 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
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - America - 1854 - 528 pages
...above the other, displaying in these rencontres 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 illgotten booty silently away to the woods." * Since leaving Athabasca, the twilight had been so... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber, Mrs. Charles Wilkins Webber - Birds - 1854 - 392 pages
...most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just upon the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the wood." As a further illustration of the dashing style of... | |
 | John George Wood - Natural history - 1855 - 478 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...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." When the Osprey plunges after its finny prey, it... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...other, displaying in these rencounters the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take s more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 pages
...other, displaying in the rencontre the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The uninrumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bean his ill-gotten booty silentiy away to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvres... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 932 pages
...the oilier, 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1856 - 600 pages
...point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, the latter drops his fish. The e.ngle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descende like a whirlwind, snatches it ere it reaches the water, and bears his ¡11 gotten booty silently... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...other, displaying ¡" the rencontre the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered 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 manœuvres of... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 452 pages
...other, displaying in these rencounters the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere he reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. WILSON'S AMERICAN... | |
 | British land birds - Birds - 1857 - 318 pages
...mount above the other, displaying in the effort the most beautiful aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and execration, the latter drops his fish. The eagle, poising himself for a moment as if to take a more... | |
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