 | Sir William Jardine - Galliformes - 1834 - 388 pages
...with mustard then in bloom, which induced the birds to feed, increased the beauty of the scene ; and I speak within bounds when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour. " When they are... | |
 | Wonders - Birds - 1848 - 496 pages
...with mustard then in bloom, which induced the birds to feed, increased the beauty of the scene ; and I speak within bounds when I assert that there could not be less than twelve to fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for nearly an... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 pages
...with mustard then in bloom, which induced the birds to feed, increased the beauty of the scene ! And I speak within bounds when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour. Quite fascinated... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 714 pages
...with mustard then in bloom, which induced the birds to feed, increased the beauty of the scene ! And I speak within bounds when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour. Quite fascinated... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 344 pages
...birds to feed, increased the beauty of the scene. " I speak within bounds," observes the Colonel, " when I assert that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred Pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour." From the same... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 198 pages
...woods were covered with their beautiful plumage, to which a rising sun imparted additional brilliancy. I speak within bounds, when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowl, of various sizes, within sight of the spot, where I stood for near an hour." Like other birds... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 208 pages
...woods were covered with their beautiful plumage, to which a rising sun imparted additional brilliancy. I speak within bounds, when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowl, of various sizes, within sight of the spot, where I stood for near an hour." Like other birds... | |
 | William Charles Linnæus MARTIN - Poultry - 1852 - 162 pages
...cultivated with mustard, which was then in bloom, induced the birds to collect there for the sake of feed"' the plant ; and he speaks of the beauty of the scene...there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls of various sizes, .within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour." There can be... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...birds to feed, increased the beauty of the scene. " I speak within bounds," observes the Colonel, " when I assert that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred Pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour." From the same... | |
 | William Charles Linnaeus Martin - Cochin chicken - 1853 - 162 pages
...about, cultivated with mustard, which was then in bloom, induced the birds to collect there for the sake of feeding on the plant ; and he speaks of the beauty...there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour." There can be... | |
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And I speak within bounds when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour. 
