| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 372 pagina’s
...they united or separated, that I was never tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, from a great...followed the exact path of those that went before. As these vast bodies passed over the river near me, the surface of the water, which was before smooth... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 pagina’s
...they united or separated, that I was never tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, from a great...as quick as lightning, that part shot downwards out pf the common track ; but, soon rising again, continued advancing at the same height as before. This... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 pagina’s
...they united or separated, that I never was tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a Hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, from a great...continued advancing at the same height as before. 1 his inflection was continued by those behind, who, on arriving at this point, dived down, almost... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pagina’s
...they united or separated, that I was never tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, from a great...followed the exact path of those that went before. As these vast bodies passed over the river near me, the surface of the water, which was before smooth... | |
| John George Wood - 1855 - 478 pagina’s
...the heavens resembling the windings of a vast aud majestic river. . . . Sometimes a hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, from a great...followed the exact path of those that went before." The following group comprises the most conspicuous varieties of the Domestic Pigeon. All these birds,... | |
| 1857 - 528 pagina’s
...they united or separated, that I never was tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a Hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, from a great...followed the exact path of those that went before. As these vast bodies passed over the river near me, the surface of the water, which was before smooth... | |
| John George Wood - 1862 - 804 pagina’s
...tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, when, almost as quick as lightning, that part shot...soon rising again, continued advancing at the same rate as before. This reflection was continued by those behind, who on arriving at this point dived... | |
| John George Wood - 1862 - 804 pagina’s
...would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, when, almost as quick as A PIGEON EOOST. 579 lightning, that part shot downwards out of the common...soon rising again, continued advancing at the same rate as before. This reflection was continued by those behind, who on arriving at this point dived... | |
| John George Wood - 1862 - 804 pagina’s
...would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, when, almost as qnick as A PIGEON EOOST. 579 lightning, that part shot downwards out of the common...soon rising again, continued advancing at the same rate as before. This reflection was continued by those behind, who on arriving at this point dived... | |
| John George Wood - 1831 - 802 pagina’s
...tired of contemplating them. Sometimes a hawk would make a sweep on a particular part of the column, when, almost as quick as lightning, that part shot...soon rising again, continued advancing at the same rate as before. This reflection was continued by those behind, who on arriving at this point dived... | |
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