 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...moment the eager looks of the Eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the FishHawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our hero, who, lanching into the air, instantly gives chace, soon gains on the Fish-Hawk,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on the fish-hawk,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on the fish-hawk,... | |
 | A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston - Agriculture - 1820 - 474 pages
...moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and, levelling his neck for the flight, he sees the fishhawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...mounting in the air with screams of exultation. These are signals for the eagle, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on the fish-hawk... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...with his prey, and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. This is the signal for the eagle, who, launching into the air instantly gives chase,...soon gains on the fish-hawk; each exerts his utmost power to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most elegant and sublime aerial... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour, and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. This is the signal for our hero, who, launching in the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains on... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...levelling his neck for flight he sees the fish-hawk emerge, struggling with his prey, and mounting into the air with screams of exultation. These are the...who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on the fish-hawk, each exerts his utmost to mount ahove the other, displaymg in these rencounters... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. This is the signal for the eagle, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, and soon gains... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...the air with screams of exultation. These are the signal for ourhero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains on the fish-hawk... | |
 | Natural history - 1829 - 526 pages
...moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour; and levelling his neck for flight, he sees the fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling with his prey,...and mounting in the air with screams of exultation. '1 hese are the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air, instantly gives chase, soon gains... | |
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Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all... 
