 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish, and the calmness of the day, joined to drenched plumage, rendered... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Fishing - 1832 - 356 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued ; when the herd reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish, and the calmness... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1832 - 690 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued ; when the herd reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish, and the calmness... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 462 pages
...looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a hank that overhung a pool. Presently the hird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle...reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the tish, and the calmness of the day, joined to drenched plumage, rendered... | |
 | 1833 - 460 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle postedion a bank (hat overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and u violent struggle ensued: when the herdsman reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued ; when the herd reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish, and the calmness... | |
 | Percy Bolingbroke St. John - Birds - 1838 - 208 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish ; and when he rose to the surface, his drenched plumage rendered... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...struggle ensued ; when the herdsman reached the spot, ho found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish ; and the calmness of the day, joined... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1845 - 354 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish ; and the calmness of the day, joined to his drenched plumage, rendered... | |
 | Wonders - Birds - 1848 - 496 pages
...very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, ohserved an eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized...reached the spot, he found the Eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish ; and the calmness of the day, joined to his drenched plumage, rendered... | |
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Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the... 
