| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - Страниц: 392
...the Sun, Audubon saw-, at his leisure, immense legions still going by, and he says, " But I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...noise like thunder, they rushed into a compact mass, feathers of the tail close together, and closing the wings, they thereby render the action of the air... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - Страниц: 760
...at the Sun, Audubon saw, at his leisure, immense legions still going by, and he says, " But I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...with a noise like thunder, they rushed into a compact nuns, feathers of the tail close together, and closing the wiogs, they thereby render the action of... | |
| John James Audubon - 1832 - Страниц: 564
...them with a capital rifle proved ineffectual; nor did the reports disturb them in the least. I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the centre. In these almost solid masses, they darted forward in undulating and angular lines,... | |
| James Rennie - 1835 - Страниц: 408
...them with a capital rifle proved ineffectual ; nor did the reports disturb them in the least. I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the centre. In these almost solid masses, they darted forward in undulating and angular lines,... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - Страниц: 604
...rifle-shot, and were even undisturbed by the report of the discharge. " I cannot," he adds, " describe the extreme beauty of their aerial evolutions when...rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the centre. In these almost solid masses they darted forward in undulating and angular lines,... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1836 - Страниц: 430
...yield to the temptation of inserting a striking passage which occurs in this account:—" I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...compact mass, pressing upon each other toward the centre. In these almost solid masses, they darted forward in undulating and angular lines, descended,... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1839 - Страниц: 422
...yield to the temptation of inserting a striking passage which occurs in this account : — " I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...flock. At once, like a torrent, and with a noise like thuuder, they rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the centre. In these almost... | |
| Henry Duncan (D.D.) - 1847 - Страниц: 430
...yield to the temptation of inserting a striking passage which occurs in this account : — ' I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the centre. In these almost solid masses, they darted forward in undulating and angular lines,... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1847 - Страниц: 430
...yield to the temptation of inserting a striking passage which occurs in this account : — " I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the centre. In these almost solid masses, they darted forward in undulating and angular lines,... | |
| 1851 - Страниц: 534
...them with a capital rifle proved ineffectual; nor did the reports disturb them in the least. I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of their aerial...rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each other towards the centre. -In these almost solid masses, they darted forward in undulating and angular lines,... | |
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