The Quarterly Review, Volume 254William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1930 |
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... BUZZARD . THERE are many English people to whom the buzzard is still little more than a name , suggesting perhaps a mere distant speck , a cross of silver against the deep blue of the sky , or a wailing , strident scream , heard above ...
... BUZZARD . THERE are many English people to whom the buzzard is still little more than a name , suggesting perhaps a mere distant speck , a cross of silver against the deep blue of the sky , or a wailing , strident scream , heard above ...
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... buzzard . On the contrary , the law was openly flouted whenever any one felt disposed to break it . In the hunting - field I have heard a man boast openly of a right and left achieved at the expense of the big hawks , and once , when ...
... buzzard . On the contrary , the law was openly flouted whenever any one felt disposed to break it . In the hunting - field I have heard a man boast openly of a right and left achieved at the expense of the big hawks , and once , when ...
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... buzzards into terrifying altitudes , and the disgruntled return of the blackamoors to their own lower levels . Works of reference frequently credit the buzzard with the trick of appropriating the abandoned nursery of a crow , while the ...
... buzzards into terrifying altitudes , and the disgruntled return of the blackamoors to their own lower levels . Works of reference frequently credit the buzzard with the trick of appropriating the abandoned nursery of a crow , while the ...
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