 | Edna Barth - 2000 - 108 Seiten
...Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a Bird of bad moral character; like those among Men who live by Sharping and Robbing, he is generally poor and often very lousy. The Turkey is a much more respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of North America." From... | |
 | Jon Gower - 2001 - 156 Seiten
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 | Leslie Leyland Fields - 2002 - 376 Seiten
...wrote of the eagle after it was selected as our national symbol over his own favorite, the turkey: "Like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor and often very lousy." In places with clearer water, eagles are known to dive for fish, but here they rarely even circle the... | |
 | C. C. Bombaugh - 2003 - 648 Seiten
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... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among... 
