 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pages
...overpowering all opposition. Elevated on a high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems...snow-white Gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy Tringa?, coursing along the sands; trains of Ducks, streaming over the surface; silent and watchful... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 pages
...overpowering all opposition. Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems...tribes that pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white "gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringz coursing along the sands; trains of ducks... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 pages
...overpowering all opposition. Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems...tribes that pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy trings coursing along the sands; trains of ducks... | |
 | 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 - 1820 - 474 pages
...white-headed eagle : — " Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the feathered tribes that pursue their avocations below. High over all hovers one whose actions instantly... | |
 | 1826 - 376 pages
...procuring the latter, he displays in a very singular manner his cunning and his power, which bear down all opposition. " Elevated," says Wilson, in his American...busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls, slowly wincowing the air; the busy tringae coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming over the surface;... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...Elevated upon a high dead limh of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighh'ouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered trihes that pursue their husy avocations helow : the mow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 pages
...overwhelming all opposition. Elevated upon a high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems...tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy trings coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 pages
...overwhelming all opposition. Elevated upon a high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems...tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringre coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 650 pages
...Elevated upon a high, dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighboring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the...snowwhite gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringte, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks, streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pages
...overpowering all opposition. Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems...winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along I the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful cranes intent and wading... | |
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... 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. 
