Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1852 |
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... and sends forth its young to seek a proper habitation ; and they having done so , remains fixed during the remainder of their existence . Coral and Coral Islands . The substance called coral appears 22 SOMETHING ABOUT SPONGE AND CORAL .
... and sends forth its young to seek a proper habitation ; and they having done so , remains fixed during the remainder of their existence . Coral and Coral Islands . The substance called coral appears 22 SOMETHING ABOUT SPONGE AND CORAL .
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... Islands . The substance called coral appears to have been considered as a vegetable substance till about the year 1720 , when it was discovered to be a living animal of the polypus tribe . The general name of zoophytes , or plant ...
... Islands . The substance called coral appears to have been considered as a vegetable substance till about the year 1720 , when it was discovered to be a living animal of the polypus tribe . The general name of zoophytes , or plant ...
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... islands , and columns of coral continually moving nearer to each other . The principal groups of islands of coral formation are from the New Hebrides eastward , the Friendly Islands , Norwegian Islands , and the Society Islands ; and to ...
... islands , and columns of coral continually moving nearer to each other . The principal groups of islands of coral formation are from the New Hebrides eastward , the Friendly Islands , Norwegian Islands , and the Society Islands ; and to ...
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... islands which form the respective groups ; but all these waters abound with shoals and minor islets , which indicate the existence of a common base , and show that the processes by which they will be hereafter united above the level of ...
... islands which form the respective groups ; but all these waters abound with shoals and minor islets , which indicate the existence of a common base , and show that the processes by which they will be hereafter united above the level of ...
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... island is covered with vege- tation in various forms . Man finally takes up his abode there , and finishes the great work which the little coral insect began . Wyclif and his Teachings . HE very name of Wyclif. 26 26 SOMETHING ABOUT ...
... island is covered with vege- tation in various forms . Man finally takes up his abode there , and finishes the great work which the little coral insect began . Wyclif and his Teachings . HE very name of Wyclif. 26 26 SOMETHING ABOUT ...
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animals appear April fool beautiful birds boys brown dwarfs buds bullfinches buttons called Candlemas canvas captain carronades clock cold colour copper coral dance dark delight dwarfs earth England eyes feet festival floor cloth flowers foot garden give gold green gutta gutta percha hand happy head heart horses Hottentots Iceland islands Isthmian games Joe Row Kaffirs KAFFIRS AND HOTTENTOTS kind King leek light look manufacture metal month mould mountains nations nature nuthatch old Peter Parley paint pattern percha Peter Parley pirate plants porifera race Robin Goodfellow rocks round season seems silver sing Sir William Parsons skate snow sometimes soon sponge spring stiffer and thicker surface thick trees tribes variety various vegetable vein vessel watch wheels whole wild wind winter wood Wyclif young friends
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Página 187 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 189 - And frolic it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if to ride My back they stride, More swift than wind away I go, O'er hedge and lands, Through pools and ponds, I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Página 189 - And while they sleepe and take their ease, With wheel to threads their flax I pull. I grind at mill Their malt up still ; I dress their hemp, I spin their tow, If any 'wake, And would me take, I wend me, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Página 195 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Página 191 - I leap out laughing, ho, ho, ho! By wells and rills, in meadows green, We nightly dance our heyday guise; And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moonlight minstrelsies.
Página 6 - The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb.
Página 129 - And sung their thankful hymns; 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, When as a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Página 3 - It betokeneth warmth and growth ; If west, much milk, and fish in the sea ; If north, much cold, and storms there will be ; If cast, the trees will bear much fruit If north-east, flee it man and brute.
Página 5 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood...
Página 129 - The dew-bespangling herbe and tree. Each flower has wept, and bow'd toward the east, Above an houre since ; yet you not drest, Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have mattens...