10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DORHAWK»
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin
A dorhawk, a bird not full so big as a pigeon, somewhat of a woodcock colour,
and paned somewhat like a hawk, with a bill not much bigger than that of a
titmouse, and a very wide throat ; known by the name of a dorhawk, or preyer
upon ...
Thomas Browne (sir.), Simon Wilkin, 1852
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. ...
In brief, this accipiter cantharophagus, or dorhawk, is avis rostratula gutturosa,
quasi coaxans, scarabceis vescens, sub vesperam volans, ovum speciosissimum
excludens. I have had many of them, and am sorry I have not one to send you.
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1852
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Browne. ...
A dorhawk, a bird not full so big as a pigeon, somewhat of a woodcock colour,
and paned somewhat like a hawk, with a bill not much bigger than that of a
titmouse, and a very wide throat ; known by the name of a dorhawk, or preyer
upon ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1836
4
Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence
A dorhawk, a bird not full so big as a pigeon, somewhat of a woodcock colour,
and paned somewhat like a hawk, with a bill not much bigger than that Of a
titmouse, and a very wide throat; known by the name of a dorhawk, or preyer
upon ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1836
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Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon ...
They grow very fat, and are accounted a dainty dish. A dorhawk, a bird not full so
big as a pigeon, somewhat of a woodcock colour, and paned somewhat like a
hawk, with a bill not much bigger than that of a titmouse, and a very wide throat ...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1889
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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time ...
The DorHawk. 'The buzzing Dorhawk round andround is wheeling' (c. i.l. 3).
When the Poem was first written the note of the bird was thus described:— 'The
Nighthawk is singing his froglike tune, Twirling his watchman's rattle about'— but
from ...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a ...
A small bird of prey, called a birdcatcher, about the bigness of a thrush, and linnet
-coloured, with a longish white bill, and sharp ; of a very fierce and wild nature,
though kept in a cage, and fed with flesh ; — a kind of lanitts. A dorhawk 9 or kind
...
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. ...
In brief, this aceipiter cantharophagus, or dorhawk, is avis rostratula gutturosa,
quasi coaxans, scarabceis vescens, sub vesperam volans, ovum speciosissimum
excludens. I have had many of them, and am sorry I have not one to send you.
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1884
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Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-laureate, D. C. L.
... sincere Of occupation, not by fashion led, Thou turn'st the wheel that slept with
dust o'erspread ; My nerves from no such murmur shrink, — tho' near, Soft as the
Dorhawk's to a distant ear, When twilight shades darken the mountain's head.
Christopher Wordsworth, 1851
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The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, ...
We have just been - told that except the buzzing of the Dorhawk, that solitary bird,
there was no' thing but Silence deeper far than that of deepest noon— Yet the
author bursts out with Hush, there is some one on the stir! -'Tis Benjamin the ...
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