 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and 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... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...moir.ent as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches 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. F. ossifragus, or sea-eagle, frequents the sea-shore,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...a moment as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches 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. t. ossifragus, or sea-eagle, frequents the sea-shore,... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches 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 to long fastings, in of the most voracious, and often... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre* of the eagle and the fish hawk, are matters of daily observation along the whole of the sea coast, from Georgia to New England, and frequently excite great interest in the spectators.... | |
 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty...attacks and defensive manoeuvres of the Eagle and fish-hawk, are matters of daily observation along the whole of our sea board, from Georgia to New England,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty...to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive mano3uvres of the eagle and the fish hawk, are matters of daily observation along the whole of our... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty...to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive manœuvres of the eagle and the fish hawk, are matters of daily observation along the whole of our... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it readies the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. The predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvres of the Eagle and the Fish-Hawk are matters of daily... | |
 | Natural history - 1831 - 420 pages
...a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty...along the whole of our sea board, from Georgia to Maine, and frequently excite great interest in the spectators. Sympathy, however, on this as on most... | |
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... 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... 
