... 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 all... The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Pàgina 110per Reuben Percy - 1826Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their...snow-white Gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy Tringa?, coursing along the sands; trains of Ducks, streaming over the surface; silent and watchful... | |
| William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy trings coursing along the sands; trains of ducks... | |
| William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white "gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringz coursing along the sands; trains of ducks... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringre coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy trings coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 648 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighboring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their...snowwhite gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringee, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks, streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their...winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along I the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes intent and wading... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their...snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringae coursin g along the sands; trains of ducks streamin g over the surface; silent and watchful cranes,... | |
| George Montagu - 1831 - 670 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their...snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tring<e (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent... | |
| Edward Turner Bennett - 1831 - 346 pàgines
...commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their...snowwhite Gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy Tringee coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface; silent and watchful... | |
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