 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle a... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...despair and honest execration, the latter 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 it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle is... | |
 | 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
...reaching its opponent, when, with a sudden scream — probably of despair and honest execration — the latter drops his fish. The eagle, poising himself...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
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair and hones' execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certaU aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, aud hears his ill-gotten hooty silently away to the woods. COUNT PLATOFF.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209.... | |
 | 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,...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209.... | |
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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... 
