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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… is a formalized tree with foliage and fruit and a pair of birds in the uppermost branches. A short wing S. of the yard … in S. aisle(1) fragments of glazed tiles ornamented with birds, interlace and a griffin in a shield, 14th-century; (2) …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… capital is carved with foliage and with two grotesque birds, and the third with foliage; all the bases are moulded; …
Survey of London
… volary, which was over the Privy Stairs. 159 Keeping birds seems to have been much the fashion in Charles II's … Countess of Castlemaine had one. Queen Catherine also kept birds in her bedchamber. 160 The Queen's Chapel is mentioned … containing many sculptures of men and women, children and birds and monsters, and other strange figures in high and low …
Old and New London
… depicted, in tints which no English tapestry could rival, birds of gorgeous plumage, landscapes, hunting-matches, the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… engaged on getting up a book on the parasitical insects of birds alone, and of course in order to give their proper …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… up wood, went on with letters, began writing out a list of birds. Wet. 19. Finished list of birds, marked out 30 pieces of wood, began the Temptation of … we have been looking out for a long time. It is a book of birds and will probably have 150 or 200 cuts in it. This will …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fenland plants and creatures, especially insects and some birds, that were lost from neighbouring fens then recently …