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... of wonderful green hither and thither among the trees and rousing all the birds to tu- multuous rejoicings, a rousing day, a clamatory insistent day,... ... a topic. “No, no,” said Ethel, with her eye down a vista of innu- merable birds. “But I must,” said Lewisham. “You had better choose it, or I shall g... ...ple were greatly exercised by these instructions. One fragment was called “Bird Song,” one “Cloud Shadows,” and one “Eryngium,” but Lewisham thought t... ...e are happy 154 Love and Mr. Lewisham men and there are knaves and fools. Hybrids I don’t count. And to my mind knaves and fools are very much alike....

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...e too pro- create strange Centaurs, spectral Puseyisms, monstrous illusory Hybrids, and ecclesiastical Chimeras,—which now roam the earth in a very la... ...t for his very existence; “duck- ing under like a poor unfledged partridge-bird,” as one described it, “before the mower; darting continually from noo... ...m going to send to Blackwood, a humble imi- tation of her Watch and Canary-Bird, entitled The Suit of Armor and the Skeleton.* I am conscious that I a... ...ests. Some also contain accounts of liv- ing things: flies, worms, fishes, birds and four-legged beasts. And some, which are the most, are about men a... ...han he lately was, though he has not been at all laid up. He shoots little birds, and dissects and stuffs them; while I carry a hammer, and break flin...

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...elf known, as he hid his face in a handkerchief of fine Frisian linen, with which he incessantly wiped his brow or his burning lips. With an eye keen ... ... asked those of the mob who had not been able to get into the prison, crowded as it was with the mass of intruders. “Gone, gone,” repeated the man in ... ... or twenty-three thousand days of captivity. Van Baerle, from whose thoughts the three bulbs were never absent, made a snare for catching the pigeons,... ...l the resources of his kitchen, such as it was for eight slivers (sixpence English) a day; and, after a month of unsuccessful attempts, he at last cau... ...ge for his tulip! Day came, without any news; the tulip was not yet in flower. The day passed as the night. Night came, and with it Rosa, joyous and c... ...but, turning to the Prince, continued, — “I have now for twenty years grown tulips at Dort. I have even acquired some reputation in this art; one of m...

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...roclaimed with a shout. Rachel, in hot haste, warned them against tak- ing birds’-nests in general, and that in particular. “Nests are made to be take... ...re made to be taken,” said Francis. “I’ve got an egg of all the Australian birds the Major could get me,” said Conrade, “and I mean to have all the En... ...es.” “Oh, one egg; there’s no harm in taking that; but this nest has young birds.” The young birds must of course be seen, and Rachel stood by with de... ...er. Your Aunt Grace found it gone this morning, and one of the poor little birds dead below. What have you done with the others?” Not a word. “Then I ... ...s only for Conrade’s own sake that I do it. It was a cruel thing to take a bird’s-nest at all, but worse when he knew that his 37 Yo n g e Aunt Grace... ...hy, have not they just made Mariolatry?” “Yes; but they are very severe on hybrids between Latin and Greek.” “It is not worth while to boggle at trifl...

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...one; Maclean in Glencoe answers to Johnstone at Lockerby. And we find such hybrids as Macalexander for Macallister. There is but one rule to be deduce... ... bright stars, and the morning was ushered in with the song of many little birds.’ ‘Aberdeen, July 19 th . ‘I hope, my dear, that you are going out of... ...lighthouse in a designated space of heather and air, through which the sea-birds are still flying. By 9 p.m. the return journey had brought them again... ...-place, from its vicinity to their fishing-grounds. About a dozen of these birds had rested upon the cross- beams, which, in some places, were coated ...

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...ns on one another, and were an assurance to this acute politician that his birds were safe. He preserved game rigor- ously, and the deduction was the ... ...nants. He swarmed with game, and, though he was liberal, his hares and his birds were immensely de- structive: computation could not fix the damage do... ...st buyer, and were not En- glishmen but ‘Germans and Jews, and quakers and hybrids, diligent clerks and speculators, and commercial travellers, who ha... ... partly understand his conduct in after-days, it will be as well to take a bird’seye glance at him through the war. ‘Now,’ said Everard, ‘we shall see... ... ing-pans. Heroes we would have. It happens in war as in wit, that all the birds of wonder fly to a flaring reputation. He that has done one wild thin... ...pinion concerning the episode of eagle and hare, though it was a case of a bird of prey interfering with an object of the chase. Nevil wrote home most...

