| Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1853 - 456 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below. The snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy fringes, coursing along the sands; trains of ducks, streaming over the surface; silent and watchful crams, intent and wading; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1854 - 528 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below. The snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy fringes, 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 the air, he knows him to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 Seiten
...black : the tail feathers, the first half black, the end half white ; legs naked.1 tringa (sandpipers) coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...watchful cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and ail the winged multitudes that subsist hy the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 932 Seiten
...coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; cranes silent and watchful, intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged...multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast magazine of nature. " High over all these, hovers one, whose action arrests all his attention. By his... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 802 Seiten
...tlong the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; cranes silent and watchful, intent tod wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast magazine of nature. " High over all these, hovers one, whose action arrests all his attention. By his... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 Seiten
...feathered tribes that pursue their hnsy avocations below : the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent...and watchful cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous crowa, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 Seiten
...: the tail feathers, the first half black, the end half white ; legt naked.» tringjc (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 the air, he knows him to... | |
| 1857 - 452 Seiten
...avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy 48 THE BALD EAGLE. Yungae, coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks, streaming...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... | |
| British land birds - 1857 - 318 Seiten
...watchful cranes, intent and wading ; and all the other winged multitudes that subsist on the stores of this vast liquid magazine of nature. "High over...all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to... | |
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