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" ... single filmy threads, floating in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes or rags; some near an inch broad, and five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity that showed they were considerably heavier than the atmosphere. "
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: With Observations on ... - Page 137
by Gilbert White - 1853 - 342 pages
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Animal Biography: Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 3

William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...than the atmosphere. "• On every side as the observer turned his eyes he might behold a conlrnual succession of fresh flakes falling into his sight,...wonderful shower extended would be difficult to say j but we know that it reached Bradley, Selborne,- and Alresford, three places which toe in a sort of...
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Amphibious animals

William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...considerably heavier than the atmosphere, " On every side, as the observer turned his eyes, he might behold a continual succession of fresh flakes falling into...and twinkling like stars, as they turned their sides toward the sun. " How far this wonderful shower extended would be difficult to say ; but we know that...
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A Picture of the Seasons: With Anecdotes and Remarks on Every Month in the Year

1819 - 188 pages
...inch broad, 'arid five or six long, On every side, as the observer turned his eyes, might he behold a continual succession of fresh flakes falling into...stars as they turned their sides towards the sun. ' Neither before nor after was any such shower observed ; but on this day the flakes hung in the trees...
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The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...inch broad, and five or six long. On every side, as the observer turned his eyes, might he behold a. continual succession of fresh flakes falling into...stars as they turned their sides towards the sun. Neither before nor after was any such shower observed ; but on this day the flakes hung in the trees...
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The Natural History of Selborne, Volume 1

Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 pages
...considerably heavier than the atmosphere. On every side as the observer turned his eyes might he behold a continual succession of fresh flakes falling into...difficult to say : but we know that it reached Bradley, Setborne, and Atresford, three places which lie in a sort of a triangle, the shortest of whose sides...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...inch broad, and five or six long. On every side, as the observer turned his eyes, might he behold a continual succession of fresh flakes falling into his sight, and twinkling like stars." 24. St. Gerard Bishop. St. Geremar Abbot. St. Rotiri Bishop. St. Chiuniald of Ireland. O rises at vi....
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Animal biography, or, Popular zoology, Volume 4

William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...like stars, as they turned their sides toward the sun. " How far this wonderful shower extended it would be difficult to say ; but we know that it reached...and Alresford, three places which lie in a sort of triangle, the shortest of whose sides is about eight miles in extent. " At the second of these places...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pages
...might behold a continual succession of fresh lakes falling into his sight, and twinkling like stars, » they turned their sides towards the sun. How far this wonderful shower extended, would 36 difficult to say ; but we know that it reached Bradley, Selborne, and Alresford, three places rchich...
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A Picture of the Seasons;: With Anecdotes and Remarks on Every Month in the ...

1830 - 188 pages
...the observer turned his eyes, might he behold a continual succession of fresh flakes falling into bis sight, and twinkling like stars as they turned their sides towards the sun. Neither before nor after was any such shower observed; but on this day the flakes hung in the trees...
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The Natural History of Selborne: Observations on Various Parts of Nature ...

Gilbert White - 1833 - 410 pages
...considerably heavier than the atmosphere. On every side, as the observer turned his eyes, he might behold a continual succession of fresh flakes falling into...and Alresford, three places which lie in a sort of triangle, the shortest of whose sides is about eight miles in extent. At the second of those places,...
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