 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pages
...is various, from one to two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while calmly reconnoitering the deep below. Suddenly he is seen to check his course,...flapping his wings. This object, however, he abandons, I 116 NATURAL HISTORY. and he is again seen sailing around as before. Now his attention is again arrested,... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 pages
...behind, and his remarkable strength and curvature of wing distinguishing him from all other hawks. Suddenly he is seen to check his course, as if struck...moments, with such steadiness that he appears fixed in the air, flapping his wings. This object, however, he abandons, and is again seen sailing round as... | |
 | 1833 - 438 pages
...intermixed straight line behind. The height, at which he thus elegantly glides, varies from one to two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while...reconnoitring the face of the deep below. Suddenly his attention is struck by a particular object, which he •eems to survey for a few moments with such... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 396 pages
...height at which he thus elegantly glides is various, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty, and two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while...in air, flapping his wings. This object, however, be abandons, or rather the fish he had in his eye has disappeared, and he is again seen Bailing around... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pages
...is various, from one to two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while calmly reconnoitermg the deep below. Suddenly he is seen to check his course,...flapping his wings. This object, however, he abandons, and he is again seen sailing around as before. Now his attention is again arrested, and he descends... | |
 | James Rennie - 1835 - 408 pages
...behind, and his remarkable strength and curvature of wing distinguishing him from all other hawks. Suddenly he is seen to check his course, as if struck...moments with such steadiness that he appears fixed in the air flapping his wings. This object, however, he abandons and is again seen sailing round as before.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1836 - 398 pages
...height at which he thus elegantly glides is various, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty, and two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while...reconnoitring the face of the deep below. Suddenly he ii Been to check his course, as if struck by a particular object, which he seems to survey for a few... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1840 - 400 pages
...height at which he thus elegantly glides is various, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty, and two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while...object, which he seems to survey for a few moments with Bach steadiness, that he appears fixed in air, flapping his wings. This object, however, he abandons,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...height at which the osprey ' glides is various — from one hundred, to one hundred and fifty, and two hundred feet — sometimes much higher, all the...while calmly reconnoitring the face of the deep below. ... At once, from this sublime aerial height, he descends like a perpendicular torrent, plunging into... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...height at which the osprey ' glides is various — from one hundred, to one hundred and fifty, and two hundred feet — sometimes much higher, all the...while calmly reconnoitring the face of the deep below. ... At once, from this sublime aerial height, he descends like a perpendicular torrent, plunging into... | |
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The height at which he thus elegantly glides is various, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty and two hundred feet, sometimes much higher, all the while calmly reconnoitring the face of the deep below. Suddenly he is seen to check his course, as... 
