10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER HEN»
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Where Nests the
Water Hen
The story of Where Nests the Water Hen is as pure as the lives of the people in it – and as unforgettable.
THE WATER HEN (1921) Written in 192 1 but not published until 1962, The
Water Hen, "A Spherical Tragedy in Three Acts," was the third of Witkacy's works
to reach the stage, but it, too, failed to arouse any favorable critical response or
attract ...
Daniel Charles Gerould, Gerould D
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Goldsmith's Natural history, with notes collected, with a ...
THE. WATER-HEN. AND. THE. COOT. Before we enter upon water-fowls,
properly so called, two or three birds claim our attention, which seem to form the
shade between the web-footed tribe and those of the crane kind. These partake
rather ...
Oliver Goldsmith, George Moir Bussey, Henry Innes (teacher of elocution),
1853
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The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays, ...
Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland's outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and policemen, gangsters and surrealist painters, psychiatrists and locomotive engineers wander ...
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz,
1989
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
XL Of the Water-hen and the Coot. Before we enter upon water-fowls, properly so
called, two or three birds claim our attention, which seem to form the shade
between the web- footed tribe and those of the crane kind. These partake rather
of ...
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The sportsman's cyclopaedia: comprising a complete ...
Moist- or superior irritability with any other part ening their surface once in three
days, with of the body, butter of antimony, will effect certain ob- WATER-HEN and
the COOT. Before we enter upon water fowls, properly so called, two or three ...
Thomas Burgeland Johnson,
1848
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History of animals: designed for the instruction and ...
The Coot and Water Hen. Fowls of this order are distinguished from others by
pinnated feet ; that is, feet with the toes connected by a scolloped membrane. Of
these there are two or three kinds. The coot and the water hen resemble each
other ...
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A history of the earth, and animated nature
CHAP. XI. OF THE WATER-HEN, AND THE COOT.1 BsroRR we enter upon
water-fowls, properly so called, two or three birds claim our □mauun , vvhji.ii
occm i*> kmim viiv t».icuv >" - tween the web-footed tribe and those of the crane
kind.
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The naturalist's cabinet: containing interesting sketches of ...
Description. song in spring is said to be very pretty. In some places it is supposed
to be migratory. THE WATER HEN, OR GJLLINULE, THE COOT. THIS race is
considered by naturalists as the tribe which unites the web-footed kind with those
...
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British birds. The
water birds
The WATER HEN, COMMON GALLINULE, Or MOOR hen, is one of those well-
known half-domesticated species which afford interesting opportunities for
observation. In the old days of moated houses they were very frequent about the
moats, ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATER HEN»
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The Water Hen, Royal Scottish Academy
Kantor and his group of actors, Cricot 2, began a run of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's play Kurka Wodna(The Water Hen)in 1972. The venue was a disused ... «The Times, Jul 15»
First Look: Ed Kenney's Newest Kaimukī Restaurant, Mud Hen Water
For every dinner date over the past two weeks, people have asked me, “Can we go to Mud Hen Water?” (Actually, half of them ask to go to “Mud Water Hen*. «HONOLULUMagazine.com, Jun 15»