 | 1855 - 534 pagina’s
...puppy-dog, and lays his eggs in hollow trees. How astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in the woods...a puppy-dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees ? The toucans, to Lo sure, might retort: — To what purpose were certain gentlemen in Bond-street created?... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pagina’s
...puppy dog, and lays his eggs hi hollow trees. How astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in the woods...Cayenne, with a bill a yard long, making a noise like a puppy dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees ? The toucaus, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 412 pagina’s
...trees. How astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird planed in the woods of Cayenne, with a bill a yard long, making a noise like a puppy dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees? The toucans, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pagina’s
...astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in th-: woods of Cayenne, with a bill a yard long, making a noise like a puppy dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees ? The toucans, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pagina’s
...puppy dog, and lays his eggs in hollow trees, llow astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in the woods...Cayenne with a bill a yard long, making a noise like a puppy dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees ? The Toucans, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 520 pagina’s
...puppy dog, and lays his eggs in hollow trees. How astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in the woods...Cayenne, with a bill a yard long, making a noise like a puppy dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees? The toucans, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose... | |
 | 1852 - 498 pagina’s
...puppy dog, and lays his eggs in hollow trees. How astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in the woods...Cayenne, with a bill a yard long, making a noise like a puppy dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees » The toucans, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 502 pagina’s
...puppy-dog, and lays his eggs in hollow trees. How astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in the woods...a puppy-dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees? The toucans, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose were gentlemen in Bond street created ? To what... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 802 pagina’s
...from a review of Waterton's Wanderings : — How astonishing are the freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a bird placed in the woods...like a puppy-dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees ? To be sure the toucan might retort, To what purpose were gentlemen in Bond Street created? To what... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 pagina’s
...from a review of Waterton's Wanderings : — How astonishing are tho freaks and fancies of nature ! To what purpose, we say, is a. bird placed in the...woods of Cayenne, with a bill a yard long, making a noiso like a puppy-dog, and laying eggs in hollow trees ? To be sure tho toucan might retort, To what... | |
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The toucans, to be sure, might retort, to what purpose were gentlemen in Bond street created ? To what purpose were certain foolish, prating members of Parliament created... 
