 | John George Wood - 1855 - 478 頁
...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." When the Osprey plunges after its finny prey, it never attempts to seize them while they are leaping... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 932 頁
...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 Sea Eagle (F. ossi/ragus) is also common in the Middle States, as in other parts of the country.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 802 頁
...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.'1 The Sea Eagle (F. ossifragus) is also common in the Middle States, as in other parts of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 頁
...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 fish-hawk are matters of daily observation along the whole of our sea-board,... | |
 | British land birds - 1857 - 318 頁
...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." Of the true FALCONS (which give their name to the whole family) we have seven species in England, of... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 頁
...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." CORAL REEFS. THERE is a popular error abroad about coral-reefs, which we have repeatedly seen, and... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 頁
...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. HEAD AND FOOT OF BALD EAGLE. " These predatory attacks and defensive maneuvers of the eagle and the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 頁
...for a moment M 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 MOCKING-BIRD. The plumage of the mocking-bird, though none of the homeliest, has nothing gaudy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 頁
...a moment as if to lake a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it iu his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty...silently away to the woods. These predatory attacks and ilefensive manoeuvres oí the eagle and fish-hawk are matters of daily observation along the whole... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1860 - 384 頁
...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 illgotten booty silently away to the woods." Dr. Franklin thus speaks of this Eagle : " For my part, I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as... | |
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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... 
