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  • It was a unique evening, also being the first public hearing of Bülow's friend Carl Bechstein's first concert grand.

    Radical Romanticism David Dubal 2012

  • These early stories were influenced to some extent by the books that she then liked best to read, – Grimm, Andersen, and Bechstein's fairy tales; to the last writer I believe we owed her story about a Wizard, which was one of our chief favourites.

    Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books 1885

  • The idea of it took our fancy completely, the others as well as mine, and though the story was constantly interrupted, and never came to any real plot or end, there were no Queens, or dwarfs, or characters of any kind in all Bechstein's fairy tales, or even in Grimm, more popular than the Queen of the Blue Robe and her Dwarf, and the Honest

    Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • M.A.; in his _Antiquarian Library_, he has continued in his series of translations of Early English Chronicles by giving us in one volume a translation of _Henry of Huntingdon_, and also of the _Gesta Stephani_; while he will have done good service to naturalists and keepers of aviaries and cage birds by the edition of Bechstein's _Cage and Chamber Birds_ and

    Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • With respect to Spitz dogs, _see_ Bechstein's 'Naturgesch.

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • Mr. Tegetmeier, not knowing of Bechstein's account, disputed the accuracy of Blumenbach's statement.

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • "Female wild Bechstein's bats prefer to literally hang out with certain friends while they also keep loose ties to the rest of their colony," Discovery News reports.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2011

  • "Female wild Bechstein's bats prefer to literally hang out with certain friends while they also keep loose ties to the rest of their colony," Discovery News reports.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2011

  • Possibly he was acquainted with a form of the legend found in Bechstein's _Deutsches

    Rime of the ancient mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Pretzlaff and team investigated, for the first time in the wild, the thermoregulation strategies used by communally roosting Bechstein's bats during different periods of their reproductive cycle -- pre-lactation, lactation, and post-lactation.

    Science Blog BJS 2010

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