 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...  Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Pàgina 363editat per - 1838Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pàgines
...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...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks, and defensive manoeuvres,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 pàgines
...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...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle a adopted as the emblem of our country.... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 pàgines
...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...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." This eagle is adopted as the emblem of our country.... | |
 | 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 pàgines
...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 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 pàgines
...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...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." The appetite of the bald eagle, though habituated... | |
 | 1826 - 376 pàgines
...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 his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre:... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 pàgines
...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...it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre*... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pàgines
...prohahly 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...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 - 538 pàgines
...probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drsps his fish ; the Eagle poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends...it in 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pàgines
...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...it in 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... | |
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