| 1817 - 422 páginas
...by Dr. Jitycom. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. definitive sentence tbat she must ultimately perish by ahuman hand. In consequence of this well. authenticated legend;...devote the hours between sun-rise and sun-set, to the liope of exterminating the fairy, and wo be to the individual birds of this species, who shew themselves... | |
| 1824 - 984 páginas
...succeeding New Year's Day, until she should perish by a human hand. In consequence of this legend, every man and boy in the island (except those who...off the trammels of superstition) devote the hours from the rising to the setting of the sun, on each returning anniversary, to the hope of extirpating... | |
| John Seacome - 1821 - 556 páginas
...destruction, which she only escaped at the moment of extreme hazard, by taking the form of a toren -, but though she evaded instant annihilation, a spell...woe be to the individual birds of this species, who show themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race: they are pursued, pelted, fired... | |
| Joseph Train - 1845 - 408 páginas
...Newyear's-day, to reanimate the same form with the definitive sentence, that she must ultimately perish by human hand. In consequence of this well authenticated...woe be to the individual birds of this species, who show themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race ; they are pursued, pelted, fired... | |
| John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 páginas
...definitive sentence, that she must ultimately perish by human hand. In consequence of this wellauthenticated legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and boy in the island (except those who have tbrown off the trammels of superstition) devote the hours between sunrise and sunset to the hope of... | |
| 1854 - 394 páginas
...sentence, that she must ultimately perish by a human band. In consequence of this well-authenticated (! \, legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and...woe be to the individual birds of this species who show themselves on that fatal day 1 They are pursued, pelted, tired at, and destroyed, without mercy... | |
| John Brand - 1855 - 520 páginas
...definitive sentence, that she must ultimately perish by human hand. In consequence of this wellauthenticated legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and...woe be to the individual birds of this species who show themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race ; they are pursued, pelted, fired... | |
| John Brand - 1872 - 524 páginas
...definitive sentence, that she must ultimately perish by human hand. In consequence of this wellauthenticated legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and...woe be to the individual birds of this species who show themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race ; they are pursued, pelted, fired... | |
| Arthur William Moore - 1891 - 224 páginas
...Year's Day, to reanimate the same form, with the definitive sentence, that she must ultimately nerish by a human hand. In consequence of this well authenticated...woe be to the individual birds of this species, who show themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race ; they are pursued, pelted, fired... | |
| Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1900 - 582 páginas
...form with the definite sentence that she must ultimately perish by human hand. In consequence of this legend, on the specified anniversary, every man and...extirpating the fairy, and woe be to the individual birds of that species who show themselves on this fatal day to the active enemies of the race ; they are pursued,... | |
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