The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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... birds generally . Strictly speaking , the woodcock is not a ' game - bird , ' and the ordinary tenant farmer is within his legal rights in killing the bird upon any land that he occupies . No woodcock may legally be shot , however ...
... birds generally . Strictly speaking , the woodcock is not a ' game - bird , ' and the ordinary tenant farmer is within his legal rights in killing the bird upon any land that he occupies . No woodcock may legally be shot , however ...
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... birds brings nothing but a tang of frost to start the last oak leaves upon their desultory course through the woods , and as for the hazy hunter's moon , ' which , conventionally , should light the main flights across the wild seas ...
... birds brings nothing but a tang of frost to start the last oak leaves upon their desultory course through the woods , and as for the hazy hunter's moon , ' which , conventionally , should light the main flights across the wild seas ...
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... birds journeying to our shores from Norway should first alight upon the Atlantic side unless Einstein's theory that a straight line does not necessarily represent the shortest distance between two points applies also to birds upon ...
... birds journeying to our shores from Norway should first alight upon the Atlantic side unless Einstein's theory that a straight line does not necessarily represent the shortest distance between two points applies also to birds upon ...
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