From the summit of one of these they had caught a bird's-eye view of its boisterous career for a great distance through the heart of the mountain, with impending rocks and cliffs.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

The product of a large store of reading has been here secreted anew for the reader who desires to see, in bird's-eye view, the light and shade of a long and varied period of poetic literature, by way of preparation for Shakespeare, [9] (with a full essay upon whom the volume closes,) explaining Shakespeare, so far as he can be explained by literary antecedents.

The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context

From this bird's-eye view he realized the monstrous confusion of their excited workings.

Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context

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