... 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 all these... Wild Scenes and Song-birds - Σελίδα 298των Charles Wilkins Webber - 1858 - 347 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 σελίδες
...pursue their busy avocations below: the snow-white Gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy Tringa?, 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 air, he knows him to be... | |
| 1918 - 436 σελίδες
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| William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 σελίδες
...pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy trings 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 air, he knows him to be... | |
| William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 σελίδες
...pursue their busy avocations below; the snow white "gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringz 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 air, be knows him to be... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 σελίδες
...pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests all attention. By his wide curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in the air, he knows him to be... | |
| 1826 - 450 σελίδες
...pursue their husy avocations helow : the mow white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the husy Tringœ coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks streaming...clamorous crows and all the winged multitudes that suhsist hy the hounty of the vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 648 σελίδες
...pursue their busy avocations below — the snowwhite gulls, slowly winnowing the air; the busy tringee, coursing along the sands ; trains of ducks, streaming...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.... | |
| George Montagu - 1831 - 670 σελίδες
...busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tring<e (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 air, he knows him to be... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 σελίδες
...avocations below : the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringae coursing along I the sands ; trains of ducks streaming over the surface...all 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... | |
| 1832 - 406 σελίδες
...busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy tringcB (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 air, he knows him to be... | |
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