It was the look of the sharp-shinned hawk hovering for an instant, in sheer intellectual abandon and physical exuberance, above the unconscious oriole bent upon its morning bath.
Cooper's hawk having a rounded tail with whitish tip, and the sharp-shinned hawk a square tail.
Skinny was the first to get on his feet and the way he shinned up the tree again was a caution.
Then I threw out the other end, climbed out myself, and shinned down.
The Sharp-shinned Hawk, and the Great Horned Owl are held over for further trial!
We accordingly shinned up the ratlines together, and were soon comfortably settled on the fore-topsail-yard.
Four of these are Cooper's Hawk, the Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Pigeon Hawk and Duck Hawk.
This time he shinned up a sapling, the nearest tree to him.
Reaching the ground, he eyed the tree critically, then shinned up it with somewhat more speed than he had climbed in the first instance.
He started to climb it, then changing his mind grabbed up a rope and shinned up the tree occupied by Charlie.
He climbed on the roof and shinned down the broken bricks of the outer wall.
I was mighty thankful when I got him panting on the top and Hussin had shinned up beside us.
He shinned up a tree and observed the broad shoulders of Pat wallowing up the bank over by the railroad.
I have seen a sharp-shinned hawk pick up a highhole from the turf in a twinkling under just such conditions.
I have seen jays tease the sharp-shinned hawk in this way, and escape his retaliating blows by darting into a cedar-tree.
In another minute our boat was alongside on her starboard quarter, and the pinnace on her larboard quarter; we shinnedup her low sides, and before the watch on deck could rub their eyelids open, we had her.
But when I proceeded to take the latter in, I found that the halliards were somehow jammed aloft, and I shinnedup to clear them.
They dropped from the wall into the grounds, and shinned up a small tree whose thick-laden branches overhung the edge of the road.
I shinned down so fast that a branch broke and I partly fell the rest of the way along the trunk, and tore my shirt and scraped a big patch of skin from my chest.
When next I reached a ridgy spot I chose a good pine and shinned it.
Half an hour later, two wearied perspiring figures shinned up the cord under the angle of the chapel wall at Saint Kirwin's, and so ended another night of excitement and adventure--as they thought.
The sparrow might as well dodge its own shadow as to dodge the sharp-shinned hawk.
Quickly dropping his homely vehicle, little Lucien ran for a tree and shinnedup it without loss of time.
Lucien made a mad dash for a tree nearby, up which he shinned and hid far up in the foliage.
A searching party headed by Anderson Crow shinnedup the ladder to the low garret.
He shinned up the ladder into the garret just in time.
Pausing merely for a second or two to note these facts and recover breath, he shinned up the bare pole like a monkey, and got inside the ball.
Many a London lamp-post had he shinnedup in his day.
I let myself down through a skylight into the bowels of the place: found, with the help of matches, the operating box and the gallery, switched on the lights, and shinned down a pillar to the stalls.
The way he said it impressed me, and I fairly shinned back to the Ring.
He turned, cautiously making his way back, when the lively, mischievous little fellows shinned up the rope by which he had let himself down to the serial bars.
Phil shinned the rope to the trapeze perch, hand over hand, the muscles standing out on his arms as he made the ascent, with as much ease as he would walk to the dressing room, and perhaps even with less effort.
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