Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West HighlandsW. Paterson, 1883 - 417 páginas |
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... usual meteorological characteristics ; yet true it is , and of a verity that so it is , for here , as elsewhere , the heat was for many consecutive weeks intense , and the parching drought and fierce glare of a summer's sun from a ...
... usual meteorological characteristics ; yet true it is , and of a verity that so it is , for here , as elsewhere , the heat was for many consecutive weeks intense , and the parching drought and fierce glare of a summer's sun from a ...
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... usual haunts ? Such an hypothesis could be seriously entertained for a moment only to be rejected . Could it be owing to any cyclical meteoro- logical changes , or to anything anomalous in the order of the seasons ? Admitting that ...
... usual haunts ? Such an hypothesis could be seriously entertained for a moment only to be rejected . Could it be owing to any cyclical meteoro- logical changes , or to anything anomalous in the order of the seasons ? Admitting that ...
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... lad sitting patiently in front of a cottage , the door of which was shut and locked . The youngsters , rather better dressed than usual , had CURE FOR RINGWORM . 75 come from a considerable distance 74 NETHER LOCHABER .
... lad sitting patiently in front of a cottage , the door of which was shut and locked . The youngsters , rather better dressed than usual , had CURE FOR RINGWORM . 75 come from a considerable distance 74 NETHER LOCHABER .
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... usual place of honour on the corner of its owner's pillow , greatly to his annoyance you may believe , and not a little to the surprise and consternation of his amiable bedfellow . Then , and for weeks afterwards , all search for the ...
... usual place of honour on the corner of its owner's pillow , greatly to his annoyance you may believe , and not a little to the surprise and consternation of his amiable bedfellow . Then , and for weeks afterwards , all search for the ...
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... usual , though the month was April , when they should have been in all respects at their best and in full and free song . You may be sure , by the way , that we were not a little pleased with a paragraph which appeared the other day ...
... usual , though the month was April , when they should have been in all respects at their best and in full and free song . You may be sure , by the way , that we were not a little pleased with a paragraph which appeared the other day ...
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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