 ... manner; and these menaces well answer the intention of intimidating; for I have known a whole village up in arms on such an occasion imagining the churchyard to be full of goblins and spectres. White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along:...  The Natural History of Selborne - Página 186por Gilbert White - 1843 - 398 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 páginas
...not alarmed, booting is the general cry. — WJ along; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...attends the windows of dying persons. The plumage of the reniiges of the wings of every species of owl that I have yet examined is remarkably soft and pliant.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 páginas
...White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...superstitiously think attends the windows of dying * I have had many opportunities of testing the accuracy of White's observation in this respect. —... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 páginas
...White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along ; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...superstitiously think attends the windows of dying persons." White was seldom wrong, and we here see that he qualifies the assertion touching the non -hooting of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 páginas
...owls also often scream horribly as they fly along : from this screaming, probably, arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...remiges of the wings of every species of owl that I nave yet examined, is remarkably soft and pliant. Perhaps it may be necessary that the wings of these... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1858 - 454 páginas
...White owl* also often scream horribly as they fly along ; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...Perhaps it may be necessary that the wings of these binds should not make much resistance or rushing, that they may be enabled to steal through the air... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1860 - 356 páginas
...White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along ; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...owl that I have yet examined is remarkably soft and pliant.1 Perhaps it may be necessary that the wings of these birds should not make much resistance... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 páginas
...White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...the air unheard upon a nimble and watchful quarry. There is, perhaps, not a more beautiful instance of the evidence of design, than that exhibited in... | |
 | 1899 - 478 páginas
...along ; from this screaming, probably, arose the common people's imaginary species of screech owl, which they superstitiously think attends the windows...make much resistance or rushing, that they may be able to steal through the air unheard upon a nimble and watchful quarry. " While I am talking of owls... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1876 - 418 páginas
...White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along ; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...the air unheard upon a nimble and watchful quarry. heaping together for ages, being cast up in pellets out of the crops of many generations of inhabitants.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 páginas
...White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along ; from this screaming probably arose the common people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they...of owl that I have yet examined is remarkably soft I find that there were six young owls in the nest in the old pollard ash, in a hole in which a pair... | |
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