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By inquiring around among knowledgeable Auduboners , we had heard that flocks might sometimes be seen around Kent Island , the eastern anchoring point of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge , and that on the island a good place to look was at ...
By inquiring around among knowledgeable Auduboners , we had heard that flocks might sometimes be seen around Kent Island , the eastern anchoring point of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge , and that on the island a good place to look was at ...
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They look towards it when they rise in the morning ; during the day they glance up at it from time to time without thinking much about it ; and at evening , in the last light , they try to hold it with their eyes from the effacing ...
They look towards it when they rise in the morning ; during the day they glance up at it from time to time without thinking much about it ; and at evening , in the last light , they try to hold it with their eyes from the effacing ...
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You may happen to look up and see along a ridge above above your head a line of gray , white - ringe muzzles , sharp eyes and sharp ears , all focused for who knows how long ? ) on yourself . They are beautiful creatures in their wild ...
You may happen to look up and see along a ridge above above your head a line of gray , white - ringe muzzles , sharp eyes and sharp ears , all focused for who knows how long ? ) on yourself . They are beautiful creatures in their wild ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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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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