In the Sharp-tailed Sparrow I think song is merely an expression of sexual excitement because song does not reach maximum frequency until the females arrive and become receptive to the males.
Towards dusk singing again increases, but not to the frequency of the morning peak.
That light will be flashing with more and more frequency in the months to come.
Hansen went back to his reading, only to be interrupted with increasing frequency by message transmissions from an increasingly alarmed Sector Headquarters.
He set it to the frequencyat which Cable had picked up the Rabaul-Bougainville broadcast.
Its ports and landings are better known, through the frequency of commerce and merchants.
Tis probably a wandering of the reasoning powers, created by the frequency of intoxicating drafts," observed the surgeon, as he deliberately threw his left leg over the pommel of the saddle, and slid down on the right side of his horse.
As years rolled on, the shrewd old dame became a general favourite with the pleasure-seekers; the increasing frequency of these pic-nics suggesting to her an opportunity which might be turned to good account, viz.
If we might venture to form any conclusion from the frequency of the red spots, Tiliæ would be the youngest, i.
It appears to me very probable that, with respect to frequency and time of appearance, there would be great differences, since, in the last stage, it is just this character which shows a great variability.
This frequency of large jaguars is somewhat remarkable in a country destitute of cattle.
The frequency of gnats and mosquitos characterises unhealthy climates only so far as the development and multiplication of these insects depend on the same causes that give rise to miasmata.
These veins are full of holes and druses; and their frequency seems to indicate that the granite of these countries is not of very ancient formation.
The frequency of the equatorial rains contributes no doubt to this coloration by filtration through a thick mass of grasses.
Several horses sink beneath the violence of the invisible strokes which they receive from all sides, in organs the most essential to life; and stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks, they disappear under the water.
At the Rio Magdalena the frequency of mosquitos is regarded as troublesome, but salutary.
We were struck with the little water to be seen in the bed of the river, the frequency of subterraneous falls, and the tumult of the waters breaking on the rocks in foam.
And, by the way, the frequency with which most of us have had occasion to leave important labors to drive back unruly cattle, rendered lawless by neglect of our fences, well illustrates a national characteristic.
A careful attention to the theory of moisture, will go far to enable us properly to determine the requisite frequency of drains.
Our views as to thefrequency of drains, may be found under the appropriate head.
He speaks of the frequency with which geologists find in the chalk a fossilized sea-urchin to which is attached the lower valve of a Crania.
Up to our own day there has never been a period when such eruptions have not taken place, though they have been constantly diminishing in frequency and extent.
He turned the band switch to the universal frequency with which all long-range communicators were equipped.
If only the radios in the snapper-boats were on a Federation frequency .
Yea, it feeleth the need and benefit of frequency in duties, and is glad of leave to draw near to God, and feels the bond of love constrain.
He followeth the sinner with frequency and importunity, till he weary him, and make him yield.
So also the frequency must be considered with the quality of the person; for one person may rationally eat a little and often, for his health, and another may luxuriously eat ofter than is profitable to health.
Or it may be an excess in the frequency and ordinary unseasonableness of eating; when men eat too oft, and sit at it too long.
They pretended not to notice the frequency of Mr. Budd's visits, they struggled against an imprudent inclination to leave the young people too much alone.
He soon grew used to the functions of the office, and gave out hundred-dollar interviews on every subject, from labour-strikes to Babism, with a frequency which reacted agreeably on the domestic exchequer.
On the line of march towards advanced positions, the frequency with which a few of the latter resorted to the artistes who acted as vivandières was subject of not admiring wonder to foreigners who looked on.
It is one more instance of the frequency of omissions by authors on those very subjects where it might have been least expected.
The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country; but they differed respecting the frequency of these visits.
To this cause the sailors attributed it; at the time, however, I entertained some doubts, on account of the frequency and rapidity of the flashes.
And this degradation increases with the frequency of the spectacle.
It is not difficult to foresee what other questions the superior being would ask, and probably the first of these would be, the duration of the lives of these little beings, and the length and frequency of their wars?
Broeken, or Bruchen, marshes, on account of theirfrequency in that tract of country.
Hodge remarks that "the frequency and importance of this singular circumstance that the disease is occasionally more prevalent with one practitioner than another, has been exceedingly overrated.
