Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and ManagementGardeners' Chronicle, 1848 - 345 sidor |
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... tail outshining the rainbow , in some old - fashioned farm - yard , the pet of his mistress , who is perhaps the most successful poultry - woman in the neighbourhood , and whose stock shows no sign of any murderous thinning . The Peahen ...
... tail outshining the rainbow , in some old - fashioned farm - yard , the pet of his mistress , who is perhaps the most successful poultry - woman in the neighbourhood , and whose stock shows no sign of any murderous thinning . The Peahen ...
Sida 7
... tail like the hen Turkey , nor does such display appear to denote the absence of any feminine virtue . The natural disposition of the Peacock is selfish and gluttonous , and it is only by pampering this weakness that he can be persuaded ...
... tail like the hen Turkey , nor does such display appear to denote the absence of any feminine virtue . The natural disposition of the Peacock is selfish and gluttonous , and it is only by pampering this weakness that he can be persuaded ...
Sida 8
... tail , his puffings and struttings , and all the rattling of his quills , with the coolest indif- ference . Nor does he seem to care much about her admi- ration , or to make all this exhibition of his attractions to secure her notice ...
... tail , his puffings and struttings , and all the rattling of his quills , with the coolest indif- ference . Nor does he seem to care much about her admi- ration , or to make all this exhibition of his attractions to secure her notice ...
Sida 9
... tail faintly visible . These last are tender , and are much prized by those who prefer rarity to real beauty . They are occa- sionally produced by birds of the common kind in cases where no intercourse with other White birds can have ...
... tail faintly visible . These last are tender , and are much prized by those who prefer rarity to real beauty . They are occa- sionally produced by birds of the common kind in cases where no intercourse with other White birds can have ...
Sida 13
... tail is made up of diamonds , and the rest of its body is composed of other costly materials , of which gold is the least precious . It is a specimen of Ornamental Poultry , not unsuitable to the monarch of Great Britain ; but if we may ...
... tail is made up of diamonds , and the rest of its body is composed of other costly materials , of which gold is the least precious . It is a specimen of Ornamental Poultry , not unsuitable to the monarch of Great Britain ; but if we may ...
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Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History and Management Edmund Saul Dixon Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1850 |
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Sida 240 - And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Sida 26 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Sida 139 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Sida 167 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Sida 199 - ... would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality...
Sida 140 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sida 200 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Sida 13 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Sida 327 - Women born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold, says Waller — and Lovelace too!
Sida 257 - tried many experiments by breeding in-and-in, upon dogs, fowls, and pigeons; the dogs became from strong spaniels, weak and diminutive lapdogs; the fowls became long in the legs, small in the body, and bad feeders.