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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of…

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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…

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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable… — Rohinton Mistry
This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who cover themselves with layers until they present themselves to… — Cecelia Ahern
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is… — Antonin Artaud
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out… — James F. Cooper
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away… — John Howe
And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by… — Martha Gellhorn
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one… — John Webster
All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails, I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such… — Rose Byrne

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