| 单词 | eyrie |
| 例句 | Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He kept his eye on the eyrie skating platform and obviously he couldn’t go with Doc to La Jolla. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyrie was a small house on a hill above Berkeley, which afforded with hallucinatory clarity a view of San Francisco Bay. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z In his eyrie on the sixth floor, Crockett tells me that casting for a musical takes about six weeks. 'Next!': the secretive world of casting directors 2013-05-21T18:30:01Z The site of his retreat is a squalid apartment, the eyrie of the title, perched on the top floor of the 10-story Mirador. ‘Eyrie’ by Tim Winton, a remarkable novel about a bitter environmentalist in Australia And my younger eyes loved the view from that eyrie. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Swan Lake? at New York City Ballet - Review 2011-09-14T22:29:22Z It was to be my very own little eyrie. Once upon a life: Paul Bailey 2011-01-09T00:05:19Z From the moment I woke up for the first time in my eyrie to the day of my departure for England in December I had amassed enough experience to last me forever. Once upon a life: Paul Bailey 2011-01-09T00:05:19Z After learning of the location of a nest occupied by a family of elusive harpy eagles, film-maker Fergus Beeley set up his own eyrie high in the canopy above the Orinoco rainforest of Venezuela . Natural World 2010-07-08T07:00:00Z It is one of the few hyper-luxury apartment buildings that actually has the ethereal aura you would expect – a fitting costume for the eyrie of an untouchable elite. Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York's super-rich 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z From this 1,100-foot eyrie, the highest in the western United States, you can observe the glint of other towers rising up over downtown, transforming the skyline. 'This is definitely a moment': Olympics crown LA's remarkable renaissance 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z He now occupies a unique position at the top of his own skyscraper, a steel-and-glass eyrie from which he surveys a city he has helped shape. 'The building creaks and sways': life in a skyscraper 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Iman would say her husband, secluded in his rooftop eyrie overlooking downtown New York, was always working, that he read the British papers, avidly kept up with the nation’s political news. ‘First Lou Reed, now David Bowie. That’s it for New York. It’s over’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Discrete talks in the eyrie of Davos in January led to a spontaneous, light bulb moment on a stage in Oslo in February. Oil bosses break long climate silence with urgent initiative 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z One protestor suspended 10m off the woodland floor screamed in apparent pain as he was prised from his rope net eyrie, handcuffed and squeezed into a harness before lowering him the ground to be arrested. Road scheme protesters 'to lose' 2013-01-10T07:30:58Z From his rooftop eyrie, Phillips looks towards three other sampling sites around the city and another some 70 miles west, in the green hills outside the pollution zone. The science of cities: Life in the concrete jungle 2012-11-21T18:20:57.357Z Roman Abramovich, sitting high in his East Stand eyrie, would certainly have been wondering what had happened to the £130m he invested in the quartet. Red cards ruin Chelsea's attacking comeback and Oscar's brilliance 2012-10-28T22:38:00Z For they had sailed up to the eagles' eyrie in time to see the sun rise! Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z To prevent confusion, it may be as well to mention here that the term "haggard" and "passage-hawk" both mean a wild-caught hawk; while "eyas" signifies a bird taken from the nest or eyrie. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He and Luachan also knew where the golden eagle built her eyrie. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z In the bows, perched like an eagle above his eyrie, was Captain Crouch. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z And midway between Harry Urquhart and the half-caste guide, standing upright at the central angle, was Sheikh Bayram, the Black Dog of the Cameroons, like a great bird of prey perched above its eyrie. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z It is easy to understand why trade left this half-inaccessible eyrie. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Those walls and towers basking in the sunshine were the eyrie that lorded it over leagues of country seen and unseen--the hawk's nest, the plebis flagellum, as the old chronicler has it. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z She woke with a shudder to a Babel of shouts and laughter, and slowly descended from her eyrie, trembling with mortal apprehension. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He gave a few brief husky orders, then groped his way, as if in darkness, to the retired eyrie where had dwelt the vanished chatelaine. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z It is a mere eyrie, a collection of rude stone hovels, one above the other, among which the Khan's house is distinguishable only by its balakhana and larger size. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z And the next time you come to perch at a neighbouring establishment, I shall sweep down on you from my eyrie. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Fairer eyrie, or stronger, is scarce to be found in the width of three provinces. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The Prince waved and smiled in return, from his eyrie above the bridge, while fresh boats raced alongside, and continually restarted the hubbub. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z From her eyrie she looked straight down upon half the Umbrian country, and gazing daily on so fair a land the desire for possession grew ever stronger. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z You will have to seek them in some other eyrie. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Right down beneath them is the eyrie, quite one hundred feet from the top. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Without was Vlaye, within was fear; while, like ravens waiting for the carnage, the horde of Old Crocans on the hill looked down from their filthy eyrie. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z A tall pine tree, near water, or the rocky ledge of some steep cliff, is the favourite site for an eagle eyrie. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z This is the bird that is credited with feats of hurling hunters from perilous positions down crag or crevass, carrying off children to its eyrie, and kidnapping unguarded babes. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z It prefers mountains or extensive forests, building its eyrie either on rocks or lofty trees. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The top of the cliff projects farther than the eyrie itself; in his descent the rope had oscillated with his weight, and he had unknowingly been swung on to the ledge of rock. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z Gray days made only a suaver magic, thunderstorms a madder enchantment, about her eyrie. