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Page 258 - BRITISH MOTHS. Accurately delineating every known species, with the English as well as the scientific names, accompanied by full descriptions, date of appearance, lists of the localities they haunt, their food in the caterpillar state, and other features of their habits and modes of existence, &c.
Page 259 - Natural History of British Moths." *' The illustrations are exceedingly numerous, occupying no fewer than 132 plates, and including a figure of every species, and in some cases of the principal varieties. The figures are generally exceedingly well executed and life-like ; they are all coloured, and will doubtless afford great assistance to many a collector in naming his captures
Page 259 - Natural History of British Moths will awaken a strong desire in many of our readers to become possessed of so desirable a treatise. There are probably some thousands, especially among the younger portion of our population, who pay a little attention to entomology, and of these by far the greater number devote their energies to the study of the Butterflies and Moths, the two great groups of insects forming the order Lepidoptera of entomologists. To these, if we may judge from the recollections of...
Page 180 - Well, I had a sweetheart once — so pure, so true that she was like one of those stars shining up yonder ; and just like that black cloud which has covered a dozen of them, misfortune came between us and hid her from my sight. But it could not hide her from my thoughts or from my dreams. By the...
Page 63 - ... yellow bar of carriage-windows brush in vibration across their faces. The ground and the air rocked. Then Siegmund turned his head to watch the red and the green lights in the rear of the train swiftly dwindle on the darkness. Still watching the distance where the train had vanished, he said: 'Dear, I want you to promise that, whatever happens to me, you will go on. Remember, dear, two wrongs don't make a right.
Page 93 - The struggle was over for him ; but he was stupefied by paiu, and instead of allowing himself to sink, he continued to float until the boat reached him and carried him back to the Hercules. He lived long enough to tell the chaplain all he had thought of and intended doing; and he died declaring that he would have done the same again if placed under the same circumstances. He was a brave fellow.
Page 40 - Usurper's spies, submitted to the mockery of a trial, and hung like a common felon. "When the tidings came to us, you saw no tears in my eyes, no grief in my face, and yet I loved him. He had died for the cause, and I was content. Were my faith shaken now, my heart would wither with the thought that I had Frank's death to answer for — I dare not think of that.
Page 205 - She besought me to escape from the country with her, and I refused — fool that I was. How do I know what danger, what impulse may have wrung from her some warrant for the claim Strang makes.
Page 42 - Leave him at once, without a word of parting. I will carry you and your sister Agnes to a place of safety, where you can abide the issue of events. Come, I offer you forgiveness and safety.
Page 207 - But the man who would desert his post at the moment of greatest need is a coward and a traitor, and we shoot such men. Do not lay yourself open to a suspicion of that character.