The Storm: A Juvenile Tale : with Four Coloured EngravingsJ. A. Clussman, 1831 - 34 pages |
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Albina amuse arms asked beautiful bird bread brother brought Brown Cairo called CHARLES GRANT Charles's child china basin Cock cold colour coral necklace cottage cried Dame Bloomfield dear mamma dinner doll eagle eggs Emma exclaimed eyes feathers French language frock garden gentleman Giles Giles's happy harpsichord head Heaven Henry Hoopoe HORNED OWL hungry JACOBINE kind kissed knew Lady Percival little girl looked Madame Boileau Marianne Master Charles Miss Clara Montague Morgan morning mother naughty neck nests never night nurse papa Passenger pigeons PECKER Pheasant pigeon plumage poor boy pretty Snowball prey proud red hair rich Sally seemed servant shilling shuttlecock Sir Richard Percival Sir Richard Percival's sister Clara soon supper sure tague tail tears thing Thompson thought told took TOUCAN uncle Vulture wicked wings wish
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Page 4 - Of all animals the eagle flies highest ; and from thence the ancients have given him the epithet of the bird of Heaven. Of all others also, he has the quickest eye ; but his sense of smelling is far inferior to that of the vulture. He never pursues, therefore, but in sight...
Page 19 - The iris of the eyes is yellow; and the eyes themselves are surrounded with a scarlet colour, sprinkled with small specks of black. On the fore part of the head there are blackish feathers mixed with a shining purple.
Page 22 - This bird, in its natural state, is of a deep bluish ash colour; the breast dashed with a fine changeable green and purple; its wings marked with two black bars; the back white, and the tail barred near the end with black. These...
Page 20 - On the fore part of the head there are blackish feathers, mixed with a shining purple. The top of the head, and the upper part of the neck, are tinged with a darkish green that shines like silk. In some, the top of the head is...
Page 25 - It will convey letters from distant ! parts with remarkable celerity and certainty ; and this arises from the natural attachment which the birds have for the places where they have been bred. The mode of employing them is to take them to the spot whence intelligence is to be brought, to tie the letter under their wing, and to let them loose. They rise to a great height in the air, then, 'by an extraordinary instinct, they dart onward in a direct line to their home.
Page 1 - He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding : but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Page 16 - ... furnished with too warm a nest within doors, for then she is obliged to leave them to cool a little : thus the warmth of the nest only retards incubation, and often puts the brood a day or two. back in the shell, While the hen sits, she carefully turns her eggs, and even removes them...
Page 20 - The feathers of the breast, the shoulders, the middle of the back, and the sides under the wings, have a blackish ground, with edges tinged of an exquisite...
Page 19 - Next to the peacock, they are the most beautiful of birds, as well for the vivid colour of their plumes, as for their happy mixtures and variety. It is far beyond the power of the pencil to draw any thing so glossy, so bright, or points so finely blending into each other. We are told that when Croesus, king of Lydia, was seated on his throne, adorned with royal magnificence, and all the barbarous pomp of eastern splendour, he asked Solon if he had ever beheld any thing so fine ! The Greek philosopher,...
Page 21 - This bird though so beautiful to the eye, is not less delicate when served up to the table. Its flesh is considered as the greatest dainty ; and, when the old physicians spoke of the wholesomeness of any viands, they made their comparison with the flesh of the pheasant. However, notwithstanding all these perfections to tempt the curiosity or the palate...