 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...first half black, the end half white ; legt naked.» tringjc (sandpipers) 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 literature - 1857 - 452 pages
...white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy 48 THE BALD EAGLE. Yungae, coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks, streaming over the surface ; silent...these, hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | British land birds - Birds - 1857 - 318 pages
...watchful cranes, intent and wading ; and all the other winged multitudes that subsist on the stores of this vast liquid magazine of nature. "High over...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... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - Birds - 1858 - 370 pages
...air; the busy tringas coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming over the surface—silent and watchful cranes intent and wading; clamorous crows,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...surface ; silent and watehful cranes, intent and wading; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitndes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine...arrests his attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sndden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...— the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy sand-pipers, coursing along the beach; trains of ducks, streaming over the surface; silent...his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1859 - 720 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...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
...winnowing the air; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intent6 and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes...the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. 8. High over all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests his whole attention. By bis wide curvature... | |
 | William Martin - Children's poetry - 1860 - 330 pages
...avocations below : the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busytringce coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...and watchful cranes intent and wading ; clamorous crowds, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine ot nature.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 pages
...The erne: a dirty iron colour above, an irou ¿rinffts (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; traius of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading ; cbmorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of thii vast liquid magazine... | |
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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... 
