 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pàgines
...victim of 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...making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the Eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the FishHawk once... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 pàgines
...victim of 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...making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 pàgines
...victim of 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...disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around l At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he... | |
 | 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
...devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-open wing on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as...descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of his wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment... | |
 | 1846 - 522 pàgines
...devoted victim of the deep, his eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-open wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as...making the surges foam around! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour, and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pàgines
...the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and halancing himself with half opened wings, on the hranch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from Heaven, descends the distant ohject of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pàgines
...victim of 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...deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment tiie looks of the Eagle are all ardor ; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the -Fish Hawk emerge,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pàgines
...and balancing himself, with half opened wings, on the branch he watches the result. Down, rapid aj an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the esfr as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment tho looks of the Eagle... | |
 | 1829 - 466 pàgines
...devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight ; and, balancing himself with half open wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as...wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep. At this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and, levelling his neck for flight, be... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1829 - 528 pàgines
...devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight ; and balancing himself with half open wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as...wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees... | |
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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 eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result.... 