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Fitted rather to be the eyrie of eagles than the abode of men, it looks down from the verge of precipitous cliffs nearly three thousand feet above sea level. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z For some days we sought in vain: at last we espied an eyrie which appeared to give promise of success. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Sounds shaped themselves into something like articulation, and the following couplet was distinctly heard:— "While the eagle is in his nest, the eaglet shall not prevail, Nor shall the eagle be smitten in his eyrie." The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z Rory has reached the eyrie, he grasps the rock, and scrambles on to the projecting ledge. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z On the pinnacle was their nest and young, and that was why the female had kept watch and ward over her eyrie, and also why she had not abandoned it even when I approached. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Anthony knew that, and chanced finding his eyrie untenanted. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z Not a motion of those rigid pinions till close to the mouth of the eyrie, then the great wings closed, and the bird disappeared within its cave. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z What if a howling storm should swoop down upon them, while they were away from the cabin and up here in this elevated eyrie? Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country 2011-10-21T02:00:18.430Z From our eyrie in the hills we looked down at night on the glow in the sky, east, south and west, that told of jungles blazing around us. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z He came into the dining car that morning, refreshed and exalted, and overlooking and sweeping as an eagle in his first morning swing from his eyrie. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z This fascinating book on the Peregrine Falcon—the grandest bird of prey left in England—combines the salient facts of almost innumerable field notes written at the eyrie itself. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z Softly, sweet River, softly by the cliff, Where in his eyrie the spent eagle sleeps! Vacation Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:09.897Z It may seem ungallant to say so," he had said, "but that is one of my reasons for choosing to perch myself in this eyrie. Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls 2011-09-09T02:01:09.477Z From my new eyrie I had a composite view of startling contrasts. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z It was the perilous eyrie upon which this same bull-like assassin had picked him off like a sitting pigeon and boasted of it not half an hour before. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z These records are now set forth in a wonderful narrative which discloses the life history of the Peregrine Falcon from the moment of its hatching to the day it finally leaves the eyrie. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z But on his own responsibility he had kindled the blaze which materially aided the swift return of the Sea Eagle to her eyrie. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z The eagle mounts skyward, rising higher and higher, in ever widening circles, standing out against the sky, then soaring away beyond the vision to his eyrie in the gaping gorge of the lofty crest. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z The last night's storm must have surprised these wanderers in their eyrie, and carried them before it, till they sought shelter in these mountains. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z "And the threat—which inspires these phantasms?" he said, as the musical tones ceased, and the murmur of the sea came up to them in their eyrie. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The forms “eyrie” or “eyry” date from a 17th century attempt to derive the word from the Teutonic ey, an egg. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z I can do no justice to that wild, eyrie style of oratory. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z There a black and yawning fissure whose polished sides would hardly seem to afford resting-place for the eyrie of yon great war-eagle soaring high above, his plumage gleaming in the lustre of the new-born day. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Shut off from the world for days they remained thus in their lofty eyrie among the crags. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z There was a profound silence up in that lofty eyrie, and the long-continued strain they had been subjected to made them more liable to the sad influence of the surroundings. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z A Circassian aoul, perched like an eyrie on the highest crest of the adjacent mountains, is a dangerous neighbour for the water drinkers. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Here in the eyrie of the Screaming Eagles, it is business as usual. Gauging the mood 2011-06-22T02:28:48Z Beyond that the boy's wings could not soar, though his tail-feathers had surmounted the eyrie of the Cathedral. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The wind had grown much higher, and was soughing and moaning round our eyrie. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z A transparent wood of gold-green birches climbed, in the high grass over there, the sides of the northern mountain, on whose summit five tall fir-trees, as ruins of a prostrated forest, held their eyrie. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z My home will have to be the rugged hills where the eagle hath his eyrie, or the dense forest where prowls the wolf, and where the lordly red deer roam at will. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Hither comes the young, weary-looking mother, having locked up her young family in her eyrie. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z It was this which Jack had seen from his lofty eyrie in the treetop. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z After that he lay for some time like a wounded eagle in his eyrie, his mind as active as ever. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Many animals are attached to peculiar situations, the chamois, on the Alpine cliff,—the eagle, soaring to his eyrie,—and the beaver located by some unfrequented stream, give evidence of a similar tendency. Christian Phrenology A Guide to Self-Knowledge 2011-04-03T02:00:15.543Z The bird is common to the northern parts of both hemispheres, and places its eyrie on high precipitous rocks. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z Then, well-satisfied with her accomplishment, and feeling that she could do no more at present for these two, she retired to her eyrie in the hayloft, entirely forgetful of the unhappy Paul. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z Opposite to Jefferson's Rock and on the Loudoun side of the Shenandoah, there grew, at that time a gigantic oak which had been, from time immemorial, the eyrie of a family of eagles. The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country 2011-03-04T03:00:59.137Z From her moist eyrie in the surf the old gum boot descried the group upon the beach each pleasant day. A Little Book of Profitable Tales 2011-03-03T03:00:47.690Z From our lofty eyrie we look eastward, and make out a clearly-marked ridge which is well known to us as the Aubers ridge. