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 201839Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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