 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 School Reader: Third Book - Trang 203bởi Charles Walton Sanders - 1841 - 250 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 trang
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 trang
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle a... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 trang
...despair and honest execration, the latter 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 it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle is... | |
 | 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
...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...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
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite... | |
 | 1826 - 376 trang
...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
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory... | |
 | 1826 - 450 trang
...opponent, when with a sudden scream, prohahly of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish ; the eagle poising himself for a moment, as if to take...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, aud hears his ill-gotten hooty silently away to the woods. COUNT PLATOFF.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 trang
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 trang
...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...descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill gotten booty silently away to the woods.' pp. 207 — 209.... | |
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