 Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 561846Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result Down,...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our hero, who, lanching into the air, instantly gives chace, soon gains on... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. " Down,...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around l At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on... | |
 | 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 - Agriculture - 1820 - 474 pages
...around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and, levelling his neck for the flight, he sees the fishhawk once more emerge, struggling...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are signals for the eagle, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and levelling...with screams of exultation. This is the signal for the eagle, who, launching into the air instantly gives chase, and soon gains on the fish-hawk; each... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down,...with screams of exultation. This is the signal for the eagle, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains on the fish hawk ; each... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1829 - 466 pages
...At this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and, levelling his neck for flight, be sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with...exultation. This is the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains on the fish-hawk: each exerts his utmost to mount... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 650 pages
...the eagle are all ardor, and, levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fishhawk once more emerging, struggling with his prey, and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are a signal EAGLE— EAR. ЭСЗ for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings THE WHITE-HEADED SEA-EAGLE. 43 on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our Hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on... | |
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