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" ... themfelves in the Caverns of the Earth, riveted to one another with their Claws and Bills. They flock to Places unfrequented by Men, or even bury themfelves in the Water; the Precaution they take to lubricate their Feathers with their own Oil, and... "
Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such ... - Page 195
by Noël Antoine Pluche - 1766
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Free Thoughts Upon the Brute-creation, Or, An Examination of Father Bougeant ...

John Hildrop - Animal communication - 1742 - 198 pages
...Precaution they take to lubricate their Feathers with their own Oil, and to roll themfelves up like a Ball, preferves them in the Water, and even under the Ice. They are there benumbed, and pals the whole Winter without Motion. The Heart however has a conftant palpitation, and the Warmth...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Hildrop, Volume 1

John Hildrop - Ethics - 1754 - 318 pages
...they take to lubricate their 'Feathers with their own Oil, and to roll them-felves up like a Ball, preferves them in the Water, and even under the Ice....without Motion. The Heart, however, has a conftant Palpitation, and the Warmth revives them at the Return of the Spring; they then revifit their formw...
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Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

John Hildrop - Deism - 1754 - 308 pages
...Precaution they take to lubricate their Feathers with their own Oil, and to roll themfelves up like a Ball, preferves them in the Water, and even under the Ice....without Motion. . The Heart, however, has a conftant Palpitation, and the Warmth revives them at the Return of the Spring; they then revifit their former...
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My Kalendar of Country Delights

Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - Country life - 1903 - 420 pages
...own Oil, and to roll themselves up like a Ball, their Head within, and their Back without, preserves them in the Water, and even under the Ice. They are there benumb'd, and pass the whole Winter without Motion. The Heart however has a constant Palpitation, and...
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Animal Rights and Souls in the Eighteenth Century

Aaron V. Garrett - Nature - 324 pages
...Precaution they take to lubricate their Feathers with their own Oil, and to roll themfelves up like a Ball, preferves them in the Water, and even under the Ice. They are there benumbed, and pals the whole Winter without Motion. The Heart however has a conftant palpitation, and the Warmth...
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