Large numbers of pheasants are reared by Mr. Baker of Leadenhall from eggs laid by wild birds, and he informs Mr. Jenner Weir that four or five males to one female are generally produced.
In any district in which a species does not exist in large numbers, great assemblages cannot, of course, be held, and the same species may have different habits in different countries.
Large numbers of students thronged the city, learned Greeks and Jews taught in the schools, and a number of advances on the scientific work done by the Greeks were made.
These could now be reproduced rapidly and in large numbers, and could be sold at but a small fraction of their former cost.
The early settlement of America was thus a Protestant settlement, while the migration to America of large numbers of peoples from Catholic lands is a relatively recent movement.
HOLY FAIR, a rural celebration of the Communion once common in Scotland, attended not only by the people of the parish, but by large numbers of strangers from far and near; described by Burns.
Cattle and sheep are reared in large numbers; vines and mulberries are cultivated round the lake, whose waters abound in fish.
Schools of lower and higher grade were established in large numbers.
Large numbers of people in New England, for many years, reposed upon Daniel Webster.
Large numbers of stalwart emigrants availed themselves of this mode of getting from the interior to the sea-coast, by which they earned their subsistence on the way and about ten dollars in money.
Large numbers of the boys, it is true, have done and are doing credit to the College; but the public have no means of judging whether, upon the whole, the training of the College has been successful.
For in India, the introduction of capital to be spent in labour in the rural districts means a social revolution, as large numbers of the labourers set up as cultivators the moment they have saved enough capital to do so.
At the same time it is, he says, a fact that the tiger will give up his kill to wild dogs, and will leave a place in which they are present in large numbers.
It is supposed that they must have done so by chatties, and by hand, with the aid of large numbers of people.
In the great hall of the University, now hidden away in an obscure part of Vienna but still retaining traces of the paintings which then decorated it, the students gathered in large numbers on March 13th.
This petition was rejected by the King; and thereupon, on March 13th, the people gathered in large numbers in the streets.
Flowers growing in large numbers afford a rich booty to the bees, and are conspicuous from a distance.
Every exhibition had a War Savings Stall and Certificates were often sold at these in large numbers, the Queen buying the first sold at the first London Exhibition.
Wages in most cases are at the same rate as men, and as women are organized in Britain in large numbers, the Trades Unions and Women's Committees are always alive and ready to act on the question of payment and conditions.
Large numbers of private firms have established their own canteens.
Cart loads of finely pulverized earth compost were here moving to the fields in large numbers, being laid in single piles of five hundred to eight hundred pounds, forty to sixty feet apart.
Both ducks and geese are reared in this manner in large numbers by the river population.
There were, however, large numbers of ponies assembled here in readiness should their masters require them.
As far as could be seen from the various points in our possession the passage was clear, but experience had taught how the Boers would lie quiet, even when in large numbers, while scouts were passing close to them.
Large numbers of the enemy were on the slope, hidden from sight by the boulders, but these could not long maintain their position, for the British marksmen shot as straight as the Boer.
In some years they are compelled by drought to invade the Province in large numbers.
Large numbers of marine worms of the genus Nereis, which prey upon oysters, are eaten by shorebirds.
Large numbers are, however, fenced in on private estates in various parts of the Province.
All that any state legislature may rightfully be asked to do is to provide for the sale, under tags, of those species which we know can be bred in captivity in large numbers.
As we continued our course, large numbers came to us in canoes from the islands and main land.
We resorted often to this place as a pastime; and it seemed as if the little birds round about took pleasure in it, for they gathered there in large numbers, warbling and chirping so pleasantly that I think I never heard the like.
There came to us two or three canoes, which had just been fishing for cod and other fish, which are found there in large numbers.
Whether Champlain saw this bird as a "stray" on the shores of Cape Cod, or whether it has since ceased to come in large numbers as far north as formerly, offers an interesting inquiry for the ornithologists.
The river seemed full of fishes, and with their hooks they took large numbers.
Large numbers of these subjugated tribes fled from the river banks, and from the region of Westchester, to Manhattan and to Pavonia, where Jersey City now stands.
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