 | Elliott Coues, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1874 - 818 σελίδες
...watches us with timid eyes, all anxiety for the safety of what is dearer to her than her own life. Her mate stands motionless, but not unmoved, hard...and try to entice us away by those touching deceits that maternal love inspires. But we are actually bending over her treasures, and deception would be... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 826 σελίδες
...watches us with timid eyes,1 all anxiety for the safety of what is dearer to her than her own life. Her mate stands motionless, but not unmoved, hard...and try to entice us away by those touching deceits that maternal love inspires. But we are actually bending over her treasures, and deception would be... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 816 σελίδες
...but not unnio%-ed, hard by, not venturing even to chirp the note of encouragement and sympathy fehe loves to hear. Alas! hope fades and dies out, leaving...and try to entice us away by those touching deceits that maternal love inspires. But we are actually bending over her treasures, and deception would be... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 816 σελίδες
...— almost trodden upon she springs up with a piteous cry and flies a little distance, realightiug, almost beside herself with grief; for she knows only...and try to entice us away by those touching deceits that maternal love inspires. But we are actually bending over her treasures, and deception would be... | |
 | 1876 - 494 σελίδες
...watches us with timid eyes, all anxiety for the safety of what is dearer to her than her own life. Her mate stands motionless, but not unmoved, hard...and try to entice us away by those touching deceits that maternal love inspires. But we are actually bending over her treasures, and deception would be... | |
 | Winfrid Alden Stearns - 1883 - 428 σελίδες
...watches us with timid eyes, all anxiety for the safety of what is dearer to her than her own life. Her mate stands motionless, but not unmoved, hard...and try to entice us away by those touching deceits that maternal love inspires. But v .-. .... • .- :-.- --. : -r-..-:- : with-, at •• . - - .~.-... | |
 | Hamilton Association - 1884 - 764 σελίδες
...encouragement and sympathy she loves to hear. "Alas, hope fades, and dies out, leaving only fear ; there isno further concealment — we are almost upon the nest...such a time. If there were hope for her that her nest was undiscovered, she might dissimulate and try to entice us away by those touching deceits which maternal... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - 1897 - 1270 σελίδες
...watches us with timid eyes, all anxiety for the safety of what is dearer to her than her own life. Her mate stands motionless, but not unmoved, hard...and try to entice us away by those touching deceits that maternal love inspires. But we are actually bending over her treasures, and deceptions would be... | |
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As we draw near the mother sees us, and nestles closer still over her treasures, quite hiding them in the covering of her breast, and watches us with timid eyes, all anxiety for the safety of what is dearer to her than her own life. Her mate stands motionless,... 