 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...superior in sin, turned out the other, together with the hedge-sparrow and the nnhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | Birds - 1816 - 338 pages
...out the other, together with the young Hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each canied the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again oppressed with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 470 pages
...superior in size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down, again oppressed by the weight of the... | |
 | 1823 - 626 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow, and the unbatcbed egg. This contest was very remarkable;; the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow, and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable; the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1824 - 498 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedgesparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | Great Britain - 1824 - 498 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow, and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable; the combatants alternately appeared...to have .the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. The contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down oppressed by the weight of its burden... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 392 pages
...out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow, and the unhatched egg. The contest, he adds, was very remarkable: the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times, nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down, oppressed by the weight of its burden... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
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... the next afternoon; when one of them, which was somewhat superior in size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. 
