 | Woodland - 1868 - 186 pages
...flutters in the spray ; She rises often, often drops again, And sports at ease on the tempestuous main. High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's...either side, In a broad space and level line they glide ; N All in their wedge-like figures from the north, Day after day, flight after flight, go forth. Inshore... | |
 | Nicholas Fenwick Hele - 1870 - 234 pages
...individuals in my collection are in perfect winter dress, or nearly so. CHAPTER VIII. WILD FOWL. " High o'er the restless deep above the reach Of gunner's...north, Day after day, flight after flight, go forth." CRABBE. ' I "HE sport occasioned by the arrival of these 1^ birds, tends considerably to make amends... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 pages
...on the tempestuous main. High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's hope, rast flocks of Wild-ducks stretch ; Far as the eye can glance on either side, In-shore their passage tribes of sea-gulls urge, And drop for prey within the sweeping surge ; Oft... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 568 pages
...flutters in the spray; She rises often, often drops again, And sports at ease on the tempestuous main EE 3 High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's hope, vast flights of Wild-ducks stretch; F&r as the eye can glance on either side, In a broad space and level line they glide; All in their... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...tempestuous main. High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunners' hope, vast flocks of wild-duck stretch ; Far as the eye can glance on either side, In a broad space and level line they glide ; AH in their wedge-like figures from the north Day after day, flight after flight, go forth. In-shqre... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...flutters in the spray ; She rises often, often drops again, And sports at ease on the tempestuous main. : 1881 H aud level line they glide ; All in their wedge-like figures from the north, Day after day, flight after... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...sports at ease on tho tempestuous main. High o'er tho restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's hopo, te, late, so late ! and dark the night aud chill !...we cau enter still. Too late, too late ! yo cauuot iu their wedge-like figures from the north, Day after day, flight after flight, go forth. Inshore their... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Mätzner - 1882 - 564 pages
...Jack-boots.). So wird auch das Hinausliegen über den Bereich einer Tbätigkeit durch above bezeichnet: High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's hope, vast flights of wild-ducks stretch (URABBE, The Borough 1.). Die erweiterte wie die einfache Form kommen in gleichem Sinne seit frühester... | |
 | Winter pictures - 1882 - 200 pages
...flutters in the spray ; She rises often, often drops again, And sports at ease on the tempestuous main. High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's hope, vast flights of wild ducks stretch ; Far as the eye can glance on either side, In a broad space and level line they... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 pages
...Mistrusts her coward wings, and seeks again The kind protecting flood. — Somerville : Field Sforts. (15) High o'er the restless deep, above the reach Of gunner's hope, vast flights of wild-duck stretch. Far as the eye can glance on either side, In a broad space and level line they glide.... | |
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Far off, the petrel in the troubled way Swims with her brood, or flutters in the spray; She rises often, often drops again, And sports at ease on the tempestuous main. 
