked it up many years before from an old woman who had spent some time on the island . Of the air , we can only remember that it was a wild ...
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... once for all , if it be possible , which you like best ; the loud , clear , silvery tinkle of the seed - shelling finch's rich and rapid song ; the liquid and mellifluous warblings of the soft - billed tribes ; or the soul - entrancing ...
... once for all , if it be possible , which you like best ; the loud , clear , silvery tinkle of the seed - shelling finch's rich and rapid song ; the liquid and mellifluous warblings of the soft - billed tribes ; or the soul - entrancing ...
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... once or twice was overlapped for a few minutes by the arch's margin only , lost all its lustre and sheen , and had a burdened anxious aspect , as if the forehead and " face divine " of a mighty intelligence laboured under the shade of ...
... once or twice was overlapped for a few minutes by the arch's margin only , lost all its lustre and sheen , and had a burdened anxious aspect , as if the forehead and " face divine " of a mighty intelligence laboured under the shade of ...
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... once fairly lays hold of the human system , it is , like hydrophobia , quite and utterly incurable . We do not pretend to know anything of the subject , and we allude to it merely to say that we well recollect of hearing , on undoubted ...
... once fairly lays hold of the human system , it is , like hydrophobia , quite and utterly incurable . We do not pretend to know anything of the subject , and we allude to it merely to say that we well recollect of hearing , on undoubted ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admirably amongst animal Appin Ardgour autumn Ballachulish beautiful believe Ben Nevis bird bright called Castle Stalker cave chaffinch CHAPTER cold colour common curious days ago delight district eating eggs evil fact fairy favourite fieldfare Fingalian fish flowers frequently Gaelic glen Glen Nevis Glenevis green hand hazel head heard Hebrides hedgehog hour interesting known labours land least less lively Loch Loch Leven Loch Linnhe Lochaber axe look matter mole moon morning Mortimer Collins mountain neighbourhood neighbouring nest Nether Lochaber never night observed occasion once otter ourselves Outer Hebrides perhaps plant poet potato present probably proper rain rare raven reader recollect round Scotland season seemed seen shores singing song specimen spot spotted crake storm summer superstition thing thistle truth watch water-vole weather West Highlands wild wild-birds wind wing winter wonder