 | John Aikin - 1809 - 594 pages
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 | 1811 - 566 pages
...were judges, and some are exceeding^ active and noisy : in the course of about an hour the company disperse, and it is not uncommon, after they have...flown away, to find one or two left dead on the spot. Dr. Edmonston, in his view of the Zetland islands, says, that sometimes the meeting does not appear... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...the course of about an hour the company eenerally disperse, and it is not uncommon, after they nave flown away, to find one or two left dead on the spot. — Landt's Description of Feroe Islands. Dr. Edmonstone, in his view of the Shetland Islands, ťay*... | |
 | 1833 - 274 pages
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 | 1834 - 222 pages
...active and noisy, like lawyers and witnesses : in the course of about an hour the company generally disperse, and it is not uncommon, after they have flown away, to find one or two left dead on the sp-jt. Dr. Edmonstone, in his view of the Shetland Islands, says that sometimes the crow-court, or... | |
 | Edward Stanley - Birds - 1835 - 308 pages
...as grave as judges, while others again, are exceedingly active and noisy ; in the course of about an hour they disperse, and it is not uncommon, after...flown away, to find one or two left dead on the spot. Another writer* says, that these meetings will sometimes continue for a day or two, before the object,... | |
 | 1837 - 490 pages
...as grave as judges, while others again, are exceedingly active and noisy ; in the course of about an hour they disperse, and it is not uncommon, after...flown away, to find one or two left dead on the spot. Another writer says, that these meetings will sometimes continue for a day or two, before the object,... | |
 | 1837 - 488 pages
...as grave as judges, while others again, are exceedingly active and noisy ; in the course of about an hour they disperse, and it is not uncommon, after...flown away, to find one or two left dead on the spot. Another writer says, that these meetings will sometimes continue for a day or two, before the object,... | |
 | Percy Bolingbroke St. John - Birds - 1838 - 208 pages
...company generally disperses, (though sometimes, according to Dr. Edmonstone, the court lasts two days,) and it is not uncommon, after they have flown away, to find one or two left dead upon the spot. CROWS V. GUNPOWDER. " Fled like crows, when they smell gunpowder." Butler. " If crows... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 272 pages
...exceedingly active and noisy ; in the course of about an hour they disperse, and it is not unusual, after they have flown away, to find one or two left dead on the spot. There seems every reason to believe that these meetings partake of a judicial character, for Dr. Edmonston... | |
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They collect in great numbers, as if they had been all summoned for the occasion; a few of the flock sit with drooping heads... 
