 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...winnowing the air ; the busy THINGS (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streammg over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the wingVOL. I. NO. 12. (34) »»»-- J^ ' U Nil. -h. ,.<!.. I Eagle attacking a Fiih-llnwk. , ed multitudes... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1841 - 264 pages
...the air ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intently watching and wading ; clamorous crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by this vast liquid magazine of nature. 5. High over all these, hovers one, whose actions instantly arrest... | |
 | John Frost - California - 1850 - 558 pages
...below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...these hovers one whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be 4he... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...avocations below: the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busytringae coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these appears one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...avocations below: the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air: the busy tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface; silent...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 pages
...coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks, streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes, clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. He knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep.... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...below ; the snowwhite Gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...below ; — the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringse coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air he knows him to be... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - America - 1853 - 472 pages
...below. The snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringce, coursing along the sands; trains of ducks, streaming over the surface; silent...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to... | |
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... coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. " High over all... 
