 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - Страниц: 470
...for a long " time, with wonderful swiftness, pursue the fish ; " and when they have caught them, rise to the top " of the water, and pressing the fish lightly with " their bills, swallow them ; till each bird hath, " after this manner, devoured five or six fishes. " Then their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - Страниц: 510
...for a long time, with wonderful swiftness, pur* sue the fish; and when they have caught them, rise to the top of the water, and pressing the fish lightly with their bills, swallow them, till each bird hath, after this manner, devoured five or six fishes. Then their keepers... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - Страниц: 612
...there for a long time, with wonderful swiftness, pursue the fish ; and when they have caught them, rise to the top of the water, and pressing the fish lightly with their bills, swallow them, till each bird hath, after this manner, devoured five or six fishes. Then their keepers... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - Страниц: 586
...for a long time, with wonderful swiftness, pursue the fish ; and, when they have caught them, rise to the top of the water, and pressing the fish lightly with their bills, swallow them ; till each bird hath, after this manner, devoured five or six fishes. Then their keepers... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - Страниц: 376
...long time, with wonderful swiftness, pursue the fish ; and, when they have caught them, rise to th« top of the water, and pressing the fish lightly with their bills, swallow them ; till each bird has, after this manner, devoured five or six fishes. Then their keepers... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - Страниц: 640
...off their hoods, and having tied a leather thong round the lower part of their necks, that they may not swallow down the fish they catch, they throw them...five or six fishes ; then their keepers call them to tho fist, to which they readily fly, and, little by little, one after another, vomit up all their fish,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - Страниц: 382
...off their hoods, and having tied a leather thong round the lower part of their necks, that they may not swallow down the fish they catch, they throw them...presently to the top of the water, and pressing the fish tightly with their bills, they swallow them, till each bird hath in this manner swallowed five or six... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - Страниц: 370
...not swallow down the fish they catch, they throw them into the river. They presently dive underwater, and there for a time, with wonderful swiftness, they...presently to the top of the water, and pressing the fish tightly with their bills, they swallow them, till each bird hath in this manner swallowed five or six... | |
 | 1834 - Страниц: 700
...for a long time, with wonderful swiftness, pursue the fish ; and, when they have caught them, rise to the top of the water, and, pressing the fish lightly with their bills, swallow them ; till each bird has, after this wanner, devoured five or sk fishes. Then their keepers... | |
 | 1925 - Страниц: 996
...into the Kiver. They presently dive under water, and therei for a long time with wonderful swiftness pursue the fish, and when they have caught them they...their bills they swallow them; till each Bird hath after this manner devoured five or six fishes. Then their Keepers call them to the fist, to which they... | |
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When they are come to the rivers, they take off their hoods, and having tied a leather thong round the lower part of their necks that they may not swallow down the fish they catch, they throw them into the river. They presently dive Under water, and there... 
