Nature Stories from DarwinWalter H. Jenkins, 1912 - Всего страниц: 96 |
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Ameri American monkey ANIMALS DREAM aphides apt learner attack baboon beautiful bees BIRD VANITY body bowers are built Brehm cats cells COCOA cocoanut color coral Countries Visited CRAB THAT EATS Cricket crippled bird curious delight to display Descent Diodon dogs eagle Emotions in Animals Erasmus feathers goldfinch gull H. M. S. Beagle Round habit HENRY W hood HOT-HOUSE FACE insect world JEALOUS BIRD SINGERS Journal of Researches KATY-DID keeper kinds of quills labor land lizard lay her eggs lect MAGPIE MARRIAGE male delights mals mating season monkey mother MONKEYS AND DRINK MOTHERLY MONKEYS mouth naturalist nest noise Origin of Species pincers plumage POLLY THE FOX-TERRIER porcupine puppies recognized side SLAVE-HOLDING ANTS slaves SLEEPING PLANTS song South America species of slave-hold STORIES FROM DARWIN tail tion TRICKY CUCKOO ture VALUE OF ATTENTION voice Voyage of H. M. S. WARNING QUILLS wash their faces young
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Стр. 42 - It is impossible to behold these waves without feeling a conviction that an island, though built of the hardest rock — let it be porphyry, granite, or quartz — would ultimately yield and be demolished by such an irresistible power. Yet these low, insignificant coral islets stand and are victorious; for here another power, as an antagonist, takes part in the contest.
Стр. 81 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Стр. 44 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Стр. 50 - I had a dog who was savage and averse to all strangers, and I purposely tried his memory after an absence of five years and two days. I went near the stable where he lived and shouted to him in my old manner; he showed no joy, but instantly followed me out walking, and obeyed me exactly as if I had parted with him only half an hour before. A train of old associations, dormant during five years, had thus been instantaneously awakened in his mind.
Стр. 43 - The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments, yet what will...
Стр. 41 - ... retained with all its brightness to the present day: I am quite ignorant of the nature and use of this secretion. I have heard from Dr. Allan of Forres, that he has frequently found a Diodon, floating alive and distended, in the stomach of the shark; and that on several occasions he has known it eat its way, not only through the coats of the stomach, but through the sides of the monster, which has thus been killed. Who would ever have imagined that a little soft fish could have destroyed the...
Стр. 55 - I then walked up and pulled it by the tail; at this it was greatly astonished, and soon shuffled up to see what was the matter; and then stared me in the face, as much as to say,
Стр. 42 - Yet these low, insignificant coral islets stand and are victorious, for here another power, as antagonist to the former takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime, one by one, from the foaming breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure.
Стр. 86 - ... full speed to a pan of water, shook the bird about in it until well soaked, and immediately gulped it down without further trouble. Since that time he invariably has recourse to the same expedient in similar cases.
Стр. 43 - Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of an ocean which neither the art of man nor the inanimate works of nature could successfully resist.