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z As the time passed and not a sound was to be heard, God alone knew what was being transacted in that frowning eyrie under the cover of the night. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Mother Mandarin was in her den—or rather in her eyrie. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z The fog had thickened, and the windows in the little eyrie of a kitchen glimmered coldly opaque. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z From this castle, as the eagle from his eyrie, its lawless owner overlooked his domain, and heard no human sound above him. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Also from his eyrie, the captain, armed with a long telescope, could gaze at outward and homeward-bound ships, and so enjoy vicariously the sea-life he had abandoned these ten years. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z And if tradition was to be trusted, the Gabriel lords had dwelt like eagles in their eyrie, swooping down at intervals to harry and plunder, burn and slay the peaceful folk of the plains. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z I do not love The eyrie, but low woodland nest Of cushat dove: Not wind, but calm; not toil, but rest And sleep in grassy meadow's breast. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z From this eyrie one looks down upon the Cathedral, which is a very costly edifice, and was thirty-one years in building,—the funds being frequently exhausted, and money for the purpose difficult to raise. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Lionel, hoping to get into conversation, left his eyrie and joined him in the pit. The Gay Adventure A Romance Far from its native eyrie, high in air, Above the extended plain, The Teuton Eagle hovers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890 The women who understand can make a home in a boarding-house or in foreign lodgings; in a camp on the desert or in an eyrie in the mountains. The Preliminaries And Other Stories He has made an eyrie in our mountains, and his scream has been heard in our wars. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 These are prepared and made into rope by the custodians of the bridge, who must be glad of some occupation in their lone and lofty eyrie. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 "Go it, my vixen," he jeered down from his eyrie. A Traitor's Wooing The place was entirely deserted, except for an eagle that swooped out of her eyrie and floated above the newcomers' heads. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series Now and then a whole face of an antique pile was illuminated; now some little eyrie that seemed hanging in air burst into flame; now a line of terraces began to twinkle. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands A sharp command, a quick vaulting into the saddles, and the guerilla band was off to its eyrie in the mountains. Bert Wilson at Panama Margaret was standing by a table in the eyrie's dining-room, arranging in two brown jugs a mass of yellow jessamine which she had brought in from the barrens. East Angels From the eyrie of the years the ages had passed unmarked, unnoticed. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel The bird's-eye view obtained of Copenhagen and surroundings from this eyrie is one to be long and vividly remembered. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia From that eyrie one can see how difficult must be the work of control over the great, growling beast of a city. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel And here on a higher terrace of the basalt cliff, like an eyrie—or, perhaps more fittingly, a swallow's nest—was perched the pastor's home. Where the Pavement Ends "His good looks, I confess, I have never seen," answered Mrs. Thorne, who was paying a morning visit at the eyrie. East Angels Suddenly the bird let go its grip of his neck and took hold of his head in its claws, with the idea of carrying him off to its eyrie. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Visit to Port Royal—Dockyard—Town—Church—Fort Augusta—The eyrie in the mountains—Ride to Newcastle—Society in Jamaica—Religious bodies—Liberty and authority. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Must the stronghold of the Emperor--God bless the protector of justice--at Constantinople become the third eyrie which is destroyed for their sake? The Scarlet Banner There it would be his duty to keep a vigilant eye on the forest stretching far away below his lofty eyrie, and to report the start of a forest fire. The Book of Courage Much as he admired Mrs. Rutherford, he did not present himself at the eyrie; his mirror told him that he had not the proper expression. East Angels When they reached the Fall Place, David continued along the main road below and took a trail farther on, merely a foot trail little used, to his eyrie. The Mountain Girl Elsewhere in the grounds there was a lawn tennis court to tempt the officers down from their eyrie in the clouds. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The eagle stole from the sacrifice burning on the altar a piece of meat and bore it to his eyrie. The Scarlet Banner It certainly could never be done; and with the Maine boy keeping watch on things from his eyrie amid the piled-up rocks. The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine A day or two after his midnight musings on the beach, Evert Winthrop was coming down Pacheco Lane towards the eyrie when he heard, in a long, sweet, distant note, "Good-by." East Angels But what was the use of all this treasure to them if they could not get out of this eyrie? The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries ‘Note.—These magnolia slabs were placed in a green-house, not in the “eyrie.”’ The Woodlands Orchids The Roman eagle, too, will not long have its eyrie here. The Scarlet Banner I saw three witches That mocked the poor sparrows They carried in cages of wicker along, Till a hawk from his eyrie Swooped down like an arrow, Smote on the cages, and ended their song. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems "We were home long before you," said Mrs. Rutherford, when Winthrop, having brought his reflections to a close, and enjoyed another gallop, returned to the eyrie. East Angels Where the Raven finds shelter for its nest, there, too, the Peregrine has its eyrie—and so it happens that these two species are continually at war. Territory in Bird Life From my eyrie in the rocks, the coast line went away in a succession of broken and porous cliffs which I had explored for a distance of perhaps two miles. The Portal of Dreams Any one who has visited this now ruined castle, some twenty miles from Parma, will remember the threadlike way between rocks covered with brambles, by which its eyrie height is approached. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens It nests in rocky cliffs in April and from its eyrie darts upon passing Pigeons and other birds. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season But his visit was short; before three o'clock he was again at the eyrie. East Angels Shrill as the eagle's cry disturbed in his eyrie, he sends a shout down the glen—and Flora, with cheeks pale and bright by fits, is at last at his side. