 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
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - Canada - 1846 - 288 pages
...sight, and, balancing himself with half-open 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... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - Canada - 1846 - 302 pages
...deep, 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 once more emerge, struggling with his prey, and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. This is the signal for... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...and, balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watehes the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around I At this moment, the looks of the eagle are all ardor; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 442 pages
...reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardor ; and, levelling...for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey, and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are the signals... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...at the sight; and balancing himself, with half-opened wings, he watches the result. 'Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear a» it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the ragcr looks of the... | |
 | Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 346 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 of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching his ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the looks of the... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1841 - 264 pages
...and, balancing himself on the branch, with half opened wings, he watches the result. 6. 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, leveling his neck for flight, he sees the fish hawk once... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 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 ardor ; and levelling his neck... | |
 | 1848 - 392 pages
...half-opened wings on the branch, he quietly awaits the result. Down, rapid as a flash of lightning or an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the air as it disappears in 'he deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment, the eager looks of... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane), Jane Loudon - Natural history - 1848 - 426 pages
...fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep." The fish-hawk darts into the water, the clapping of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, and makes the surges foam around. In a moment the fish-hawk emerges, struggling with its prey : but... | |
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