 With outstretched, motionless wings he sails over the surface of the sea, now rising high in the air, now with a bold sweep, and wings inclined at an angle with the horizon, descending until the tip of the lower one all but touches the crests of the waves...  The Cambridge Natural History - Page 63edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1866 - 378 pages
...crests of the waves as he skims over them. Suddenly he sees something floating on the water, and he prepares to alight ; but how changed he now is from...a moment before all grace and symmetry ! He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in ; down drop two enormous webbed feet, straddled... | |
 | Ethnology - 1908 - 316 pages
...enthusiasm of the wonderful flight, gives us, however, another side to the picture. " Suddenly," he says, " he sees something floating on the water, and prepares...moment before, all grace and symmetry ! He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in ; down drop two enormous webbed feet, straddled... | |
 | A. H. Evans - Birds - 1909 - 786 pages
...wings he sails over the surface of the sea, now rising high in the air, now with a bold sweep, arid wings inclined at an angle with the horizon, descending...before all grace and symmetry. He raises 1 Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1896, jj. 52. " id. ibid. his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; down drop... | |
 | Richard Swann Lull - Evolution - 1917 - 814 pages
...this last method is that seen in the albatross, whose majestic flight is thus described by Hutton: "With outstretched, motionless wings he sails over...a moment before all grace and symmetry. He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in ; down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled... | |
 | Richard Swann Lull - Biological Evolution - 1917 - 828 pages
...this last method is that seen in the albatross, whose majestic flight is thus described by Hutton: "With outstretched, motionless wings he sails over...a moment before all grace and symmetry. He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled out... | |
 | Horatio Hackett Newman - Vertebrates - 1920 - 456 pages
...vivid word picture of Professor Hutton will serve to acquaint the reader with one of our noblest birds: "With outstretched, motionless wings he sails over...a moment before all grace and symmetry. He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled out... | |
 | Horatio Hackett Newman - Vertebrates - 1920 - 458 pages
...vivid word picture of Professor Button will serve to acquaint the reader with one of our noblest birds: "With outstretched, motionless wings he sails over...a moment before all grace and symmetry. He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled out... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1922 - 624 pages
...possess in that direction. "Suddenly he sees something floating in the water," says this authority, "and prepares to alight; but how changed he now is...moment before, all grace and symmetry ! He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in ; down drop two enormous webbed feet, straddled... | |
 | Frederick Wollaston Hutton, James Drummond - Birds - 1923 - 526 pages
...a high angle with the horizon, descending until the tip of the lower wing almost touches the crest of the waves as he skims over them. Suddenly he sees...alight; but how changed he now is from the noble bird, who, but a moment before, was all grace and symmetry. He raises his wings, his head goes back, his... | |
 | Robert Cushman Murphy - Antarctica - 1936 - 724 pages
...the water, and up again, is as follows (1865, 278) : The flight of the Albatros is truly majestic, as with outstretched, motionless wings he sails over...a moment before all grace and symmetry. He raises his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled out... | |
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