 As day dawned and the light crept over mountain and forest, the veha, a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage, would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across the grass, picking up insects here and there, but on the slightest alarm would...  In Stevenson's Samoa - Strana 26autor/autoři: Marie Fraser - 1895 - 190 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1894 - 852 str.
...light crept over mountain and forest, the veha, a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage, would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across...conditions. Then as the sun flashed his first beams on dew-laden tree and flower, the clear, liquid note of the jao (wattled honey-eater) was heard, and he... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 828 str.
...light crept over mountain and forest, the ' veha,' a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage, would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across...conditions. Then as the sun flashed his first beams on dew-laden tree and flower, the clear liquid note of the 'jao' (wattled honey-eater) was heard, and... | |
 | 1899 - 492 str.
...and other tropical fruits. As day dawned and the light crept over mountain and forest, the 'vilia,' a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage,...across the grass picking up insects here and there. Then, as the sun flashes his first beams on dew-laden tree and flower, the clear liquid note of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 684 str.
...light crept over mountain and forest, the ' veha,' a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage, would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across...brown leaf or a stone, and was then as invisible as fur own ptarmigan under similar conditions. Then as the sun flashed his first beams on dew-laden tree... | |
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