 | Ezra Sampson - 1807 - 506 pages
...to produce the sound for which it is remarkable. This sound is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's distance, as if issuing from some formidable creature at the bottom of the waters. It hides in the hedges, by day, and begins its call in the evening,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pages
...for which it is remarkable. This sound is like the interrupted bellow44 BITUMEN....BLACK. ing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's distance, as if issuing from some formidable creature at the bottom of the waters. It hides in the hedges, by day, and begins its call in the evening,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...heard this evening-call an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's...sound is not so big as a heron, with a weaker bill, not above four inches long. It differs from the heron chiefly in its colour, which is in general of... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...interrupted bellowing of a bull, but more hollow and louder, and is heard at a mile's distance, as if issued from some formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters." The fields are assuming a vernal greenness, the buds are swelling in the hedges ; the banks are displaying,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 498 pages
...heard this evening call an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like. the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's...bird, however, that produces this terrifying sound is riot so j big as a heron, with a weaker bill, and not above four inches' long. It differs from the... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 pages
...heard this evening call, an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull ; but hollower and louder, and is heard at a...formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters. This is the Bittern, whose wind-pipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable ; the... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 422 pages
...heard this evening call, an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's...being that resided at the bottom of the waters*." Southey represents this sound as being heard at a distance : , " ' At evening o'er the swampy plain... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 406 pages
...heard this evening call, an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's...being that resided at the bottom of the waters*." Southey represents .this sound as being heard at a distance : • At evening o'er the swampy plain... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pages
...heard this evening call, an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's...inches long. It differs from the heron chiefly in its color, which is, in general, of a palish yellow, spotted and barred with black. Its windpipe is fitted... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1836 - 322 pages
...have not heard this evening call an idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's...formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters." An examination of the structure of the windpipe in this bird proves that it possesses the peculiarity... | |
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But of all those sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern. It is impossible for words to give those who have not heard this evening call an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but... 
