 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...suspension in air, he knows him to be the fishhawk, (Pandion Halicetvs, SAVIGNY,) settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the...reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the Eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to be the Fish-Hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His 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 as an arrow from heaven,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in ah", he knows him to be the fish hawk, settlin g over 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, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the Fish-Hawk, settling over 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, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk (Pandion Haliattus, Savigny), settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the...reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fishhawk settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the...attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear 11.1 it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the looks of the eagle... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pages
...suspension in air, he knows him to be the nsh hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. Hi* eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with...attention ; the roar of its wings reaching the ear ав it disappears in the deep, making the surgte foam around! At this moment, the eager looks of the... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - America - 1833 - 476 pages
...curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the...Down, rapid as an arrow, from heaven descends the object of his attention; the roar of its wings, reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making... | |
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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 surge foam around. 
