The Living World: A Complete Natural History of the World's Creatures ...Historical Publishing Company, 1891 - 722 pages |
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Africa American animal appearance attack bear beautiful beetle belongs bird bite body brown buffalo burrows called claws color common covered Crab creature crest crocodile curious dorsal fin ears eggs elephant eyes feathers feeding feet in length female fins fish flesh foot fossil frequently frog frugivorous grass gray green ground habitat habits hair head herd hind hippopotamus horns hunted hunter inches Indian insects jaws killed known larvæ legs Lemur lion lives lizard male mammæ mollusks monkey mouth natives naturalists nature nearly neck opossum ostrich parrot pectoral fins peculiar plumage prey reptile resembles rhinoceros rodents salamander season seems seize shark shell side singular skin snake sometimes South South America species Spider spines spots stripes swallow swim tail tarpan teeth teleosaurus thick tion titmouse tree turtle whale wild wings yellow young
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Page 462 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 542 - The trees of the Lord are full of sap ; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Page 434 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the object of his attention; the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 462 - Though kindled by Thy light, in vain would try To trace Thy counsels, infinite and dark': And thought is lost ere thought can soar so high, Even like past moments in eternity.
Page 462 - Thy chains the unmeasured universe surround, Upheld by thee, by thee inspired with breath ; Thou the beginning with the end hast bound, And beautifully mingled life and death. As sparks mount upward from the fiery blaze, So suns are born, so worlds spring forth, from thee, And as the spangles in the sunny rays Shine round the silver snow, the pageantry Of heaven's bright army glitters in thy praise.
Page 462 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.
Page 462 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 324 - His note is loud and clear, like the sound of a bell, and may be heard at the distance of three miles. In the midst of these extensive wilds, generally on the dried top of an aged mora, almost out of gun reach, you will see the campanero. No sound or song from any of the winged inhabitants of the forest, not even the clearly pronounced ' Whip-poor- Will ' from the goatsucker, causes such astonishment as the toll of the campanero.
Page 331 - While thus exerting himself, a bystander destitute of sight would suppose that the whole feathered tribe had assembled together, on a trial of skill, each striving to produce his utmost effect ; so perfect are his imitations. He many times deceives the sportsman, and sends him in search of birds that perhaps are not within miles of him, but whose notes he exactly imitates : even birds themselves...
Page 433 - ... but man, and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes and ocean, deep below him; he appears indifferent to the...