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The grey eagle in his lofty eyrie; the gold-crested vulture-hawk; creatures that live the strenuous life of the silent lands, fowl that live by war. In the Brooding Wild The eagles may return to their eyrie, the panthers retreat to their lair, but you will have no home, no rest, and, till time dies, no tomb.” Mary Magdalen From the lofty eyrie of the ages, set free by art, the soul contemplates suffering as in a vision, no longer aware whether that suffering belongs to the present or to the past. The Forerunners The eyrie had become "tiresome," the fragrance of the orange flowers "enervating;" as for pine barrens, she never wished to see a pine barren again. East Angels Gone in the sunshine, and haply seated in his eyrie on Ben Lomond's head. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Mounting laboriously but swiftly, they had reached the present eyrie by noon. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 Ahead there was a wee white house, apparently balanced like an eagle's nest in an inaccessible eyrie. The Recipe for Diamonds Bothwell, again, now desperate, may have lately been nearer home than was known; finally, Fastcastle, the isolated eyrie on its perpendicular rock above the Northern Sea, may have been at Gowrie’s disposal. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery The Seminole being as near the water as the eyrie, there was nothing to be gained by going there. East Angels Hark! the eagle's earliest cry, yet in his eyrie. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) And Kenyon Adams, lying flushed and tousled and tired upon a couch near by, heard the waters in his dreams and they made such music that his thin, little face moved in an eyrie smile. In the Heart of a Fool It would have made an eyrie for a king eagle. Finn The Wolfhound Master of this inaccessible eyrie, Logan was most serviceable to the plotters of these troubled times. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Downwards indeed, from our rock eyrie, we beheld the greener side of nature; and the bearing of the pine and the sweet smell of bays and nutmegs commended themselves gratefully to our senses. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The flow of the waterfall was again stopped, and with the same caution that had marked all their movements since they left Pampeluna, the guerillas descended from their eyrie. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 On the narrow wooded strand at the base of this rocky eyrie, Champlain made a landing. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Then she stood there and called from her eyrie to the sea-gulls that haunted the river, “In the presence of witnesses this man has taken me for his affianced fiancée.” The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards This was her eyrie; and here, when another woman would have been shut into a darkened chamber courting sleep, came Kate Kildare on occasion to rest her soul. Kildares of Storm The old bell-ringer, seated before a deal table, ekes out a scanty living by making cigars away up here in his circumscribed eyrie. Due South or Cuba Past and Present It was like being above the world, sitting in that eyrie nook of his. At the Crossroads This Algonquin eyrie seemed only accessible by a long detour through the upland, in which the rocky heights gradually descended to the little river of St. Croix. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France From Banff in the afternoon of Thursday, September 18th, the train carried the Prince through scenery that seemed to accumulate beauty as he travelled to another eyrie of loveliness, Lake Louise. Westward with the Prince of Wales A glorious eagle of the dawn has passed Athwart thine eyrie, and with ruffled feathers, Raging and terror-stricken, thou beholdest One of thine eaglets sprouting golden plumage! L'Aiglon Crib-work of huge trees, resembling in the distance the woven pattern of a willow basket, projected out over the ledges like a bird's nest hung from some mountain eyrie. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia The eyrie generally consists of a mass of dry branches which cross and mutually support one another, constituting a whole which is fairly resistant. The Industries of Animals “Then—you think that he is really here—in this out of the way eyrie?” half whispered the Grand Duchess. The Princess Virginia One fancies that it must have been in the mystic loveliness of this eyrie that the poet lost himself in a day-dream while Jupiter was dividing all the goods of the world. Italy, the Magic Land So he climbed the narrow stair and emerged upon that lofty eyrie. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue It proved to be a veritable eyrie, large, bare, passably clean, and very well lighted. Olive in Italy The gray peaks and gable of the Hawtry cottage massed themselves back of him and in the silvering moonlight he looked like a white eagle perched on an eyrie. Blue-grass and Broadway An eagle flying down from his eyrie on a lofty rock, seized upon a lamb, and carried him aloft in his talons. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales Perchance some bald old eagle On gray Beth-peor's height, Out of his rocky eyrie Looked on the wondrous sight. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul I looked down from our eyrie, scarcely more than half a mile away, with some misgivings. Hurricane Island It comes nearer and nearer; it gets bigger and bigger; and presently a huge eagle floats over the castle, making homeward to his eyrie in the cliffs of Ben Coila. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Family groups could be seen taking their morning coffee on the verandas; and the voices of many children rang out clear and bird-like, floating up to the eyrie where we were perched. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Into these wild and lonely regions Walter had to climb in order to reach the lofty crag whereon the vulture—the far-famed Lämmergeier of the Alps—had reared her eyrie. Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly God of the eagle's nest, Oh, let me make my eyrie near thy breast! Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul I have clambered up among the wild ravines of the Engelhorn for several days, and yesterday I descried a spot where I am pretty certain there is an eyrie. Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Go to—what hinders that I blow not his nest into the sky? what care I for the vultures of his eyrie! The Buccaneer A Tale The bullet was heard striking the sticks, and caused the dust to puff out, but it produced no further effect—not a move was made by the occupant of that elevated eyrie. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Thus with extreme difficulty he pursued his perilous way toward the end of the ridge on which he knew the eyrie was built. Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly "The entrance to my mountain eyrie is narrow and unprepossessing, but I promise you that you shall find comfort within." Bandit Love She thought as little as thinks a dove, fluttering in the talons of a hawk which is carrying it away to its eyrie. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt At noon they had reached the cabin—a lonely eyrie looking down into the gorge of the river. