| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for...capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed by any thing but man, and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad at one... | |
| English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...furnish a rich repast for the vulture, the ravens and the bald eagle, the subject of the present account. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding...capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves, unawed by any thing but man, and from the etherial heights to which it soars, looking abroad at one... | |
| Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed hy nature/or hraving the severest cold ; feeding equally on the produce...sea, and of the land; possessing powers of flight capahle of outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed hy any thing hut man ; and from the ethereal... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally upon the produce of the sea, and of the land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally upon the produce of the sea, and of the land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping... | |
| George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for...capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves ; unawed by any thing but man : and from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliff-s of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for...capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed by any thing but man; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one... | |
| 1831 - 796 pages
...borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for...severest cold ; feeding equally on the produce of the sea nnd of the land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves... | |
| 1831 - 472 pages
...borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the seĀ«, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for...severest cold ; feeding equally on the produce of the sen, and of the land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves... | |
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