 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 pages
...whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 pages
...ambitious of surmounting the arduous task; but, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so much in their way, and was so far beyond their* grasp,...hazardous. Thus the ravens continued to build nest after nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived on which the wood was to be levelled. This... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 266 pages
...difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
 | Gilbert White, Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1900 - 668 pages
...I33-I98).-[RBS] inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous : so the ravens built... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - 1905 - 500 pages
...difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 pages
...whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 132 pages
...whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they n, in the above manner, several of these little prisoners, which sometimes followed for five or six most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
 | 1847 - 926 pages
...difficulty whetted their Inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swellIng, It jutted out so In their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built... | |
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But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security,... 
