 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below: the snow-white Gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy Tringa?, coursing along the sands; trains of Ducks, streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | 1918 - 436 Seiten
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 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy trings coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white "gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringz coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, be knows him to be... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to be... | |
 | 1826 - 450 Seiten
...pursue their husy avocations helow : the mow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the husy Tringœ coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...clamorous crows and all the winged multitudes that suhsist hy the hounty of the vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 648 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below — the snowwhite gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringee, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks, streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. He knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep.... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 Seiten
...busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tring<e (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 Seiten
...avocations below : the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along I the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be... | |
 | 1832 - 660 Seiten
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Tringse coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. High over... 
