 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...  Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 359edited by - 1830Full view - About this book
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...the most elegant nnd sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is jn-i n great privacy, as far as regarded a familiar acquaintance...with the prevailing man-ners of the young nobility ; his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive mantruттев... | |
 | 1838 - 944 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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp are it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " These predatory... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 642 pages
...aerial evolutions. The ttninciinihercd eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching bis opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops bis fish ; the eagle, poising himself (or a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like... | |
 | 1839 - 274 pages
...other, displaying in the rencountre the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions, The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. "These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvres... | |
 | Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 418 pages
...other, displaying in these rencounters the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...and honest execration, the latter drops his fish. T he eagle, poising himself, for a moment, as if to take more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind,... | |
 | Natural history - 1829 - 528 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...despair and honest execration, the latter drops his (i-li. 'I lie eugle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more-certain aim, descends like... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - America - 1841 - 376 pages
...above the other, displaying in these rencounters the most sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." * Of the smaller tribes of the Falccmidtz which inhabit... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1841 - 516 pages
...the other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...scream, probably of despair and honest execration, he drops the fish. The eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unimcumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotton booty silently away to the woods. This is very beautiful and very poetical, and, what... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1844 - 558 pages
...other, displaying in these recontres the most elegant and suhlime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probahly of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the eagle, poising himself for... | |
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