 By his wide curvature of wing and sudden 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 on the branch, he watches the result....  Littell's Living Age - Seite 1631851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...curvature of wing, and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish hawk, settling over -ноте devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the...Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep,... | |
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...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, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep,... | |
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