 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1880 - 554 pages
...caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their (light :" . . . .— MILTON, but scout and hurry along in little detached parties...sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and \vater, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find. They... | |
 | John Ruskin - Birds in art - 1881 - 234 pages
...Mediterranean ; for when arrived at Gibraltar, they do not ' set forth their airy caravan, high over seas,' but scout and hurry along in little detached parties...continent at the narrowest passage they can find." 50. You will observe, however, that it remains an open question whether this fear of the sea may not... | |
 | John Ruskin - Birds in art - 1881 - 218 pages
...Mediterranean ; for when arrived at Gibraltar, they do not ' set forth their airy caravan, high over seas,' but scout and hurry along in little detached parties...continent at the narrowest passage they can find." 50. You will observe, however, that it remains an open question whether this fear of the sea may not... | |
 | Natural history - 1882 - 136 pages
...skimming about the Grcciiwuy Coast-guard Station. The swallows have been noticed in seaward flight. They " scout and hurry along in little detached parties of...continent at the narrowest passage they can find." Somo swallows, quite exj hausted, flew on board a ship between Cerigo and Malta, 21st April, 1800.... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1884 - 604 pages
...Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight." MILTON. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, j ust over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1888 - 602 pages
...Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight." MILTOH. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties...water, direct their course to the opposite continent db the narrowest passage they can find. They usually slope across the bay to the south-west, and so... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Cosmology - 1888 - 302 pages
...Easing their flight " (Millon), but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven, and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land...continent at the narrowest passage they can find.' — White's e, letter ix., to the Hon. Daines Harrington. ' That many and serious objections may be... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Cosmology - 1888 - 326 pages
...airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight " (Milfon), but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven, and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 500 pages
...Mediterranean : for when arrived at Gibraltar, they do not ' set forth their airy caravan, high over seas," but scout and hurry along in little detached parties...continent at the narrowest passage they can find." 50. You will observe, however, that it remains an open question whether this fear of the sea may not... | |
 | Natural history - 1920 - 822 pages
...at Gibraltar. And when arrived at Gibraltar, they scout and hurry along in little detached parties and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land...continent at the narrowest passage they can find." He gives an amusing explanation of the gregariousness of birds of various species in the fall migration,... | |
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MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find. 
