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" 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 12
by Charles Alexander Johns - 1862 - 626 pages
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ...

1838 - 944 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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp are it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " These predatory...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 4

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 642 pages
...probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops bis fish ; the eagle, poising himself (or a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends...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. ; und...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 26

Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unimcumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotton booty silently away to the woods. This is very beautiful and very poetical, and, what is...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Revised Edition, Volumes 1-2

Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolntious. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatehes it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into...
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Dwight's American Magazine, Volume 3

Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the 434 435 ea^le, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more...aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grusp ere it reaches the water, and Ьепгв his illgotten booty silently away to the woods. There...
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Peter Parley's magazine

1848 - 392 pages
...evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his oppoaent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp before it reaches the water, and bears his illgotten booty silently away to the woods. The Osprey....
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The School Reader: Third Book

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1841 - 264 pages
...when with a sudden scream, prooably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish. 9. The eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp before it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. 10. These predatory...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 30

Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in its grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The...
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The Baptist children's magazine (ed. by J.F. Winks).

Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 pages
...point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair, the latter drops the fish; the Eagle poising himself for a moment, as if...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears it silently away to the woods." In Job, xxxix, 27, the natural history of the Eagle is finely drawn:...
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Notes and sketches of lessons on subjects connected with the Great exhibition

Great exhibition, 1851 - Great Exhibition - 1852 - 200 pages
...fish-hawk, with a sudden scream, drops his fish ; and now watch the movements of the eagle ; he balances himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim ; then descends like a whirlwind, snatches the falling fish, ere it reaches the water, and then silently...
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