 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...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...making the surges foam around. At this moment the looks of the Eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the Fish-hawk emerge,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...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...At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...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...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,...At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and, levelling his neck for the flight, he sees the fishhawk once more emerge, struggling... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...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...At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour, and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...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...making the surges foam around ! At this moment the looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...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...this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...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...making the surges foam around. At this moment the looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and levelling his neck for flight he sees the fish-hawk emerge,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...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...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,... | |
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... 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. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the... 
