 ... 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...  The Naturalist - Side 3601831Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 sider
...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 408 sider
...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 406 sider
...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... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 650 sider
...pursue their busy avocations below : the snow-white gulls, slowly winnowing the air ; the busy triiHlir, 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 the air, he knows him to... | |
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