 | Fashion - 462 pages
...she comes and goes, walks around the nest of her hopes, scratches the fractured shell, and by louiidt which resemble the bark of a dog, excites the half-extricated...struggle forth into life. When she has beheld, with this iort of joy, fear, and anxiety, the last of her offspring quit its broken casement, she leads them... | |
 | Fashion - 1851 - 318 pages
...the nest of her hopes, scratches the fractured shell, and by soundt which resemble the bark of a dag, excites the half-extricated young to struggle forth...the plashy pools, away from the river, and among the thick underwood, to avoid the predatory visits of the father. In this season of care and of watchfulness... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...nest of her hopes, scratches the fractured shell, and by sounds which resemble tltt bark of a doy, excites the half-extricated young to struggle forth...the plashy pools, away from the river, and among the thick underwood, to avoid the predatory visits of the father. In this season of care and of watchfulness... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...shell, and by fountlj tckich raemble the bark of a, dog, excites the half-extricated young to straggle forth into life. When she has beheld, with this sort...its broken casement, she leads them forth into the plaahy pools, away from the river, and among the thick underwood, to avoid the predatory visit* of... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1852 - 750 pages
...exhibits her eagerness for her offspring in the anxiety with which she comes and goes, walks round the nest of her hopes, scratches the fractured shell, and by sounds, which resemble the bark of the dog, excites the half-ex*ricated young to struggle forth into life. When she has beheld, with a... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1852 - 742 pages
...the nest of her hopes, scratches the fractured shell, and by sounds, which resemble the bark of the dog, excites the half-extricated young to struggle forth into life. When she has beheld, with a mixture of joy, fear, and anxiety, the last of her offspring clear of its broken casement, she leads... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1857 - 432 pages
...which she comes and goes, walks round the nest of her hopes, scratches the fractured shell, and, bg sounds which resemble the bark of a dog, excites the...the plashy pools away from the river, and among the thick underwood, to avoid the predatory visits of their father. In this season of care and watchfulness,... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 pages
...exhibits her eagerness for her offspring in the anxiety with which she comes and goes, walks round the nest of her hopes, scratches the fractured shell,...struggle forth into life. When she has beheld, with a mixture of joy, fear, and anxiety, the last of her offspring clear of its broken casement, she leads... | |
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... just as the period of hatching is completed, exhibits her eagerness for her offspring in the anxiety with which she comes and goes, walks... 