| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...the branch, he watches the result Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the...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 - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...the branch, he watches the result. " Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the...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 - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...the branch, he watches the result. " Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the...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 - Agriculture - 1820 - 474 pages
...Down, rapid as an arrow, from heaven 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 the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and, levelling his neck for the flight, he sees the fishhawk... | |
| Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the...levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey, and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. This... | |
| English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the...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... | |
| Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the...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... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...the branch he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the...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,... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its 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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