 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pàgines
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " Perhaps there is no similar work extant, which can so justly lay claim to the merit of originality... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 pàgines
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aeriel evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle a adopted as the emblem of our country. t. ossifragus, or sea-eagle, frequents the sea-shore,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 pàgines
...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...his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle is adopted as the emblem of our country. F. ossifragus, or sea-eagle, frequents the sea-shore,... | |
 | 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 - 1820 - 474 pàgines
...himself for a moment, as if to take a 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 this graphic description we may form some general idea of the piercing vision of the eagle, and... | |
 | 1846 - 522 pàgines
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated to long fastings, in of the most voracious, and often... | |
 | 1826 - 376 pàgines
...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...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre: of the eagle and the fish-hawk, arc... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 pàgines
...into the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains on the fish hawk ; each exerts his utmost power to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre* of the eagle and the fish hawk, are... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pàgines
...for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains on the fish hawk ; each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying...bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive manœuvres of the eagle and the fish hawk, are matters of daily... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 pàgines
...for our hero, who, lanching into the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains on the fish hawk ; each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying...bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive mano3uvres of the eagle and the fish hawk, are matters of daily... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 pàgines
...other, displaying in the rencontre the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvres of the Eagle and fish-hawk, are matters of daily... | |
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Fish-hawk : each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden... 
