 The unencumbered 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...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - 第 56 頁1846完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 頁
...lanching into the air, instantly gives chace, soon gains on the Fish-hawk, each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the...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 - 1819 - 408 頁
...utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aeriel evolutions. The unincumbered eagle rapidly advances,...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,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 頁
...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...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,... | |
 | 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 頁
...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 this graphic description we may form some general idea of the piercing vision of the eagle, and... | |
 | 1826 - 376 頁
...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...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre: of the eagle and the fish-hawk, arc... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 頁
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away into the woods." These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvre* of the eagle and the fish hawk, are... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1829 - 528 頁
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods." In proof, however, of the innate cowardice of this formidable robber, the same author adds, — " When... | |
 | 1829 - 466 頁
...himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches. it in bis grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.' In proof, however, of the innate cowardice of this formidable robber, the same author adds, — ' When... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 頁
...gains on the fish-hawk ; each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying in the rencontre the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The...bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. " These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvres of the Eagle and fish-hawk, are matters of daily... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 頁
...other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of...bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks and defensive mano3uvres of the eagle and the fish hawk, are matters of daily... | |
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