A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy: Timber trees, fruitsC. Knight, 1829 - 422 |
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... constructed as to resist the influ- ence of seasons , to contain the young for much longer periods , even occasionally to furnish a supply of food , or be a storehouse to afford it when wanted by the infant brood * . " Reaumur , the ...
... constructed as to resist the influ- ence of seasons , to contain the young for much longer periods , even occasionally to furnish a supply of food , or be a storehouse to afford it when wanted by the infant brood * . " Reaumur , the ...
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... constructed their first ships of the pines of the Scandinavian mountains . Upon the Gulph of Bothnia , near the borders of Lapland , at the bottom of one of the forests sloping towards a bay , Dr. Clarke saw a pine - vessel of forty ...
... constructed their first ships of the pines of the Scandinavian mountains . Upon the Gulph of Bothnia , near the borders of Lapland , at the bottom of one of the forests sloping towards a bay , Dr. Clarke saw a pine - vessel of forty ...
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... accustomed to unite together the small rafts of timber floated down the tributary rivers into the Rhine , and to construct enormous floats , which are navigated to Dortrecht , and sold . These machines -THE PINE . ' 45.
... accustomed to unite together the small rafts of timber floated down the tributary rivers into the Rhine , and to construct enormous floats , which are navigated to Dortrecht , and sold . These machines -THE PINE . ' 45.
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... constructed of it show no symptoms of decay ; and the complete preservation of some of the finest paintings of the great masters of Italy is , in some respects , owing to the panels of larch on which they are executed . The objects for ...
... constructed of it show no symptoms of decay ; and the complete preservation of some of the finest paintings of the great masters of Italy is , in some respects , owing to the panels of larch on which they are executed . The objects for ...
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... constructed of this tree . " Solomon raised a levy of thirty thousand men out of all Israel ; and he sent them to Lebanon , ten thousand a month , by courses ; and he had threescore and ten thousand that bore burthens , and fourscore ...
... constructed of this tree . " Solomon raised a levy of thirty thousand men out of all Israel ; and he sent them to Lebanon , ten thousand a month , by courses ; and he had threescore and ten thousand that bore burthens , and fourscore ...
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Strona 51 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Strona 282 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Strona 266 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Strona 281 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Strona 289 - The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...
Strona 252 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Strona 54 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Strona 234 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.
Strona 68 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together, and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still, and stirred not for all that.
Strona 244 - Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an aged Banian grew. It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree; For o'er the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propped its lofty head; And many a long, depending shoot, Seeking to strike its root, Straight, like a plummet, grew towards the ground.