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Marcius Willson. toises , which vary from a few inches to three or four feet in length , the best known to us is the little box - tortoise , which is found every where in this country on dry land . ( See No. 8. ) It is a very gentle and ...
Marcius Willson. toises , which vary from a few inches to three or four feet in length , the best known to us is the little box - tortoise , which is found every where in this country on dry land . ( See No. 8. ) It is a very gentle and ...
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... feet , the toes being concealed by the skin , which completely envelops them . These animals , which are found in all the seas of warm climates , are excellent swim- mers , but on land they shuffle along in a very awkward man- ner , and ...
... feet , the toes being concealed by the skin , which completely envelops them . These animals , which are found in all the seas of warm climates , are excellent swim- mers , but on land they shuffle along in a very awkward man- ner , and ...
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... feet in length . It runs with great swiftness , and strikes such violent blows with its tail that dogs do not readily venture to attack it . It is somewhat noted for robbing hen - roosts and stealing honey . It attacks the bee - hives ...
... feet in length . It runs with great swiftness , and strikes such violent blows with its tail that dogs do not readily venture to attack it . It is somewhat noted for robbing hen - roosts and stealing honey . It attacks the bee - hives ...
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... feet enables it to run up smooth perpendicular walls with great facility , and even to cross a ceiling with its back downward . It is partial to the habitations of men , attracted by the flies which swarm there . Thus Mrs. Mason , of ...
... feet enables it to run up smooth perpendicular walls with great facility , and even to cross a ceiling with its back downward . It is partial to the habitations of men , attracted by the flies which swarm there . Thus Mrs. Mason , of ...
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Marcius Willson. 42 Scale of Feet . 18 24 CROCODILE DIVISION OF THE SAURIANS . - 1 . Mississippi Alligator , Alligator Mississip- piensis . 2. Gavial of the Ganges , Gavialis Gangetica . 3. The Cayman , Caiman palpe- brosus . 4. Egyptian ...
Marcius Willson. 42 Scale of Feet . 18 24 CROCODILE DIVISION OF THE SAURIANS . - 1 . Mississippi Alligator , Alligator Mississip- piensis . 2. Gavial of the Ganges , Gavialis Gangetica . 3. The Cayman , Caiman palpe- brosus . 4. Egyptian ...
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Page 82 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 490 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 314 - Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice — Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 534 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 42 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the Flood.
Page 533 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 491 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.
Page 531 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 491 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 489 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "T is some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more.