 ... flower-cup, and, like a curious • florist, removing from each the injurious insects that otherwise would ere long cause their beauteous petals to droop and decay. Poised in the air, it is observed peeping cautiously and with sparkling eye into their...  Mexico: The Country, History, and People - Page 3291863 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 pages
...peeping cautiously, and with sparkling eye, into their innermost recesses ; whilst the etherial motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...sound, well adapted for lulling the insects to repose. Then is the moment for the Humming Bird to secure them. Its long delicate bill enters the cup of the... | |
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 pages
...peeping cautiously, and with sparkling eye, into their innermost recesses, whilst the ctherial motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...sound, well adapted for lulling the insects to repose. Then is the moment for the Humming Bird to secure them. Its long delicate bill enters the cup of the... | |
 | James Rennie - Birds - 1835 - 408 pages
...peeping cautiously, and with sparkling eye, into their innermost recesses ; whilst the ethereal motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...produce a delightful murmuring sound well adapted Humm:ng-birds, engaged in extracting the nectar, and catching insects, the flowers of JBignonia radicals... | |
 | Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...peeping cautiously, and with sparkling eye into their innermost recesses ; whilst the etherial motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...sound, well adapted for lulling the insects to repose. Then is the moment for the humming-bird to secure them. The prairies, the fields, the orchards, and... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...peeping cautiously, and with sparkling eye, into their inmost recesses, whilst tlif ethereal motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...sound, well adapted for lulling the insects to repose. Then is the moment for the Humming Bird to secure them. Its long delicate bill enters the cup of the... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - America - 1841 - 376 pages
...peeping cautiously and with sparkling eye into their innermost recesses, while the ethereal motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...sound, well adapted for lulling the insects to repose. Then is the moment for the humming-bird to secure them. Its long delicate bill enters the cup of the... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...insects that otherwise would with sparkling eye, into their inmost recesses, whilst th^ ethereal motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan and cool the ilowrr, without injuring its fragile texture, and produce a delightful murmuring stand, well adapted... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...peeping cautiously, and with sparkling eye, into their inmost recesses, while the ethereal motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...flower, without injuring its fragile texture, and to produce a delightful, murmuring sound, well adapted to lull the insects to repose. 4. Then is the... | |
 | John Cotton (F.Z.S.) - 1855 - 242 pages
...peeping cautiously and with sparkling eye into their innermost recesses ; whilst the ethereal motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...sound, well adapted for lulling the insects to repose. Then is the moment for the Humming Bird to secure them. Its long delicate bill enters the cup of the... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...peeping cautiously, and with sparkling eye, into their innermost recesses ; whilst the ethereal motions of its pinions, so rapid and so light, appear to fan...sound, well adapted for lulling the insects to repose The prairies, the fields, the orchards and gardens, nay, the deepest shades of the forests, are all... | |
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