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley Not for a moment, then, did our hunters think of climbing up to their eyrie. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt The eyrie clung to the shattered cliff That the glacier's torrent thundered under; And the unfledged eaglet's lifted eye Looked out on the world of peak and sky In silent wonder. Pan and Æolus: Poems "De-bonne-aire" meant originally "out of a good eagle's nest," the "aire" signifying the eagle's nest or eyrie especially, because it is flat, the Latin "area" being the root of all. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving Every day brought an accession of warriors to those already assembled, and every day the scouts witnessed from their eyrie, the horse-racing, leaping, running and throwing the deadly tomahawk by the warriors. Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. On a tower higher than that on which I dwell, is the eyrie of my father. Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends Every rook within a mile flew from its eyrie and cawed strenuously. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley A gang of bushrangers kept this eyrie for many years undiscovered. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Nor did we see another mountain blue in this alpine eyrie. Birds of the Rockies Down from his eyrie they tempted my Bird, And clipped his wings that he could not fly. Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. We can’t allow the black eagle to find an eyrie in this part of the world, but just now our Western bird’s talons are blunt. Brandon of the Engineers There was little that concerned the social movements of Tilling that could not be proved, or at least reasonably conjectured, from Miss Mapp’s eyrie. Miss Mapp The rebels, both civil and military, were now out of sight; but he doubted not from his eyrie on the ridge-pole of the house, if he could reach it, they could all be seen. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer The air is growing thick with gloom round your mountain eyrie. Emily Brontë He shuddered when he remembered how men vanished into the gloom of these strongholds, which are built into the rock of the steep hills, and are inaccessible as an eagle's eyrie. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg A call blown on a hollow reed brought the watcher down from his eyrie. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea In the squatty, whitewashed ruin which once had been the eyrie of some petty predatory despot, and which now served as an observatory for two idle divisions below in the valley, stood three telescopes. Barbarians There on tempestuous nights the old eagle looked out from his eyrie on the doings of the sea, over the back of the cottage of the old weavers to the Carrick. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Sounds shaped themselves into something like articulation, and the following couplet was distinctly heard:— "While the eagle is in his nest, the eaglet shall not prevail; Nor shall the eagle be smitten in his eyrie." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 The eagle round its eyrie screams; The hill-fox seeks the glade; And foaming downwards rush the streams, As mad to be delay'd. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 An incident of his Munster estate, which doubtless he valued highly, was his title to half the produce of an eyrie of hawks in the wood of Mogelly. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography From their eyrie on the mountain the two young men had seen the approach of Naula, for his boat shone in the dark with a moon-like radiance. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate She has had no piano at the eyrie. Floyd Grandon's Honor With a yell of unutterable scorn she cried— "He may track the wild bee to its nest, and the eagle to his eyrie, but he discerns not one footprint of Oneida's path!" Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 One Saturday afternoon Claude, thirsting for outdoor air, left his eyrie for a short turn in Canal Street. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana He had reached the eagles' eyrie just as the mist began to envelop him and cut off his direct retreat. Kiddie the Scout The next morning, the little girl was up in her eyrie in the corner of the porch, and began her story. A Little Girl of Long Ago So Mr. Grandon drives his little daughter over to the eyrie just in time to catch Lindmeyer, who is still positive and deeply interested. Floyd Grandon's Honor Here on a height so steep you wonder how they are content to climb it, juts out a little stone eyrie, just as it stood a hundred years ago. A Little Girl in Old Quebec We lingered long and lovingly upon our woody promontory, our eyrie among the spruces of Cape Breton. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Down at their feet the Di flowed swiftly, with the eyrie shiver on her bosom, making haste, like a frightened woman, past the lonely Tigmores toward the livelier corn and cotton lands. Sally of Missouri There was Lord Cassowary and General Flamingo, And Don Peroqueto, escap’d from Domingo; From his high rock built eyrie the Eagle came forth, And the Duchess of Ptarmigan flew from the North. The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball He finds everything quite delightful at the eyrie. Floyd Grandon's Honor Then, in majestic circles, it slowly ascended to its eyrie. Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians This, by day, commanded the sweep of the mountain-side; and here, when Drake was "hiding out" in some neighboring eyrie, expecting pursuit, his wife was wont to signal him concerning the movements of intruders. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day He took the girl's hand, and laid it in the man's hand, and held them so; and the tones of the man's voice repeating after him rose to Nicanor's eyrie, although the words were lost. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Original illustration→“From his high rock-built eyrie the Eagle came forth, &c.” The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball Here is my eyrie, my den, my study, or whatever name fits it best. Floyd Grandon's Honor The dreamer in his mountain eyrie felt his heart warm with a sort of fatherly pity over these bumpkin raptures. Despair's Last Journey From this high eyrie we obtained a superb bird's-eye view. In the Forbidden Land High in his eyrie Nicanor laughed, with a flash of his old lawless triumph. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The object was to reach Mokhtârah, perched high in the heart of the Shoof or central ridge of Lebanon, like an eyrie, as it was then, for the princely house of Jonblât. Byeways in Palestine They who had stoutly held that Old Jack had mounted to this eyrie merely the better again to swoop down upon Frémont, Shields, or Banks crowed triumphantly. The Long Roll Recalling the time as he sat in his mountain eyrie, he found in it the first indication of his own irresponsibility, a knack of blinding himself to consequences. Despair's Last Journey From my eyrie on its blizzard-beaten crest I could see the Human Chain drag upward link by link, and every link a man. