 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - Страниц: 384
...silence, .solitude, and desolation. When a breeze rises, at first it sighs mournfully through the tops f but as the gale increases, the tall mast-like cedars...occupying a particular part of the swamp. The nests are large, formed of sticks, and lined with smaller twigs ; each occupies the top of a single tree.... | |
 | 1840 - Страниц: 494
...mournfully through the tops ; but as the gale increases, the tall, mastlike cedars wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety...of bears, wolves, and such like comfortable music. Wilson. ECCENTRICITY. ECCENTRICITY is sometimes found connected with genius, but it does not coalesce... | |
 | 1855 - Страниц: 624
...mournfully through the tops ; but as the gale increases, the tall, mastlike cedars wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety...of bears, wolves, and such like comfortable music. Wilson. REVOLUTIONARY ANECDOTES. WE have gleaned from the publications of the day, the following anecdotes... | |
 | John Cotton (F.Z.S.) - 1856 - Страниц: 246
...mournfully through the tops ; but as the gale increases, the tall mast-like cedars wave like fishingpoles rubbing against each other, produce a variety of singular...occupying a particular part of the swamp. The nests are large, formed of sticks, and lined with smaller twigs ; each occupies the top of a single tree.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - Страниц: 720
...through the tops ; but as the gale increases, the tall, mast- like cedars wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety...occupying a particular part of the swamp. The nests are large, formed of sticks and lined with smaller twigs; each occupies the top of a single tree. The... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - Страниц: 758
...mournfully through the tops ; but as the gale increases, the tall, mast-like cedars wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety...occupying a particular part of the swamp. The nests are large, formed of sticks and lined with smaller twigs; each occupies the top of a single tree. The... | |
 | 1876 - Страниц: 1242
...and. motionless, sometimes for hours together. л. -, THE GOLDEN EAGLE. •wave like fishing-poles, and rubbing against each other, produce a variety...cedars the herons construct their nests, ten or fifteen pairs sometimes occupying a particular part of the swamp. The nests are lurgc, formed of slicks and... | |
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... and rubbing against each other, produce a variety of singular noises, that, with the help of a little imagination, resemble shrieks, groans, growling of bears, wolves and such like comfortable music. On the tops of the tallest of these cedars the... 