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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 359
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Traits and Anecdotes of Animals

Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 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...certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in its grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The...
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The New Penny Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1

Great Britain - 1861 - 270 pages
...eagle rapidly advances, and is just upon the point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream of despair and honest execration the latter drops...moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends liko a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty...
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British Birds in Their Haunts

Charles Alexander Johns - Birds - 1862 - 676 pages
...other, displaying in the rencontres 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." The Osprey has been observed on various parts of...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is juirt on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. THE MOCKING-BIRD. The plumage of the mocking-bird,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...displaying, in these rencounters, the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sndden seream, probably of despair and honest exeeration, the latter drops bis fish ; the eagle, poising...
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The Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools

George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...displaying in these rencounters6 the most elegant and Bublime aerial7 evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...execration", the latter drops his fish; the eagle, poising9 himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches...
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Our feathered families, Volume 2

Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 358 pages
...other, displaying in these rencounters the most elegant and suhlime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on. the point...of despair and honest execration, the latter drops the fish ; the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like...
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All the Year Round, Volume 10

1864 - 1238 pages
...mount above the other, displaying the most elegant and sublime evolutions, until the unencumbered eagle is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when,...eagle, poising himself for a moment as if to take more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it. in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and...
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All the Year Round, Volume 10

English literature - 1864 - 632 pages
...mount above the other, displaying the most elegant and sublime evolutions, until the unencumbered eagle is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sndden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle, poising...
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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...rencounters, the most elegant and sublime serial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and i* just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden ?rrcam, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish; the eagle, poising himself...
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