 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...  The Port Folio - Strana 451823Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - Počet stránok 442
...evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks, and defensive manoeuvres, of... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - Počet stránok 408
...evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle a adopted as the emblem of our country. t.... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - Počet stránok 406
...evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of Teaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest...drops his fish ; the eagle, poising himself for a moir.ent as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere... | |
 | A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston - 1820 - Počet stránok 474
...evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching its opponent, when, with a sudden scream — probably of despair and honest...more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches the fish in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away." Prom... | |
 | 1846 - Počet stránok 522
...evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated to... | |
 | 1826 - Počet stránok 376
...just on the point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair and hones' execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle,...poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certaU aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - Počet stránok 380
...evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre* of... | |
 | 1826 - Počet stránok 450
...rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, prohahly of despair and honest execration, the latter drops...snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, aud hears his ill-gotten hooty silently away to the woods. COUNT PLATOFF. Platóff was always a Kosák... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - Počet stránok 532
...evolutions. The unincumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest...his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209. Mr Ord devotes several pages to criticisms on Wilson's writings, both in prose and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - Počet stránok 538
...evolutions. The unincumbered 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 drsps his fish ; the Eagle poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends... | |
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