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" The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in atremendous manner; and these menaces well answer the intention of intimidating: for I have known a whole village up in arms on such an occasion, imagining the church-yard to be full of goblins and spectres.... "
The Natural History of Selborne - Page 252
by Gilbert White - 1822
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1842 - 614 pages
...owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner ; and these menaces well answer the jntention of intimidating ; for I have known a whole village up in arms on such occasions, imagining the churchyard to be full of goblins and spectres. White owls also often scream...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...appears to me to come from the wood kinds. The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner ; and these menaces well answer the intention...White owls also often scream horribly as they fly * White owls do hoot ; — I have shot them in the act. They also hiss and scream ; but at night, when...
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The natural history of Selborne, arranged for young persons [by G. Ellis].

Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...wood kinds. The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner ; and these menaces will answer the intention of intimidating, for I have known a whole village up in arms on such an occasion. White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along; from this screaming probably arose the common...
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The Natural History of Selbourne: With Observations on Various Parts of ...

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...appears to me to come from the wood kinds. The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner ; and these menaces well answer the intention...goblins and spectres.} White owls also often scream * Dr Haysham says, that the teal is now known to breed in the mosses about Carlisle. — ED. •(•...
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The Natural History of Birds, Volume 18

Frederic Shoberl - Birds - 1836 - 296 pages
...When asleep, the White Owl snores and hisses in a tremendous manner. " I have known," says White, " a whole village up in arms on such an occasion, imagining...the churchyard to be full of goblins and spectres." The Owl, if undisturbed, frequents the same place a long time. Jesse, in his Gleanings in Natural History,...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1842 - 342 pages
...wood kinds. The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner ; and these menaces will answer the intention of intimidating, for I have known a whole village up in arms on such an occasion. White owls also often scream horribly as they fly along ; from this screaming probably arose the common...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1843 - 424 pages
...appears to me to come from the wood kinds. The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner; and these menaces well answer the intention...superstitiously think attends the windows of dying * I have had many opportunities of testing the accuracy of White's observation in this respect. —...
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Zoological Recreations

William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1847 - 434 pages
...appears to me to come from the wood kinds. The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner ; and these menaces well answer the intention...for I have known a whole village up in arms on such occasions, imagining the churchyard to be full of goblins and spectres. White owls also often scream...
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Natural History of Selborne: With Its Antiquities, Naturalist's Calendar ...

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1858 - 454 pages
...destroyers of mice, and even rats, whllo they ire perfectly hannlel* towards poultry. — ED. tremendous manner; and these menaces well answer the intention...intimidating : for I have known a whole village up in anus on' such an occasion, imagining the church-yard to be full of goblins and spectres. White owl*...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and ...

Gilbert White - Natural history - 1862 - 456 pages
...appears to me to come from the wood kinds. The white owl does indeed snore and hiss in a tremendous manner; and these menaces well answer the intention...people's imaginary species of screech-owl, which they supcrstitiously think attends the windows of dying per* Sir William Jardine declares that they do hoot,...
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