 | 1835 - 430 páginas
...; the bee is on the wing ; the wolf with his tail dropped is sneaking a'wav to his covert with his felon tread of one who is conscious that he has disturbed...the males strutting and erecting their plumage like a peacock, and uttering a long, loud, mournful note, someYCL. II. 19 thing like the cooing of the dove,... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 páginas
...interspersed like islands, or the solitary treo, which stands alone in the blooming desert. If it is in the spring of the year, and the young grass has...pairs, like the domestic fowl, cover the whole surface. When the eye roves off from the green plain, to the groves, or points of timber, these also are found... | |
 | James Hall - 1848 - 282 páginas
...rising from behind a distant swell of the plain, and glittering upon the dew-drops, no scene can be mote lovely to the eye. The deer is seen grazing quietly...the domestic fowl, cover the whole surface — the mates strutting and erecting their plumage like the peacock, and uttering a long, loud, mournful note,... | |
 | 1855 - 624 páginas
...is seen grazing quietly upon the plain ; the bee is on the wing ; the wolf, with his tail dropped, is sneaking away to his covert with the felon tread...the males strutting and erecting their plumage like a peacock, and uttering a long, loud, mournful note, something like the cooing of the dove, but resembling... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 páginas
...young grass has just covered the ground with a carpet of delicate green, and especially if the suii is rising from behind a distant swell of the plain,...pairs, like the domestic fowl, cover the whole surface. 4. When the eye roves off from the green plain to the groves, or points of timber, these also are found... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1858 - 678 páginas
...deer is seen grazing quietly upon the plain ; the bee is on the wing ; the wolf with his tail dropped is sneaking away to his covert with the felon tread...the males strutting and erecting their plumage like a peacock, and uttering a long, loud, mournful note, something like the cooing of the dove, but resembling... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 páginas
...the plain ; the bee is on the wing ; the wolf, with his tail drooped, is sneaking away to his coverl with the felon tread of one who is conscious that...pairs, like the domestic fowl, cover the whole surface. 4. When the eye roves off from the green plain to the groves, or points of timber, these also are found... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 páginas
...rising from behind a distant swell of tbe plain, and glittering upon the dew-drops, no scene can be mora lovely to the eye. The deer is seen grazing quietly...pairs, like the domestic fowl, cover the whole surface. 4. When the eye roves off from the green plain to the groves, or points of timber, these also are found... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 páginas
...is seen grazing quietly upon the plain ; the bee is on the wing ; the wolf, with his tail dropped, is sneaking away to his covert, with the felon tread of one who is conscious th.it he has disturbed the peace of nature ; and the grouse, feeding in flocks, or in pairs, like the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 páginas
...is seen grazing quietly upon the plain ; the bee is on the wing ; the wolf, with his tail dropped, is sneaking away to his covert, with the felon tread...mournful note, something like the cooing of the dove, but 5 resembling still more the sound produced by passing a rough finger boldly over the surface of a tambourine.... | |
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... rising from behind a distant swell of the plain, and glittering upon the dew-drops, no scene can be more lovely to the eye. The deer is seen grazing quietly upon the plain ; the bee is on the wing ; the wolf, with his tail... 
