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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate Interesting book about wildlife from the 1800's. Printed using a printing press, on thick paper. Beautiful illustrations and engravings. Amazing embossed cover with a picture of some member of the leopard family in jungle surrounds. (Non-modern/1864-1894 version) Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrasesamongst barred owl Bible bill Bird of Paradise Book bough branches cap 8vo cat-bird catch cedar swamp CHAPTER climb cloth extra covered creatures Crown 8vo dark darts devour eagle Edition eggs elephant enemy Engravings escape eyes fall feathers fish flies flock flowers foliage Foolscap 8vo forest Fscap gilt borders gilt edges gilt Price green hawk head heron Home horned owl humming-bird Illustrations in Colours insects keep Kitty Brown Lakes of Killarney leaves light live look loud mocking-bird monkeys mother bird natives neck nest night noise numbers nutmeg Oil Colours orange colour Packets parent birds parrots perched pigeons Pilgrim's Progress pine grosbeaks Plates plumage Post 8vo prey Price ls printed in Colours R. M. Ballantyne Reward Cards river roost Royal scream Scripture snake snake-bird soldier Stories sun-bird tail traveller tree trunk turkey Twelve Views watch wild wings woodpecker woods young Popular passagesPage 138 - These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. Page 138 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. Page 138 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth. Page 148 - Webster's Dictionary of the English Language. Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definition of Words ; comprising also a Synopsis of Words differently pronounced by different Orthoepists, and Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. Page 53 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and... Page 53 - Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.' 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Page 135 - Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. Page 21 - With a glow of blossomed trees, And underneath bestrewn with flowers, The happy dreamer sees. A stream comes dancing from a mount, Down its fresh and lustrous side, Then, tamed into a quiet pool, Is scarcely seen to glide. Like fairy sprites, a thousand birds Glance by on golden wing, Birds lovelier than the lovely hues Of the bloom wherein they sing. Page 149 - BIBLE HISTORY, in connection with the General History of the World. Page 142 - THE ENGLISH BOY IN JAPAN; Or, The Perils and Adventures of Mark Raffles among Princes, Priests, and People of that Singular Empire. Bibliographic information
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