 | English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air, the busy tringae coursing along the sands, trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests his whole attention, by his wide curvature of wings and sudden, suspension in air he knows him to be... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...pursue their husy avocations helow : the mow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the husy Tringœ coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...clamorous crows and all the winged multitudes that suhsist hy the hounty of the vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringre coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy trings coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...Wilson, " on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to be... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...avocations below ; the snowwhite gulls slowly winnowing tlft air ; the busy tringae coursing Ğlong the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...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, intent...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in ah", he knows him to be... | |
 | Natural history - 1831 - 420 pages
...that pursue their avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - Birds - 1832 - 472 pages
...pursue their busy avocations below, — the snow-white Gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy Tr ingot coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - America - 1833 - 476 pages
...Wilson, " on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the...streaming over the surface; silent and watchful cranes, * Fauna Boreali-Ameiicana, vol. ii., the Birds. By William Swainson, Esq., FRS, FLS, &c., and John... | |
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Tringae 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... 