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance From the eyrie on the face of the rock Grief could see nothing for another hour, when the Rattler appeared, making for the passage. A Son Of The Sun David in his rocky eyrie was joyful, because he began with God. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms My estimate was that if I got there by break of day and waited I should, being in a high eyrie with a wide view, see him come from the opposite direction. The Black Colonel But the Paul Armstrong of ten years later, perched in his fog-bound eyrie, staring along the unseen gorge? Despair's Last Journey A moment later they heard him hoot from his eyrie in one of the tall tree-tops, and Toni shivered a little. The Making of a Soul Often, while the attention of a small alligator is engaged by one of the vultures, another pounces down, grasps it by the neck, and bears it off to his eyrie. The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela After he had been repeatedly hailed, he looked out of his eyrie, and getting into the main rigging came down. The Three Lieutenants About half-an-hour later, and long after the firing had ceased to be dangerous, the mate came down from his eyrie, to seat himself and begin wiping his dripping face. Fitz the Filibuster But the condor is not in the least afraid of these noises; and he heeds them not, but sleeps securely, even while the red lightning is playing around his eyrie. The Boy Hunters Too long with rash and single arm, The peasant strove to guard his eyrie, Till Irish blood bedewed each farm, And Ireland wept for Tipperary. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry I have a young eagle in my eyrie, Thou hast a young dove in thy nest, Let us mate them. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 As in so many places on this old battlefield, the first thought is: "Why, they were in an eyrie here; our fellows had no chance at all." The Old Front Line From the eyrie I have chosen I expect to be able to write the story of the coming deluge. The Master-Knot of Human Fate She, whose highest aim is intellectual power, will make her home like the eyrie of the eagle, lofty, but bleak. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author A young eaglet seeking the upper air, he made his eyrie on the summit of Montmartre, and for quite a while we lost sight of him. Ten Tales Peering down through the mahogany railings that fenced her eyrie from the world, the youthful Miss Maitland had watched, starry-eyed, a function which in essentials had not altered in very many years. White Ashes From the eyrie of the salient one can look over it and away to the north to big rolling chalk land, most of it wooded. The Old Front Line Afterwards, perhaps, Mary would give us tea at her eyrie. Mary Gray Maurice remembered his wild longing to carry Maddalena off upon the sea, or to some eyrie in the mountains, to be alone with her in some savage place. The Call of the Blood No one had ever dreamt of scaling it, and the Golden Eagles knew that well in their instinct, as, before they built their eyrie, they had brushed it with their wings. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 He was jubilant, and he proceeded to relate all that had passed while he sat listening in the Credo eyrie. Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field The Leipzig, itself, like the Schwaben, is a hawk's nest or eyrie. The Old Front Line I'm coming to see you one day in your eyrie at the Saint Regis. The Way of Ambition In those very first days together, isolated in their eyrie of the mountains, Hermione had let herself go—as she herself would have said. The Call of the Blood Hannah Lamond had been all this while sitting on a stone, with a face perfectly white, and eyes like those of a mad person, fixed on the eyrie. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 In their eyrie above the anxious city they led an existence all their own. The Long Night As our exploring party came up a pair of hawks left their eyrie, and circled round us, screaming their indignation. The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Two splendid eagles from an eyrie on the crags above hovered and wheeled, observing us, their shadows like two moving spots of ink upon the mountain-side. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 By rocky paths he would lead her, beyond the olives and the vines, beyond the last cottage of the contadini, up to some eyrie from which they could look down upon the sunlit world. The Call of the Blood From the size of the animal, it must be the female; and her eyrie is in that high rock. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 A fieldmouse's nest was nearly as good to him as an eagle's eyrie, an ox-eyed daisy as a white rose, a red hemp-nettle as a foxglove. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes The sun touched her golden crown, and dusky cloud-shadows grouped far beneath her eyrie, like mourners kneeling below the height to pray. The Golden Silence It was like an eyrie of creatures of the air rather than the last defences of a party of human beings. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Flying up the track, looking for all the world like some eyrie witch, she reached the curve, swinging her red light like mad. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers The eyrie was well known, and both old birds were visible on the rock-ledge. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 And from this eyrie they issued forth to prey upon the plain, or to take their lust of love or blood within the city streets. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series An Eagle, flying down from his eyrie on a lofty rock, seized upon a lamb, and carried him aloft in his talons. Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources It seemed to Leigh, looking from his eyrie, that Nature had never before painted a panorama of such wondrous beauty. The Mayor of Warwick On the other hand, below the eyrie dwelling in which she was temporarily sheltered, lay the whirlpool of sound and motion into which, sooner or later, she must plunge. The Place Beyond the Winds The imps in the eyrie have been fed, and their hungry cry will not be heard till the dawn. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The bird is common to the northern parts of both hemispheres, and places its eyrie on high, precipitous rocks. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. In each case the eyrie was a flat platform of sticks about twice the size of a kite's nest. A Bird Calendar for Northern India From his mountain eyrie Peregrine could now see bands of men assembling in the village below. Tales of the Ridings Lord Henry has always derived his political opinions rather from his heart than his head, and has lately developed a habit of firing explosive Questions at Ministers from his eyrie behind their backs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 The young lieutenant in his rude eyrie, perched on a hill surrounded by the enemy, held off ten thousand savages under the Carib chief for more than a month. Days of the Discoverers A light within showed that the girl was in her eyrie. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs The ground beneath the eyrie was littered with fowls' feathers and pellets of skin, fur and bone. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Kerb!