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" Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends... "
The Percy Anecdotes ... - Page 20
1839
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American Ornithology, Or The Natural History of the Birds of the ..., Volume 1

Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " Perhaps there is no similar work extant, which can so justly lay claim to the merit...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 5

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aeriel evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle a adopted as the emblem of our country. t. ossifragus, or sea-eagle, frequents...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 5

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...sublime aeriel evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of Teaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably...drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moir.ent as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere...
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Curious Experiments for Preventing the Waste of Honey, and Preserving the ...

A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston - Agriculture - 1820 - 474 pages
...aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching its opponent, when, with a sudden scream — probably...more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches the fish in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away." Prom...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated to long fastings, in of the most voracious,...
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The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...other, displaymg in these rencounters the most elegant and suhlime aerial evolutions. The unencumhered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, prohahly of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle poising himself for...
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The North American Review, Volume 24

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209. Mr Ord devotes several pages to criticisms...
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The North American Review, Volume 24

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drsps his fish ; the Eagle poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 1

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." In proof, however, of the innate cowardice of this formidable robber, the same author...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1829 - 466 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches. it in bis grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.' In...
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