Tales of Animals: Comprising Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects |
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... become acquainted with the subject of Animals , a subject which affords more amusing details , and more astonishing facts , and suggests more deep and important reflections , than any other in the whole range of natural science . Acting ...
... become acquainted with the subject of Animals , a subject which affords more amusing details , and more astonishing facts , and suggests more deep and important reflections , than any other in the whole range of natural science . Acting ...
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... becoming more rare , in which human beings are made the victims of his thirst for blood . It is true that he is still ... become the seat of civilized society . I cannot leave this subject without making one obvious remark . The Tiger is ...
... becoming more rare , in which human beings are made the victims of his thirst for blood . It is true that he is still ... become the seat of civilized society . I cannot leave this subject without making one obvious remark . The Tiger is ...
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... become grave , cunning , selfish , long - faced prowlers , going about seeeking what poor rat they may devour ! Yet , to do Puss justice , we could not well do without her . But for her our houses would be overrun with rats and mice ...
... become grave , cunning , selfish , long - faced prowlers , going about seeeking what poor rat they may devour ! Yet , to do Puss justice , we could not well do without her . But for her our houses would be overrun with rats and mice ...
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... a Cat has the ability to charm or fascinate birds in such a manner , that they lose the ability to escape , and thus become an easy prey . This power is probably a faculty of inspiring birds with such terror that 44 TALES OF ANIMALS .
... a Cat has the ability to charm or fascinate birds in such a manner , that they lose the ability to escape , and thus become an easy prey . This power is probably a faculty of inspiring birds with such terror that 44 TALES OF ANIMALS .
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... become stupified and motionless . Montaigne relates the following story in illustration of this characteristic of the Cat . There was at my house , a little while ago , a Cat seen watching a bird upon the top of a tree , and for some ...
... become stupified and motionless . Montaigne relates the following story in illustration of this characteristic of the Cat . There was at my house , a little while ago , a Cat seen watching a bird upon the top of a tree , and for some ...
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abundant Africa AMERICAN BLACK BEAR animal appearance Asia attack beautiful belly bird body breast brown burrows cage called Camel Chamois claws colour common cornac COUNTRIES creature CURIOUS PARTICULARS deer devours domestic domestic turkey Eagle eggs Elephant England Europe EUROPEAN OTTER eyes Fallow Deer favourite feathers feeds feet in length female fish flesh fond fore forests four frequently gray ground HABITS hair head Hippopotamus horns horse hundred Hyæna inches in length inhabits insects killed kind known legs Lion lives Mastodon mouth native nearly neck nest NEWFOUNDLAND DOG night North northern Ourang-outang Panther paws pine marten plumage pounds prey quadrupeds remarkable resembles rivers seen seldom shell skin sometimes South America species spot Squirrel stag strength tail tamed teeth Tiger trees Vulture Whale wild Wild Cat wings winter Wood Thrush woods yellow young
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Page 255 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 255 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 285 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up ; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 256 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 219 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love.
Page 60 - ... of the convent to their assistance. To provide for the chance that the dogs, without human help, may succeed in discovering the unfortunate traveller, one of them has a flask of spirits round his neck, to which the fainting man may apply for support; and another has a cloak to cover him. These wonderful exertions are often successful; and even where they fail of restoring him who has perished, the dogs discover the body, so that it may be secured for the recognition of friends; and such is the...
Page 79 - I am going to yield thee up ? To Europeans, who will tie thee close, — who will beat thee, — who will render thee miserable. Return with me, my beauty, my jewel, and rejoice the hearts, of my children.
Page 9 - ... his face, without the least appearance of fear. The lion, conscious of his strength, remained unmoved at their noisy attempts, and kept his head turned towards us. At one moment the dogs, perceiving his eye thus engaged, had advanced close to his feet, and seemed as if they would actually seize hold of him ; but they paid dearly for their imprudence, for, without discomposing the majestic and steady attitude in which he stood fixed, he merely moved his paw, and at the next instant I beheld two...
Page 59 - Benumbed with cold, weary in the search for a lost track, his senses yielding to the stupifying influence of frost, which betrays the exhausted sufferer into a deep sleep, the unhappy man sinks upon the ground, and the snow-drift covers him from human sight. It is then that the keen scent and the exquisite docility of these admirable dogs are called into action. Though the perishing man lie ten or even twenty feet beneath the snow, the delicacy of smell with which they can trace him offers a chance...
Page 184 - Elevated upon a 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...