 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 various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls...  The Monthly Review - Page 3871832Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...exerted but on particular occasions; but when put forth, overpowering all opposition. Elevated on a high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands...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 - Natural history - 1819 - 406 pages
...not exerted but on particular occasions ; but when putforth, overpowering all opposition. Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...not exerted but on particular occasions; but when put forth, overpowering all opposition. Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that...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... | |
 | 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
...American ornithologist, gives the following description of the white-headed eagle : — " Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that...he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the feathered tribes that pursue their avocations below. High over all hovers one whose actions instantly... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...Attributes not exerted but on particular occasions, but when put forth overpowering all opposition. Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that...snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air, the busy tringae coursing along the sands, trains of ducks streaming over the surface, silent and watchful cranes,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...his power, which bear down all opposition. " Elevated," says Wilson, in his American Ornithology " on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a high view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various... | |
 | Literature - 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... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...Wilson, inhis American Ornithology, " on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands a high view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motjons of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...exerted but on particular ocasions; but when put forth, overwhelming all opposition. Elevated upon a high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands...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 - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...exerted but on particular ocasions ; but when put forth, overwhelming all opposition. Elevated upon a high dead limb of some gigantic tree, that commands...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... | |
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