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Updated: May 1, 2025
A big blue morpho butterfly flapped slowly past out of the jungle, and in its wake came the distant notes high and sharp of the white-fronted antbirds; and I knew that the legionaries were again abroad, radiating on their silent, dynamic paths of life from some new temporary nest deep in the jungle. A jungle moon first showed me my beach.
I was wondering whether I should ever see the army ants in any guise other than that of scouting, battling searchers for living prey, when a voice of the jungle seemed to hear my unexpressed wish. The sharp, high notes of white-fronted antbirds those white-crested watchers of the ants came to my ears, and I left my table and followed up the sound.
Greenwich, with its white-fronted hospital and background of trees, was passed. The air got sensibly cooler, and to Mrs. Bunker it seemed that the water was not only getting darker, but also lumpy, and she asked two or three times whether there was any danger.
Those two haven't begun courting yet. But it won't be long before they start. Did you notice " And details observed by Aunt Louisa endured till the taxi stopped. After a quick journey by New York's unrivaled system of rapid transit, the three men alighted at Spring Street, and a couple of minutes' brisk walk brought them to a large, white-fronted building of severe architecture.
He gazed much at Serafina and said little. He drank no wine that night with Don Alderon: what need had he of wine? On wonderful journeys that my pen cannot follow, for all the swiftness of the wing from which it came; on darting journeys outspeeding the lithe swallow or that great wanderer the white-fronted goose, his young thoughts raced by a myriad of golden evenings far down the future years.
He had persuaded Madame to give up the old-fashioned house in Regent's Park, and they had moved into a maisonette in Mayfair a little white-fronted house, with boxes full of scarlet geraniums, a second man-servant to open the door, and an electric brougham in place of the somewhat antiquated carriage, which the Countess had brought with her from abroad.
Before them, at the entrance of the wide arm of the great lake Michiganon, lay the point even at that early day known as the Door of the West, the beginning of the winding water-way which led on into the interior of that West, then so alluring and unknown. The eyes of all were fixed on the low, white-fronted bluffs, crowned by dark forest growth, which guarded the bay at either hand.
The White-fronted Goose is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey.
In moving, his cloak fell a little open, and I could see for a moment his white-fronted jacket and one of his epaulets. 'But none of this lasted long. In a minute he and his general had rolled up the map, shut the lantern, and turned to go down toward the shore. 'Then Uncle Job came to himself a bit. "Slipped across in the night-time to see how to put his men ashore," he said.
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