 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below: the snow-white Gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy Tringa?, coursing along the sands; trains of Ducks, streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white "gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringz coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, be knows him to be... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy trings coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...pursue their husy avocations helow : the mow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the husy Tringœ coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...clamorous crows and all the winged multitudes that suhsist hy the hounty of the vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose... | |
 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tring<e (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...avocations below : the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along I the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringcB (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below : the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air ; the busy triiHlir, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks, streaming...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to... | |
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Tringse coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. High over... 
