 Towards the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided, long before objects were distinguishable, the Pigeons began to move off in a direction quite different from that in which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that were...  Lessons derived from the animal world - Page 321by C. T - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Jean-Henri Fabre - Domestic animals - 1918 - 390 pages
...a decrease in the number of those that arrived. The uproar continued the whole night. . . . Toward the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided,...sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The howlings of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, racoons, opossums,... | |
 | Jean-Henri Fabre - Domestic animals - 1918 - 392 pages
...a decrease in the number of those that arrived. The uproar continued the whole night. . . . Toward the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided,...sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The howlings of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, racoons, opossums,... | |
 | Jean-Henri Fabre - Domestic animals - 1918 - 392 pages
...a decrease in the number of those that arrived. The uproar continued the whole night. . . . Toward the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided,...sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The howlings of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, racoons, opossums,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Primers, American - 1920 - 390 pages
...two hours afterwards, informed me he had heard it distinctly when three miles distant from the spot. Towards the approach of day, the noise in some measure...sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. DEFINITIONS. — 5. Ae'ri-al, belonging or pertaining to the air. 6. A-non', in a short time, soon.... | |
 | Kentucky Geological Survey - Geology - 1925 - 416 pages
...hours afterwards, informed me he had heard it distinctly when three miles distant from the spot. Toward the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided,...that were able to fly had disappeared. The howling of wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums, and pole-cats... | |
 | Geology - 1925 - 414 pages
...hours afterwards, informed me he had heard it distinctly when three miles distant from the spot. Toward the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided,...that were able to fly had disappeared. The howling of wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums, and pole-cats... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 pages
...the number of those that arrived. The uproar continued the whole night. Towards the approach of the day, the noise in some measure subsided. Long before...sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The howlings of wolves now reached our ears, and foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums, and... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1912 - 798 pages
...returning two hours afterwards, informed me he had heard it distinctly when 3 miles from the spot. Toward the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided;...direction quite different from that in which they had ,-i rri . »•< I the evening before, and at sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The... | |
 | Tim Flannery - History - 2002 - 444 pages
...and I knew of the firing, only by seeing the shooters reloading... the pigeons began to move off... and, at sunrise, all that were able to fly had disappeared. The bowlings of the wolves now reached our ears; and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums,... | |
 | Gayle Brandeis - Fiction - 2009 - 258 pages
...afterwards, informed me he had heard it distinctly, when three mues distant from the spot. Tbwards the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided:...sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The housings of the u>olves now reached our ears, and the /twos, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums... | |
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