 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 execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more...  Paul Preston's Voyages, Travels, and Remarkable Adventures as Related by Himself - Trang 122bởi Paul Preston, Thomas Picton - 1847 - 336 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 trang
...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,...bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " Perhaps there is no similar work extant, which can so justly lay claim to the merit of originality... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 trang
...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,...his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle a adopted as the emblem of our country. t. ossifragus, or sea-eagle, frequents the sea-shore,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 trang
...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 execration,...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 - 474 trang
...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 - 522 trang
...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,...his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated to long fastings, in of the most voracious, and often... | |
 | 1826 - 376 trang
...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 - 380 trang
...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 execration,...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre* of the eagle and the fish hawk, are... | |
 | 1826 - 450 trang
...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 - 532 trang
...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,...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209. Mr Ord devotes several pages to criticisms... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 trang
...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,...his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209. Mr Ord devotes several pages to criticisms... | |
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