Chatty Readings in Elementary Science: Nature knowledge, Livro 3Longmans, Green, and Company, 1901 |
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... piece of bird architecture . Gnarled twigs are loosely bound together with strips of bark or rags , or artfully interwoven until the nest is firm and equal to one season's needs . 8. Robins are careless builders and pay a due penalty ...
... piece of bird architecture . Gnarled twigs are loosely bound together with strips of bark or rags , or artfully interwoven until the nest is firm and equal to one season's needs . 8. Robins are careless builders and pay a due penalty ...
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... piece of wood . Here it sheds its skin for the last time and looks very different ; it resembles a baby wrapped up in very tight clothes . But a great change goes on beneath the cover , and at last a perfect insect emerges . U • : 0 ...
... piece of wood . Here it sheds its skin for the last time and looks very different ; it resembles a baby wrapped up in very tight clothes . But a great change goes on beneath the cover , and at last a perfect insect emerges . U • : 0 ...
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... piece of this rotten wood , about three inches long and of the thickness of a slate - pencil , she fastened a line . Then ascending to her web she hauled up the bit of wood to a height of nearly five feet , and left it hanging by a line ...
... piece of this rotten wood , about three inches long and of the thickness of a slate - pencil , she fastened a line . Then ascending to her web she hauled up the bit of wood to a height of nearly five feet , and left it hanging by a line ...
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... piece ; sometimes it is in two plates , as is the case with the oyster , the mussel and the clam . 5. There are even lower forms of life than these . There is the starfish , for instance , which belongs to the " rayed animals , " and ...
... piece ; sometimes it is in two plates , as is the case with the oyster , the mussel and the clam . 5. There are even lower forms of life than these . There is the starfish , for instance , which belongs to the " rayed animals , " and ...
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... piece on the broad part , or the body , of the crab . But this broad part also includes the head ; for there are the two eyes set on footstalks . We generally find the eyes of animals on their heads , or on the front part of their ...
... piece on the broad part , or the body , of the crab . But this broad part also includes the head ; for there are the two eyes set on footstalks . We generally find the eyes of animals on their heads , or on the front part of their ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
baby back-bone bark barn owl bear beautiful becomes belong birds body branches breathe butterfly caddis-case caddis-worm called carry caterpillar claws coat color coral polyps cotton countries covered creatures crusted animal daisy dandelion dark drupe eagle earth eggs elephant eyes fastened feathers feed feelers feet fern fibers fishes flax flax flower flowerless plants fore fronds fruit gills grain grass green ground grow groweth grubs head hermit crab hind insects kangaroo kind leaf leaves legs LESSON live lobster look maize mice monkey moth mouth nacre nest Pearl oysters pistil poison pollen prey protection reptiles rock sea anemones seed lobe shell skin snakes soft soft-bodied animals soil sole-walkers sometimes species spider spinnerets spores stamens stem stomach strong substances surface swallow swan tail talons taproot threads tiny tree trunk walk whelk wings witch-hazel wonderful wood woody yellow Young oysters
Passagens conhecidas
Página 126 - Hiawatha!" With his knife the tree he girdled; Just beneath its lowest branches, Just above the roots, he cut it, Till the sap came oozing outward; Down the trunk, from top to bottom, Sheer he cleft the bark asunder, With a wooden wedge he raised it, Stripped it from the trunk unbroken.
Página 10 - Hark, how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine...
Página 11 - The glowworms, numerous and bright, Illumed the dewy dell last night ; At dusk the squalid toad was seen Hopping and crawling o'er the green ; The whirling...
Página 127 - And the larch, with all its fibres, Shivered in the air of morning, Touched his forehead with its tassels, Said with one long sigh of sorrow, 'Take them all, O Hiawatha!
Página 126 - Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me...
Página 11 - And seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. " 'Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.
Página 10 - The hollow winds begin to blow, The clouds look black, the glass is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs peep. Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos hid her head ; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For, see, a rainbow spans the sky ; Tiie walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel.
Página 69 - COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball and the Grasshopper's feast ; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you.
Página 11 - The whirling wind the dust obeys, And in the rapid eddy plays. The frog has changed his yellow vest, And in a russet coat is drest.
Página 71 - Harlequin fell. Yet he touched not the ground, but with talons outspread, Hung suspended in air, at the end of a thread. Then the Grasshopper came, with a jerk and a spring, Very long was his leg, though but short was his Wing...