 | Elisha Jarrett Lewis - Firearms - 1855 - 508 pages
...AMERICANA; AND TRUMPETER SWANCYGNUS BUCINATOR. " The stately sailing Swan Gives out his snowy plumngc to the gale : And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, nnd guards his osier isle, Protective of his young.'' WHERE FOUND, ETC. We have two or more varieties... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...finely-checkered duck before her train Rows garrulous. The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale ; And, arching proud his neck,...with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier-isle, Protective of his young. The turkey nigh, Loud threatening, reddens ; while the peacock... | |
 | Elisha Jarrett Lewis - Firearms - 1857 - 524 pages
...CYGNUS AMERICANA I TRUMPETER SWAN — CYGNUS BUCINATOR. " The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale ; And, arching proud his neck,...with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier- isle, Protective of his young." WHERE FOUND, ETC. E have two or more varieties of swans which... | |
 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 pages
...finely-checker'd duck, before her train, Row s garrulous. The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale ; And, arching proud his neck,...with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier-isle, Protective of his young. The turkey nigh, Loud-threatening,reddens; while the peacock spreads... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1857 - 348 pages
...for manner ; (ie, adjectives for adverbs ;) as, 1. ". The stately-sailing swan, Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale ; And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forwardf/îeres. and guards his osier isle." — Thomson. 2. " Thither continuai pilgrims crowded still."—... | |
 | James Thomson - 1858 - 458 pages
...checker'd duck, before her train, Rows garrulous. The stately sailing swan 775 Gives out his snowy plumaga to the gale ; And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle, Protective of his young. The turkey nigh, Loud threatening, reddens ; while the peacock... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1860 - 354 pages
...quality for manner; (ie, adjectives for adverbs;) as,' 1. " The stately-sailing swan, Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale ; And, arching proud his neck,...with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle." — TAonuton. S. " Thither continual pilgrims crowded still." — Id. X. They form new... | |
 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...finely chequer'd duck before her train Rows garrulous. The stately sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck,...with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier-isle, Protective of his young. The turkey nigh, Loud-threatening, reddens; while the peacock... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...finely chccker'd duck before her train Rows garrulous. The stately sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck,...with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle, Protective of his young. The turkey nigh, Loud threat'niug, reddens; while the peacock... | |
 | G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...reason. Her eggs were above, and only just above, the water." See " .... the stately sailing Swan, . . arching proud his neck, with oary feet, Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle, Protective of his young." Thomson. A change in the atmosphere, and the cat is disturbed,... | |
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The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale, And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier-isle, Protective of his young. 
