"I was much entertained last summer with a……" — Gilbert White
"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
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13 Quotes by Gilbert White
Gilbert White has 13 quotes on this site.
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood;…
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Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
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I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces…
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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
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The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of…
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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people…
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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and…
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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
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More Bat Quotes
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What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got…
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We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and…
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change…
— Yogi Berra
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One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott,…
— James Caan
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Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in…
— Lewis Carroll
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I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little…
— Kelly Clarkson
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All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all…
— Julie Andrews
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You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it…
— Jennifer Aniston
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor…
— Hank Aaron
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I…
— Hank Aaron
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Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.
— Unknown Author
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I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
— Honus Wagner
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