 | Gilbert White - Biology - 1891 - 840 pages
...Raven Tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal THK RAVEN. day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled.... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1891 - 534 pages
...Raven Tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...to be too hazardous : so the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1893 - 368 pages
...Eaven Tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyrie ; the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and > 1 TUe place of the oak is now occupied by a fine sycamore. — TB acknowledged the undertaking to... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1895 - 266 pages
...Raven Tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - Animal behavior - 1895 - 462 pages
...'raven tree.' Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyrie; the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so much in their way, and was so far beyond their* grasp, that the boldest lads were deterred, and acknowledged... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1900 - 668 pages
...Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society for 1876 (vol. ii. pp. I33-I98).-[RBS] inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting...to be too hazardous : so the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - Birds - 1905 - 500 pages
...Raven Tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyrie; the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1906 - 304 pages
...Raven-tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - English language - 1927 - 132 pages
...Raven-tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyrie : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - Natural history - 1990 - 930 pages
...the Raven-tree. Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry: the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious...to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It... | |
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Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so... 
