 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - America - 1853 - 456 pages
...fringes, coursing along the sands; trains of ducks, streaming over the surface; silent and watchful crams, intent and wading; clamorous crows, and all the winged...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... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...below; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy 47 Yungac, coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks, streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading,; clamourous Crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist hy the bounty of this vast liquid magazine... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...below; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy • Yungse, coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks, streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading!; clamourous Crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber, Mrs. Charles Wilkins Webber - Birds - 1854 - 392 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...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... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - America - 1854 - 476 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... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air, — the busy tringx, coursing along the sands, — trains of ducks, streaming over the surface, — silent,...arrests his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, am.' sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fishhawk settling over some devoted victim of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 932 pages
...coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; cranes silent and watchful, intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged...multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast magazine of nature. " High over all these, hovers one, whose action arrests all his attention. By his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 pages
...first half black, the end half white ; legs naked.1 tringa (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...watchful cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and ail the winged multitudes that subsist hy the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 802 pages
...tlong the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; cranes silent and watchful, intent tod wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast magazine of nature. " High over all these, hovers one, whose action arrests all his attention. By his... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1856 - 600 pages
...feathered tribes that pursue their hnsy avocations below : the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...and watchful cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous crowa, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature.... | |
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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... 
