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
| Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - Canada - 1846 - 278 pages
...when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; and the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated... | |
| Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - Canada - 1846 - 288 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 fish ; and the eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind,... | |
| Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolntious. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatehes it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into... | |
| Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 346 pages
...unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point if reaching his opponent, when, wilh a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration,...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." Not a day now passed without Frank and I engaging... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly adv.inces, and is just on the point of reaching bis opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of...honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the 434 435 ea^le, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind,... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1841 - 264 pages
...when with a sudden scream, prooably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish. 9. The eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp before it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. 10. These predatory... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...other, displaying in the recontre the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair ff-rifitĀ« and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moment... | |
| 1848 - 392 pages
...other, displaying in these rencounters the most eloquent and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his oppoaent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his... | |
| William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...other, displaying in those rencontres 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." The poor buzzard is much to be pitied, for his life,... | |
| John Frost - California - 1850 - 558 pages
...other, displaying in these renconfrcs 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." The Fish Hawk (Aquila ffaliceta) referred to above,... | |
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