If he sees no hen or hears no sound resembling that which he desires, he begins to calmly walk toward his feeding grounds, gobbling at long intervals; he then usually stops for the day.
Now, reader, what caused me to suspect from these scratchings that old gobblers were about, and that there were two of them was this: there were but few scratches and at long intervals.
The leaves, which have the ordinary pinnate shape characteristic of the family, are emitted from the stems at long intervals, instead of being collected into a dense crown, and have at their tips a number of long recurved spines.
They flap their wings only at long intervals, for I have noticed them to sail a very considerable distance without a stroke.
The other is very distinct from this; there are no shafts or bolts, but a steady blaze which fills the whole firmament with a white quivering light, lasting many seconds of time, and followed by long intervals of amorphous darkness.
They follow the courses of streams, or cross vast desert plains, where water is found only at long intervals of distance.
The lightning, that for some time had appeared only at long intervals, now ceased altogether.
This strikes me as a good illustration of how little we are able to judge from the ordinary habits of life, on what circumstances, occurring only at long intervals, the rarity or extinction of a species may be determined.
Only at long intervals, a group of points or a single cone showed where a volcano had existed, or does now exist.
The cards were produced reluctantly, and at long intervals, and I have little doubt that there are one or two which still lie hidden in the pack.
Frantz, who visited her at long intervals, complimented her on the simplicity of her dress and the quiet style of her house, she had strength enough to betray nothing of her humiliation.
From the woods could only be heard the rustle of a breeze, and the first timid notes, at long intervals, of the song-birds of the evening.
Hermosa, brought up at the hacienda, had only paid a few short visits, at long intervals, to the great centers of the Mexican Confederation.
Once in a while, at long intervals, Smith, in whom the old man had a sort of shamefaced pride, would eye the thing respectfully.
But only at long intervalsdid he permit himself the luxury of articulately bemoaning his fate, for in spite of his own conviction he felt that any implied criticism of his chief was disloyal.
The sky hung low and brown; at long intervals a few drops of rain fell.
At long intervals he could hear a faint rustling as she moved about.
At long intervals an acrid odor of ink floated up from the branch post-office immediately below.
The same happened in those parts of the world where the epidemics of smallpox came at long intervals, during which many had passed from childhood to youth or mature age without once encountering the risk of smallpox.
It had been continuous in England from 1348, at first in general epidemics, all over the country in certain years, thereafter mostly in the towns, either in great explosions at long intervals or at a moderate level for years together.
He did a great deal of mere hack-work; he reviewed, he translated, he wrote articles; at long intervals a volume appeared under his name.
Scandals of peculiar grossness, at no long intervals, give rich opportunity to the scoffer.
Wagons with wounded came to us only at long intervals.
Out of the forest, at long intervals, came a dull booming sound like the shutting of a heavy iron door.
At long intervals, out of the forest, a wounded soldier would appear.
California at that time was an almost unbroken wilderness, with a few villages scattered at long intervals on the principal rivers, and a single house here and there along the roads.
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