On the Origin and History of the Unchanged Plural in EnglishC.W.K. Gleerup, 1912 - 137 páginas |
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1625 PURCHAS XIX 1776 PENNANT Zool 1893 ROOSEVELT abundance African antelope analogy animals argali bait barbel beaver Bengal Mag birds blesbok bream Brit buffalo bustard candel capelin carp caught Cely chiefly Chron Churchw Cocks coll collective plural collective singular Curlews dace DAMPIER deer Derby's Exp duck and mallard Durh early MnE Ely Sacr English example found fisch fish FOE Crusoe FOE Tour foules fowl grouse gudgeon haddock Hakl hartebeest HAWKER herd Hist Househ Hudson's Voy iiij KIPLING Lond mackerel mallard material noun moose mullet names of fishes Naworth H. B. NED exx numerous partridge perch pheasant pike plover probably quail roach s-plural salmon SELOUS shot snipe Sport springbuck sturgeon teal tench Trans TREVISA trout turbot unchanged plural WALTON WHITE widgeon wild woodcock words denoting YARRELL þat
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Página 27 - At other times fibrils end on grannies (or, perhaps, on the protoplasmic lining of the granules), and sometimes again a fibril may fork, and its branches end either on granules or on the foam angles. The inference to be drawn from these facts seems to be that the radiations are the result of a change — a differentiation — in the protoplasm as it already exists, and that they do not owe their origin to the presence of any special " spindle-forming substance," by virtue of which they may be supposed...
Página vii - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Página 33 - We had in the way of curiosity much better success, meeting with many curious fish and mollusca, besides corals of many species, all alive, among which was the Tubipora musica. I have often lamented that we had not time to make proper observations upon this curious tribe of animals ; but we were so entirely taken up with the more conspicuous links of the chain of creation, as fish, plants, birds, etc.
Página 61 - ... that are, and then pitch on dapple ; or else begin to think of " being " in general, which is " being" abstracted from all its inferior species, before they come to think of the fly in their sheep, or the tares in their corn. For I am apt to think that the greatest part of mankind very seldom, if ever at all, think of " being" in general, ie abstracted from all its inferior species and individuals.
Página 32 - A person who had kept two small fishes together in a glass vessel, gave one of them away ; the other refused to eat, and showed evident symptoms of unhappiness till his companion was restored to him.
Página 75 - ... space of three moneths wee had such store of Fowle of one kinde (which were Partridges as white as milke) that wee killed above an hundred dozen, besides others of sundry sorts: for all was fish that came to the net. The Spring comming, this Fowle left us, yet they were with us all the extreame cold. Then in their places came divers sort of other Fowle, as Swanne, Geese, Duck, and Teale, but hard to come by. Our Master hoped they would have bred in those broken grounds, but they doe not: but...
Página 18 - Et cognoverunt eum in fractione Panis. And nyghe that Cytee of Tyberie, is the Hille, where oure Lord fedde 5 thousand Persones, with 5 barly Loves and 2 Fisshes. In that Cytee, a man cast an brennynge Dart in wratthe aftir oure Lord, and the Hed smot in to the Eerthe, and wax grene, and it growed to a gret Tree ; and zit it growethe, and the Bark there of is alle lyk Coles. Also in the Hed of that See of Galilee, toward the Septemtryon, is a strong Castelle...
Página 24 - He shof hem alle upon an hyl ; Astirte til him with his rippe, And bigan f>e fish to kippe.
Página 49 - Indians used to catch many of them as they were ascending Bellows Falls. It is supposed that the locks, dams and canals constructed in the river, have driven this valuable fish away. About the latter end of the year the salmon begin to press up the rivers...
Página 35 - That when Dee in his course fain in her lap would lie, Commixtion with her store his stream she doth deny, By his complexion prov'd, as he through her doth glide, Her wealth again from his she likewise doth divide: Those White-fish that in her do wondrously abound, Are never seen in him; nor are his Salmons found At any time in her.