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...r VIII Hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids —Sterility various in degree, not univer- sal, affected by close in... ...tal on other differences — Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids —Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and ... ...y of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal — Hybrids and mongrels compared independently of their fertility — Summary. C... ...nt from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the a... ..., I presume, say that, after a certain unknown number of generations, some bird had given birth to a wood- 12 On the Origin of Species pecker, and so... ...ith the exception of the plantigrades or bear family; whereas, carnivorous birds, with the rarest exceptions, hardly ever lay fertile eggs. Many exoti... ...llen utterly worthless, in the same exact condition as in the most sterile hybrids. When, on the one hand, we see domesticated ani- mals and plants, t... ...nding differences in their skulls. The car- rier, more especially the male bird, is also remark- able from the wonderful development of the carunculat... ... a compact flock, and tum- bling in the air head over heels. The runt is a bird of great size, with long, massive beak and large feet; some of the sub...

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...ttle dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no better, h... ...with our beds, which are our night clothes, robbing the nests and breasts of birds to prepare this shelter within a shelter, as the mole has its bed o... ...t did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovec... ...er wants; but I think that I speak within bounds when I say that, though the birds of the air have their nests, and the foxes their holes, and the sav... ... the rails shone in the spring sun, and I heard the lark and pewee and other birds already come to commence another year with us. They were pleasant s... ...wild animal, which is not impossible, for, according to naturalists, prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. T...

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...le dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no bet ter, h... ...h our beds, which are our night clothes, robbing the nests and breasts of birds to pre pare this shelter within a shelter, as the mole has its bed o... ...did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecot... ... wants; but I think that I speak within bounds when I say that, though the birds of the air have their nests, and the foxes their holes, and the savag... ...he rails shone in the spring sun, and I heard the lark and pewee and other birds already come to com mence another year with us. They were pleasant s... ...animal, which is not impossible, for, according to natu ralists, prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. Thi...

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..., if you like. BROADBENT . No, Larry, no. You are thinking of the mod- ern hybrids that now monopolize England. Hypocrites, hum- bugs, Germans, Jews, ... ...nt Judy sees the state o that sammin: she’ll talk to you. Here! gimme that birdn 33 GB Shaw that fish there; an take Father Dempsey’s hamper to his h... ...at now? [He goes home]. Patsy goes down the hill to retrieve the fish, the bird, and the sack. AUNT JUDY. Ah, hwy can’t you hold your tongue, Patsy, b... ...aste they are totally foreign. There is a rustic bench, much roiled by the birds, and deco- rticated and split by the weather, near the little gate. A...

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...e predilection shown in heraldic devices for the more rapacious beasts and birds of prey goes to enforce the same view. Under this common-sense barbar... ...rdinarily serve no industrial end; such as pigeons, parrots and other cage-birds, cats, dogs, and fast horses. These commonly are items of conspicuous... ...re is a subsidiary basis of merit that should be spokes of. Apart from the birds which belong in the honorific class of domestic animals, and which ow... ...tracted 143 Veblen selective process to which the several types and their hybrids have been subjected during the prehistoric and historic growth of c... ... survival of a more recent modification of the main ethnic types and their hybrids — of these types as they were modified, mainly by a selective adapt... ...s in these communities are conceived to be, in virtu- ally every instance, hybrids of the prevailing ethnic elements combined in the most varied propo...

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...con’s son by no means despised money. How could he, having come forth as a bird fledged from such a nest as the rectory at Plumstead Episcopi? Before ... ...or three of whom are to be seen in connexion with every see—who seem to be hybrids—half-lay, half-cleric. They dress like clergy- men, and affect that... ... put a few sheets on the beds,’ said Toogood the father, ‘and when the old birds are both dead she’ll have a thousand pounds out of the nest. That’s t... ...y tell me Jael is going to become Mrs Musselboro.’ ‘Who told you that?’ ‘A bird.’ ‘Yes; I know who the bird is. I don’t think that Jael will become Mr... ...dge, it is the opinion of Jael also.’ ‘But not the opinion of Mrs Van. The bird told me an- other thing, Conway.’ 747 Anthony Trollope ‘What other th... ...e an- other thing, Conway.’ 747 Anthony Trollope ‘What other thing?’ ‘The bird hinted that all this would end in your marrying the widow of that poor...