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"Stilt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and night here, and endeavour to obtain a fresh supply of provisions, our stock of salt beef being now nearly exhausted. The situation of the house was beautiful; the little harbour being gay with water plants, Pontederiae, now full of purple blossom, from which flocks of stilt-legged water-fowl started up screaming as we entered. The owner sent a boy with my men to show them the best place for fish up the creek, and in the course of the evening sold me a number of fowls, besides baskets of beans and farina. The result of the fishing was a good supply of Jandia, ...
— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates
... to support its most inveterate diseases. The representation of the counties is, I think, still preserved pure and uncorrupted. That of the greatest cities is upon a footing equally respectable; and there are many of the larger trading towns which stilt preserve their independence. The infusion of health which I now allude to would be to permit every county to elect one member more in addition to their present representation." Sir Philip Francis's report of this speech was first printed by Almon in 1792. Junius, ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole |
Words linked to "Stilt" : Australian stilt, black-necked stilt, sheath pile, Himantopus mexicanus, stiltbird, longlegs, Himantopus himantopus, pole, sheet piling, stilt plover, shore bird, pillar, long-legs, shorebird, banded stilt, Himantopus novae-zelandiae, black-winged stilt, piling, pile, white-headed stilt, Himantopus stilt, Cladorhyncus leucocephalum, Cladorhyncus, genus Cladorhyncus |
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