 The unencumbered 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...  British Birds in Their Haunts - Page 12by Charles Alexander Johns - 1862 - 626 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...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...snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, aud hears his ill-gotten hooty silently away to the woods. COUNT PLATOFF. Platóff was always a Kosák... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...chase, soon gains on the Fish Hawk, each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions....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
...his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drsps his fish ; the Eagle poising himself for a moment,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 648 pages
...oilier, displaying, in the rencounter, the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbcred eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...in his grasp, ere it reaches the water, and bears it silently away to the woods." The bald eagle also destroys quadrupeds, as lambs, pigs, &c. ; and... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 650 pages
...most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and ie just ou the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden...in his grasp, ere it reaches the water, and bears it silently away to the woods." The bald eagle also destroys quadrupeds, as lambs, pigs, &c. ; and... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...chase, soon gains on the Fish-Hawk, each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions....his grasp, ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods." Sometimes, however, the Fish-Hawks assemble in bands... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...to the utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these' rencontres the most elegant and sublime evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances,...like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it readies the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. The predatory attacks... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...other, displaying in these recontres the most elegant and sublime aeriel evolutions. The onincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends ike a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty... | |
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