 Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends...  A History of the Earth and Animated Nature - Page 32by Oliver Goldsmith - 1856Full view - About this book
 | British land birds - 1857 - 318 pages
...mount above the other, displaying in the effort the most beautiful aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and execration, the latter drops his fish. The eagle, poising himself for a moment as if to take a more... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...rapidly advances, and is jnst on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sndden Bcream, prohably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops...snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. THE MOCEING BIRD. The plumage of the mocking-bird,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. HEAD AND FOOT OF BALD EAGLE. " These predatory... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...displaying, in these rencounters, the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment M if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...other, displaying in these rencounters the most elegant and sublime airy evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the osprey drops his fish; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...snatches it in his grasp, ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." Sometimes, however, the fish-hawks assemble... | |
 | William Martin - 1860 - 330 pages
...most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just upon the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden...whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the m water, and bears it silently away to the woods, there to devour it at his leisure. There are eagles... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1860 - 384 pages
...aerial evolutions. The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reach* F 2 ing his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably...snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his illgotten booty silently away to the woods." Dr. Franklin thus speaks of this Eagle : " For... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 pages
...displaying in these manosuvres the most elegant and sublime aerial 7 evolutions. 8 10. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 pages
...displaying in these manoauvres the most elegant and sublime aerial7 evolutions.s 10. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more... | |
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