 How grey it all was! hardly less so near at hand than on the hazewrapped horizon, where the hills were dim and the outline blurred by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eagle-like, whitebreasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit...  The Procession of Masks - Pagina 112di Herbert Sherman Gorman - 1923 - 256 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Henry Hudson - 1893 - 282 pagine
...would see the large eagleThe Plains of Patagonia. like, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away ;...contrast in the midst of that universal unrelieved greyness. Descending from my look-out, I would take up my aimless wanderings again, and visit other... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 pagine
...by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eaglelike, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away ;...contrast in the midst of that universal unrelieved greyness. Descending from my look-out, I would take up my aimless wanderings again, and visit other... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 506 pagine
...by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eaglelike, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away ;...stationed motionless before me my eyes would remain invol untarily fixed on it, just as one keeps his eyes on a bright light shining in the gloom ; for... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 508 pagine
...by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eaglelike, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away ; and so long as it would conD tinue stationed motionless before me my eyes would remain invol untarily fixed on it, just as... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1908 - 506 pagine
...bush half a mile away ; and so long as it would continnc stationed motionless before me my eyes wonlfl remain involuntarily fixed on it, just as one keeps...contrast in the midst of that universal unrelieved greyness. Descending from my look-out, I would take up my aimless wanderings again, and visit other... | |
 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 pagine
...Sometimes I would see the large eagle-like, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on 20 the summit of a bush half a mile away; and so long...whiteness of the hawk seemed to exercise a fascinating 25 power on the vision, so surpassingly bright was it by contrast in the midst of that universal unrelieved... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1917 - 308 pagine
...by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eagle-like, whitebreasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away;...in the midst of that universal unrelieved grayness. Descending from my look-out, I would take up my aimless wanderings again, and visit other elevations... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1917 - 314 pagine
...by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eagle-like, whitebreasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away;...in the midst of that universal unrelieved grayness. Descending from my look-out, I would take up my aimless wanderings again, and visit other elevations... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pagine
...by distance. Sometimes I would see the large eagle-like, white-breasted buzzard, Buteo erythronotus, perched on the summit of a bush half a mile away;...bright light shining in the gloom; for the whiteness of this hawk seemed to exercise a fascinating power on the vision, so surpassingly bright was it by contrast... | |
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