Do we say zoo or zoom

zoo 203 occurrences

Zig-Zags at the Zoo.

* Zig-Zags at the Zoo. XIX.

In the afternoon I took my little girl to the Zoo.

I had promised her for a long time that I would take her to the Zoo.

" "And what did you do after visiting the Zoo?" "We went home for supper.

" "And the story you have just told me about the Zoo and the pictures and the rest is virtually the same as the statement you made at the station?" "Yes, sir.

"I looked up his depositions before I came away and what he said was this: 'I took my daughter to the Zoo in the afternoon.

We left the Zoo at half past five and went home and had tea.

So Mr. Hill and Daphne went to the Zoo, and after they came home and had tea I took her to the pictures while Mr. Hill minded the shop.

"He didn't leave the place after he came back from the Zoo.

" "I suppose you like going to the Zoo better?

" "That was splendid, Daphne! Which did you like bestthe Zoo or the pictures?" "I liked them both," she replied.

If you ask my wife, sir, she'll tell you I never stirred out of the house after I came back from taking my little girl to the Zoo.

Strange beasts, more strange than the giraffe, You conjure up to view, The flue-box and the forking-calf, Unknown at any Zoo; And new vocations you unfold, Wonder on wonder heaping, Hell-banging for the over-bold, And toffee-cavern keeping.

Inside it was fitted up in very great style: long carpeted corridors opening out into sort of domed winter gardens, something like the snake house at the Zoo.

*** The big elephant at the Zoo has been destroyed, says a news item.

An elephant at the Zoo has just died, while only a few days ago a travelling crane collapsed at Glasgow.

When an hour or two later I emerged I found a notice on my door, "This way to the Zoo".

Honey Bunch, her first visit to the zoo.

Farnlund's musical zoo, by Dorothy Farnlund & Emil Farnlund.

Farnlund's musical zoo.

At the zoo and at home.

Farnlund's musical zoo, by Dorothy Farnlund & Emil Farnlund.

Farnlund's musical zoo.

At the zoo; the stereo book of animals.

zoom 24 occurrences

At twenty-three he fought gallantly at the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom.

The fourth was killed in 1814 at Bergen-op-Zoom carrying the same sword that Carleton himself had used there sixty-seven years before.

A picture of the first siege of Bergen-op-Zoom hangs in the dining-room of the family seat at Greywell Hill to remind successive generations of their martial ancestors.

[Bergen-op-Zoom.]

The towns of Courtraig, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Berg-op-Zoom, and Thiel, had already a flourishing trade.

In Brabant, the maritime towns of Berg-op-Zoom and Antwerp formed, in the Flemish style, so many republics, small but not insignificant; while the southern parts of the province were under the sway of a nobility who crushed, trampled on, or sold their vassals at their pleasure or caprice.

Requesens turned his immediate attention to the relief of this important place; and he soon assembled, at Antwerp and Berg-op-Zoom, a fleet of sixty vessels for that purpose.

They met at Berg-op-Zoom; but their conferences were broken up almost as soon as commenced.

A new congress was agreed on, to assemble at Antwerp for the consideration of the conditions; and the states-general agreed to remove from The Hague to Berg-or-Zoom, to be more within reach, and ready to co-operate in the negotiation.

He therefore laid siege to Berg-op-Zoom, a place of great consequence, commanding the navigation of the Meuse and the coasts of all the islands of Zealand.

periscopic lens^; telescope, glass, lorgnette; spyglass, opera glass, binocular, binoculars, field glass; burning glass, convex lens, concave lens, convexo-concave lens^, coated lens, multiple lens, compound lens, lens system, telephoto lens, wide-angle lens, fish-eye lens, zoom lens; optical bench.

The forts of Lillo and Liefkenshoek are ill-garrisoned; so is Breda, and so is Bergen-op-zoom.

At Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal people used the walls of the houses for post-offices.

Sometimes he walked all the way to the Kahala to watch the dolphins zoom around their salt water pool.

And tell mefor this strange resemblance between us almost overpowers medo yours live?" "Whoy," was the reply, "old Tom Prescot and his woif be alive; and they zay as how they be my vather and moother, and I zuppose they be; but zoom cast up to them that they bean't.

Yes, he crashed a few days agoon his first solo flip, taking offtried to zoom, engine konked, bus stalledsideslipnose-dive.

Crass' ships began to zoom toward the remaining freighters, laser cannons ready.

My name is Zoom.

My name is Zoom.

Count Lowendahl, a friend of Marshal Saxe, and, like him, in the service of France, had taken Sluys and Sas-de-Gand; Bergen-op-Zoom was besieged; on the 1st of July, Marshal Saxe had gained, under the king's own eye, the battle of Lawfeldt.

" Bergen-op-Zoom was taken and plundered on the 16th of September.

Looking at the refugees in the camp at Bergen-op-Zoom, an observer might share some of the contempt of the Germans for the Belgians.

At this juncture, proposals for a suspension of hostilities were willingly entertained by both nations, and after protracted negotiations, a truce of twelve years was signed in Bergen-op-Zoom, April 9, 1609.

Back in Bergen-op-Zoom and Putten I had seen chalk writing on brick walls saying that members of certain families had gone that way and would wait in certain designated places for other members who chanced to pass.

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