 Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...  British Birds in Their Haunts - Page 12by Charles Alexander Johns - 1862 - 626 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1864 - 1238 pages
...hovers the fish-hawk, whose wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air, shows that, lie is settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His...eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wing, the eagle watches the result. Down darts the osprey, the roar of his wings reaching... | |
 | William Lloyd Baily - Birds - 1869 - 272 pages
...attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be THE BALD EAGLE. the Fish Hawk, settling over some devoted victim of...kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself, with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from Heaven, descends... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1870 - 718 pages
...attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His...kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from Heaven, descends... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1872 - 758 pages
...attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His...kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Birds - 1872 - 490 pages
...sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk settling over some devoted victim in the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Aeronautics - 1875 - 610 pages
...hovers one whose action instantly arrests all the eagle's attention. He knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His...kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 558 pages
...attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His...kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with halfopened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an brrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, + half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 414 pages
...attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the Fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His...kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | Ella Rodman Church - Birds - 1877 - 346 pages
...attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air he knows him to be the fish-hawk settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His...kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
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