 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 358 pages
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day waived on which the wood was to bo levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1866 - 448 pages
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to he levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to... | |
 | William Bingley - Zoology - 1871 - 1056 pages
...nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day on which the wood was to be levelled. This was in the month' of February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the trunk, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal THE RAVEN. day arrived in which the wood was to bo levelled. It was in the month of February, when... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1877 - 588 pages
...far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to bo too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest,...wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on.... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1877 - 680 pages
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfeet security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month... | |
 | William Cowper - 1879 - 88 pages
...their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too dangerous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect...be levelled. It was in the month of February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous : so the ravens built on, nest upon ne$t, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was... | |
 | English periodicals - 1882 - 876 pages
...fatal day arrived when the Raven Tree was to be felled. It was in the month of February, when ravens usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt— the...were inserted into the opening — the woods echoed to the heavy blow of the beetle or mall or mallet — the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam... | |
 | Vernon S. Morwood - 1883 - 352 pages
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous...levelled. * ' It was in the month of February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening,... | |
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... and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous.... 
