"You may depend on it that the bunting,……" — Gilbert White
"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."
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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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I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
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More Bunting Quotes
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one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight…
— Edd Roush
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The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his…
— John James Audubon
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There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby…
— John James Audubon
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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
— Andrew Motion
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Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is…
— Bill James
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