| Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 str.
...incessu patuit" Tbaa kites and buzzards sail round in circlet with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gleads, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide. The kestrel or windhover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in the... | |
| Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 str.
...vera incMsu patuit Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gleadf, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide. The kestrel or wind-hover, has a peculiar mode of hanging... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 str.
...incessu patuit. "Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gleads, from the Saxon word glidan, to glide. The kestrel, or wind-hover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in... | |
| Stephen Glover - 1831 - 510 str.
...incessu patuit • Thus kiict and Tnuaardi sail around in circles with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gkadi, from the Saxon verb glUan, to glide. The keitrcl or winaJiover, has a peculiar mode of hanging... | |
| T Forster - 1832 - 144 str.
...movement of birds. "Thus Kites and Buzzards sail round in circles and wings expanded and motionless; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England Gleads, from the Saxon verb Glidan, to glide. The Kestrel, or Windhover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in... | |
| Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 str.
...incessu patuit." Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gleads, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide. The kestrel or windhover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in the... | |
| Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 str.
...incessu patuit." Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gleads, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide. The kestrel, or windhover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 618 str.
...incessu patuit." Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles with wings expanded and motionless: and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England pleads, from (he Saxon verb yiiilau, to glide. The kestrel or wind-horer has a peculiar mode of hanging... | |
| Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 str.
...incessu patuit. Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles, with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former...are still called, in the north of England, gleads, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide. The kestrel, or windhover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in... | |
| Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 str.
...incessu patuit ." Thus kites and buzzards sail round in circles with wings expanded and motionless ; and it is from their gliding manner that the former are still called in the north of England gleads, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide. The kestril or wind-hover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in... | |
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