Chatty Readings in Elementary Science: Nature knowledge, Livro 3Longmans, Green, and Company, 1901 |
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... soft , thick and smoothly rounded , making a famous perch . 6. Bark from birch trees and grapevines , leaves , pieces of hornets ' nest , bits of wood and other material may be found in a vireo's nest . These birds have a pronounced ...
... soft , thick and smoothly rounded , making a famous perch . 6. Bark from birch trees and grapevines , leaves , pieces of hornets ' nest , bits of wood and other material may be found in a vireo's nest . These birds have a pronounced ...
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... soft , cool carpet we have to walk upon ! The pretty pattern in it is made by dots of daisies and patches of buttercups . The river banks here are steep , and tall wild flowers fringe the water . 9. Here dainty mosses and graceful vines ...
... soft , cool carpet we have to walk upon ! The pretty pattern in it is made by dots of daisies and patches of buttercups . The river banks here are steep , and tall wild flowers fringe the water . 9. Here dainty mosses and graceful vines ...
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... soft and damp . If we are quiet , too , we may be well repaid , for there are some very interesting but timid creatures along the waterside . 2. Look out on the ragged hassocks of grass just beyond ! See those brownish looking lumps ...
... soft and damp . If we are quiet , too , we may be well repaid , for there are some very interesting but timid creatures along the waterside . 2. Look out on the ragged hassocks of grass just beyond ! See those brownish looking lumps ...
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... soft , velvet - like coat , waiting and watching for its prey . It has eight jet - black eyes that dully glitter in the darkness of its hiding- place . With what a rush it pounces forth upon some unlucky fly ! LESSON 21 . COBWEBS . ap ...
... soft , velvet - like coat , waiting and watching for its prey . It has eight jet - black eyes that dully glitter in the darkness of its hiding- place . With what a rush it pounces forth upon some unlucky fly ! LESSON 21 . COBWEBS . ap ...
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... soft - bodied animals are such creatures as the snail , the periwinkle and the oyster . Their bodies , having no skeleton , are so soft that they have to be protected by an outside shell . Sometimes the shell is all in one piece ...
... soft - bodied animals are such creatures as the snail , the periwinkle and the oyster . Their bodies , having no skeleton , are so soft that they have to be protected by an outside shell . Sometimes the shell is all in one piece ...
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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...