Her loud, harsh scream of “Wa-wa-wa”, and the piping of the fish-hawk, are sounds which can never be forgotten by any one who has sailed on the rivers north of 20° south. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The fish-hawk makes havoc among the few young ones that escape their other enemies. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A sufficient quantity of soil was now thrown on and over the whole so as to form a neat mound nearly three feet in height, which was beaten smooth with their paddles; and the whole ceremony was completed by the rude figure of a fish-hawk carved on the nearest tree, that being the emblem apparently suggested by the name of the deceased, which might be translated “the swooping warrior”. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This fish-hawk generally kills more prey than it can devour. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The fine fish-hawk, with white head and neck, and reddish-chocolate colored body, may also frequently be seen perched on the trees, and fish are often found dead which have fallen victims to its talons. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Almost every morning, the osprey, or fish-hawk, comes in front of the window and fishes in the shallow water near the house. ❋ Various (N/A)
There was seldom a time during daylight when some fish-hawk could not be seen sailing serenely over the water, looking for a fish for his young fledglings. ❋ Quincy Allen (N/A)
Where now are seen the gay retreats of luxury -- villas half buried in twilight bowers, whence the amorous flute oft breathes the sighings of some city swain -- there the fish-hawk built his solitary nest on some dry tree that overlooked his watery domain. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
While they complained, a fish-hawk flew up from the river with flapping wings, and let fall a great pike in the midst of the camp. ❋ Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels (N/A)
They found it to be a large fish-hawk, with a good-sized salmon in its fierce embrace. ❋ Mrs. William T. Savage (N/A)
There were blue-jays all about us, making the woods ring with their querulous cries, and a single fish-hawk screamed from the blue overhead, as he sailed round and round, watching the chances of a supper in the lake. ❋ Various (N/A)
As we stood there, I saw a fish-hawk stoop to pick a fish out of his pond. ❋ Various (N/A)
All was silent as the tomb, excepting now and then the scream of a fish-hawk or the singing of a hermit-thrush that had approached the bank of the river after the firing had ceased, and seemed singing the funeral dirge of the red warriors who had already fallen. ❋ Hervey Keyes (N/A)
A fish-hawk rose suddenly from the waves and wheeled over their heads. ❋ Amy D. V. Chalmers (N/A)
In such a stream, where the natural enemies of the trout are the fish-hawk and the eagle, it is essential as a matter of protection that the fish should resemble the hue of the bottom, and accordingly, the most superb coloring in the world is theirs. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
A big hawk, not the kind, good fish-hawk, but another kind, who was out looking for early spring chickens, swooped down and tried to carry Susie ❋ Howard Roger Garis (1917)
There's an organ in the parlor, too, with a stuffed fish-hawk on it. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
Why, of course, the fish-hawk that had brought the little lost squirrel home. ❋ Unknown (1910)
GRANDMA and Grandpa Lightfoot were quite surprised when Johnnie and Billie Bushytail and Jacko, the tame squirrel, came home from Newark on the back of the fish-hawk. ❋ Unknown (1910)
"Of course," answered the fish-hawk, "you shall be back here by night." ❋ Unknown (1910)
