perches
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Two companies of Schneidem�hl's Landwehr Battalion advanced against the front of Basses Perches and threw themselves on the ground within from 65 to 110 yards of the work.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
Perch were weeping for their dwellings, Fish were weeping for their homesteads, Perches for their rocky castles.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias
And clever—the only thing you pretend to judge by; though what you can find clever in Mr. Fargus or those Perches goodness only knows.
From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
Only now and then did the batteries newly placed in the parallels succeed in entirely silencing the guns of Hautes Perches.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
The Salmon family are of Arctic origin, as also are the Sticklebacks and the Perches, many of the Cod family, the Herrings, and several of the Flat fish.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
