| 1833 - 444 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below : the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringar coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent watchful cranes intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitude that subsist by the... | |
| 1834 - 700 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringx 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... | |
| 1834 - 440 Seiten
...busy avocations below; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringa (sandpipers) coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming...surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading; clamarous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine... | |
| Thomas Staunton St. Clair - 1834 - 424 Seiten
...; the lovely scarlet currie-currie, flying in flocks along the beech ; the clamorous muscovy-duck, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. He looked at them, and turned his head in silent contemplation ; they were not food for him, for he... | |
| Thomas Staunton St. Clair - 1834 - 426 Seiten
...; the lovely scarlet currie-currie, flying in flocks along the beech ; the clamorous muscovy-duck, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. He looked at them, and turned his head in silent contemplation ; they were not food for him, for he... | |
| James Rennie - 1835 - 408 Seiten
...busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy sandpipers (Tringas) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one whose actions instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in... | |
| 1835 - 566 Seiten
...their busy avocations bel •« the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the Ьшу tringœ coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid roniri zine of nature. High over all these hovers one win.action instantly arrests his attention. By... | |
| 1852 - 670 Seiten
...pur-sue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringre, ing a collection might be intend all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1838 - 642 Seiten
...their busy avocations below — the suoyvyvhite gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy Iringff, 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-hayvk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep.... | |
| Percy Bolingbroke St. John - 1838 - 208 Seiten
...streaming over the surface of the water ; silent and watchful cranes intent and waddling ; clamourous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist...bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High above all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature... | |
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