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The Water World: A Popular Treatise on the Broad, Broad Ocean. Its Laws; Its ... - Page 347
by J. Wesley Van Dervoort - 1886 - 502 pages
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Curious Experiments for Preventing the Waste of Honey, and Preserving the ...

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
...devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-open wing on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid...descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of his wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 9

Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...suspension in the air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings ou the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...
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The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and halancing himself with half opened wings, on the hranch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from Heaven, descends the distant ohject of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making...
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The North American Review, Volume 24

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...and balancing himself, with half opened wings, on the branch he watches the result. Down, rapid aj an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object...his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the esfr as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment tho looks of the Eagle...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 1

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight ; and balancing himself with half open wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down,...wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and levelling his neck for flight, he...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1829 - 466 pages
...some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight ; and, balancing himself with half open wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down,...wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep. At this moment, the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour ; and, levelling his neck for flight, be...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 4

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 648 pages
...all his attention. He knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself...arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of bis attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 4

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1830 - 650 pages
...all his attention. He knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself...branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow frotn heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear...
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The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated: Birds

Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...suspension in the air, he knows him to be the Fish-Hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings THE WHITE-HEADED SEA-EAGLE. 43 on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven,...
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The American Common-place Book of Prose: A Collection of Eloquent and ...

American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fishhawk settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself...attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear 11.1 it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the looks of the eagle...
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