 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 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...intent and wading; clamorous crows; and all the winged multitude that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - 1906 - 566 Seiten
...pursue their busy avocations below: the snowy white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy Fringas coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming...multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast magazine of nature." Peter S. Duponceau was born in France and studied to be a priest. He could ill... | |
 | Witmer Stone - 1937 - 602 Seiten
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 | James Johonnot - 2008 - 444 Seiten
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 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 632 Seiten
...slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringa, coursing along the sands; trains of ducks, streaming over thf surface ; silent and watchful cranes, intent and wading...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.... | |
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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... 
