 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1918 - 436 páginas
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 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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...his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle is adopted as the emblem of our country. F. ossifragus, or sea-eagle, frequents the sea-shore,... | |
 | 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 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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...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 páginas
...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...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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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... 
