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There were also the expected mockingbirds and house finches ( as adaptable as English sparrows ) , Audubon's warblers ( common and ubiquitous like their eastern and midwestern cousins , the myrtles ) , rubycrowned kinglets , flickers ...
There were also the expected mockingbirds and house finches ( as adaptable as English sparrows ) , Audubon's warblers ( common and ubiquitous like their eastern and midwestern cousins , the myrtles ) , rubycrowned kinglets , flickers ...
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Each familiar song , heard at its expected time , is as reassuring of the year's renewal as the swelling buds on the trees and as the groundbreaking by the first snowdrops . The absence of one voice is troubling , an uneasy riffling of ...
Each familiar song , heard at its expected time , is as reassuring of the year's renewal as the swelling buds on the trees and as the groundbreaking by the first snowdrops . The absence of one voice is troubling , an uneasy riffling of ...
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The passengers , held within the same pattern as the pilot's for a few hours , expected to be , and were expected , on the ground at Lindbergh Field at a certain hour and minute of the day ; from that moment , they would disperse ...
The passengers , held within the same pattern as the pilot's for a few hours , expected to be , and were expected , on the ground at Lindbergh Field at a certain hour and minute of the day ; from that moment , they would disperse ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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