 By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result....  The Percy Anecdotes ... - Page 201839Full view - About this book
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 648 pages
...branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of bis attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear...making the surges foam around. At this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardor, and, levelling his neck for flight., he sees the fishhawk once... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...half-opened wings THE WHITE-HEADED SEA-EAGLE. 43 on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the Eagle are all ardour; and, levelling his neck for flight, he sees the Fish-Hawk... | |
 | 1831 - 796 pages
...and advancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...making the surges foam around ! , At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardor ; and, levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish hawk... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...and, balancing himself, with half opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...making the surges foam around ! At this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and, levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish hawk... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...and, balancing himself, with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...making the surges foam around ! At this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all игdour ; and, levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish hawk... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...and balancing himself with half opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! ,t this moment the eager looks of the Eagle are all ar•, and levelling his neck for flight, he... | |
 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...and balancing himself, with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the Eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1832 - 1028 pages
...sight, and balancing himself with half opened wings, on the branch, he waits the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...ardor, and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the omitted it now, making his usual circuits about the windfalls, as he had no time to spare, and could... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...himself with halfopened wings, on the branch he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from Hearen, descends the distant object of his attention, the...making the surges foam around ! At this moment, the eager looks of the <-,i-;ic are all ardour ; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish hawk... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...and balancing himself, with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck... | |
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