—not until that wretched eyrie in the clouds! Visionaries There, O believers, is the eyrie to which ye must climb. The Days of Mohammed A fourth division of dwellings is the Bagni Caldi, the highest point of all, the occupants whereof have to descend as if from an eyrie, to gain any of the other localities. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 In her solitary eyrie up there the girl learned a great deal. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs The eyrie of this fine bird is described in the calendar for January. A Bird Calendar for Northern India The Moa’s eyrie is in the King’s country. The Disentanglers Yes, fly up to your eyrie among the rocks, if you can. The Days of Mohammed The most wonderful place in the world, a perfect eagle's eyrie. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. When he had driven away, the girl descended from her eyrie and cross-examined the little jockey sharply. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs High in the heavens, three eagles proudly poise, Keeping their mountain eyrie still in view, Although their flight has borne them far away. Oonomoo the Huron Go, rob the linnet's unprotected nest, And rend her offspring, from her little breast; But leave the Eagle in his eyrie high, Or thy torn flesh shall hush his eaglet's cry. Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems Little more than an eyrie for eagles, Fosdinovo is an almost perfect fortress of the Middle Age. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition As he walked away from Captain Graham's eyrie he met Sir Chichester Splay in Pall Mall. The Summons The Manchesters on Cæsar's Camp were, in a way, isolated: they were connected by telephone with headquarters, but it took half an hour to ride up to their eyrie. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War Their eagles' nests cherished well the female eagle who kept watch in the eyrie. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe The lady bookkeeper, glancing down from her glass eyrie on the inside balcony, took one look and buried her giggles in the day book. The Turtles of Tasman That royal bird was perched upon his eyrie far up on the cliff. The Curious Book of Birds For hours Ootah stood at the mouth of his mountain eyrie in dumb agony. The Eternal Maiden From his eyrie he could see half the West End of London. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Thus Pietersburg was a fairly secure eyrie in which plans could be devised and from which a swoop could be made either east or west of Pretoria. A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans So that was the trail that led up to his eyrie! The Lookout Man Every one was there, from the tiny Humming Bird to the great Eagle of the Iroquois, who left his lonely eyrie to pay his respects to the Good Hunter's memory. The Curious Book of Birds He feasted upon the raw meat, and carried away with him up to his eyrie enough to last for many days. The Eternal Maiden For two years it withstood the seas without incident, and the engineer and men came to regard the eyrie as safe as a house on shore. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls Take thee to a place of safety! even as the eagle bears the young lamb to his eyrie. Inez A Tale of the Alamo From his glass-walled eyrie, Jack Corey gazed down upon the wooded slopes and dreamed of what they hid of beauty and menace and calm and of loneliness. The Lookout Man In a gloomy dell, not far from the eyrie, Sir Thomas stood still, in the attitude of listening. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Right on the top lived an old native, who, hearing the barking of his dogs, rushed out armed with an assegai, ready to defend his eyrie against all comers. With Steyn and De Wet She had returned to her eyrie after quelling the racket in the hall, and now she leaned a little forward so that I could see her face. The Jervaise Comedy The snows and granite cliffs of Monte Rotondo overhang it to the north-west, while two fair valleys lead downward from its eyrie to the eastern coast. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Meanwhile Jaffery lingered on in London, in the cheerless little eyrie in Victoria Street, with no apparent intention of ever leaving it. Jaffery The ox would be dizzy in the eyrie, and the eagle ill at home in the barnyard. Around The Tea-Table Presently the cautious custodian joined him in his eyrie, and Roland knew instinctively why he had come. The Sword Maker An eagle flying straight from our eyrie might traverse Lombardy and light among the snow-fields of the Valtelline between sunrise and sundown. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series As he read, studied, and observed, while his hands were busy with his work, there was a constant fluttering going on in the eyrie of his thoughts. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Happening to be in Westminster in the forenoon—I had come up to town on business—I mounted to his cheerless eyrie in Victoria Street, and rang the bell. Jaffery The railway, too, cutting sheer through the slope over which the farmstead stood, had transformed shelving turf to rocky cliff and farmstead to eyrie. Hocken and Hunken I was in the more haste to leave the eyrie that the stench which emanated from the remains of numerous victims strewn in and about it was something terrific. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 Just then they noticed old Hatto, who called upon God to make the storm seven times more violent, so that the nests of the little birds might be swept away and the eagle's eyrie destroyed. Invisible Links As he sat in his lonely eyrie he knew now that he loved the girl, that it would be unbearable for him to see her another's wife. The Elephant God His soul had begun to yearn for the wide spaces, and it was in answer to the yearning that he had come up to this eagle's eyrie a second time. Charles Rex But Madam Mason's feet never climbed these steep ladder-like stairs up to this eyrie, which all her life had been dear to Gertrude. The Sign of the Red Cross It is a very rare occurrence to find two young eagles in one eyrie. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 He was aiding her to descend from her eyrie, her little white hand balanced on his arm. The Common Law "They are clearing the wires for the chief of staff to speak to you, sir," announced the telephone aide in Feller's eyrie artillery lookout. The Last Shot For was not that rock inaccessible as the eyrie of young eagles? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I All one bright wintry day we marched down from our eyrie; all one bright wintry night we climbed the great wooded ridge opposite. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Raising myself on my knees, I peered into the oval-shaped eyrie, and saw perched up at the farther side two splendid young golden eagles. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 She laughed shyly, extended her slim white hand for him to support her while she mounted to her eyrie. The Common Law And that night, for the first time since Tisdale's return, Foster climbed to the eyrie in the Alaska building. The Rim of the Desert Leaping from its dizzy eyrie in the clouds, itself most cloud-like, it is lost in a whirlwind of foam. In the Footprints of the Padres Take the eagle, when the mother eagle by instinct knows the wings of her babies have become strong enough to support their bodies, she pushes them out of the eyrie. Supreme Personality Once the jay sent a message Unto the eagle's nest:— Now yield thou up thine eyrie 105 Unto the carrion-kite, Or come forth valiantly, and face The jays in deadly fight.— Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School From her lofty eyrie she looked down at them as in a dream while they shifted other enormous framed canvases and settled the oval one into place. The Common Law Next to his summer camp in the open he liked this eyrie, and particularly he liked it at this hour of the night tide. The Rim of the Desert As he looked about my eyrie with aesthetic glance, almost his first words were: "What a background for a novel!" In the Footprints of the Padres She dwelt upon the beauties of her eyrie in the Basque mountains which I must one day see. The Collectors Concealed in his own particular eyrie, with his eyes for ever laid along his telescopic sight, he keeps ceaseless vigil over the ragged outline of the enemy's trenches. The First Hundred Thousand It resembled a perch on the side of the world, a huge eyrie with cliffs above and cliffs below, with apparently only that little passage, the old creek bed, by which one might get there. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion The eaglet is not born in the eyrie for nothing. The Man Who Laughs This encouraged her to descend from her eyrie, and to endeavour to take up her position in her family, which was beginning to appear the less reassuring the more she learned about its history. Kimono Tired out, at last she slept, and dreamed that an eagle had caught her and was bearing her swiftly, swiftly, through wide spaces to his eyrie in the mountains. The Way of an Eagle It was the eyrie in which the deceased artist had painted his pictures, with two large windows which looked over the cliff. The Moon Rock There are many striking snapshots of the king of birds in his royal home; and some stories of court life in an eyrie that are fresh and enthralling. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 He was not looking at her, but gazing forth to the distant hills like an eagle from its eyrie. The Top of the World In that age of high hearts, stormy passions, and determined purpose, he looks helpless and not at home, like a butterfly in an eagle's eyrie. Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham One week from that night, twenty-seven other men assembled in the strange eyrie of Niss'rosh, nearly a thousand feet above the city's turmoil. The Flying Legion So this night I looked down contentedly enough from my perched eyrie on the top of the Red Tower. Red Axe The orchestra was conducted by Siegfried Wagner, and Madame Wagner sat in full view from even our eyrie. Abroad with the Jimmies She had hated the grim, bare house at first, so isolated in the midst of the forests of Thanet, so like the eyrie of a bird of prey. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk We lunched sitting on the trunk of a dead birch which had been carried by the snow down from its eyrie, and then left, a melancholy skeleton, bleaching on the slowly melting avalanche. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil Along the eastern side of this eyrie a broad divan invited one to rest. The Flying Legion The fortresses, Rossberg and Sarnen, are the country's dread; For from behind their adamantine walls The foe, like eagle from his eyrie swoops, And, safe himself, spreads havoc o'er the land. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The glow of the fire painted the trunks of the trees which rose in dim majesty to where their branches held eyrie among the stars. Madcap When the wild snow-storms rage round the eyrie, and the mountain cold is felt, that is death to an unprotected sleeper, how warm the little eaglets are kept! Morning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little Ones It was a branch of the Serbian stock which had climbed into this almost inaccessible eyrie, and thence, for many hundred years, had mocked at the predatory empire of the Turks. The Crimes of England I hope you will not spoil your favourite eyrie just because I may some day fall over into it again. The Obstacle Race The eyrie upon this needle-like point is well known; according to the popular belief, it has always been there. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Sylvia had never been in such a huge hall as the one where they presently sat, high, giddily high in the eyrie of a top gallery. The Bent Twig Thus the preacher might safely remain perched up in his far distant unimpassioned eyrie. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers To see young eagles in their eyrie, signifies your association with people of high standing, and that you will profit from wise counsel from them. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition I long for the rushing winds, the piled-up peaks, the great pines, the wild night noises, the poetry and the prose of the free, jolly life of my unrivalled eyrie. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Again, he might sit perched in his eyrie till they settled their quarrel, or he fell off. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Downwards indeed, from our rock eyrie, we behold the greener side of nature; and the bearing of the pines and the sweet smell of bays and nutmegs commanded themselves gratefully to our senses. The Silverado Squatters Once located and fixed in sight, the white patch of choya, the bench, and the sheep eyrie stood out from the other features of that rugged wall. Desert Gold The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some sea-eagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyrie. The Bride of Lammermoor And from her eyrie she commanded a vast sweep of country—hills and valleys, fields, creeks, here and there lonely farmhouses, and far away to the east the glint of the river! Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace; but there is, sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapp'd fort. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare A cold air breathed down the valley and was chill to them in that lofty eyrie. The Bronze Bell I lingered for a little looking over the great city, its huddle of houses and the great fringe of the Park, all framed between the open windows of this dial-dotted eyrie. Traffics and Discoveries Their eyes were sunken and weary With a sort of listless woe, And they looked from their desolate eyrie Over the plains below. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War She put the four eggs in the bosom of her blouse and climbed up to her eyrie. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Reid, who spends at the eyrie every hour he can spare. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day But what exquisite bliss to sit thus, undisturbed in their eyrie—he and she alone in all the world. Three Weeks Kynaston saw the proceeding from his eyrie, and uttered a shrill whistle. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe For Maitland knew that from this eyrie there was no means of escape, other than by the stairs. The Brass Bowl He was always an agreeable object to them, even in his last years when he looked in his study like an old eagle in his eyrie. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Close by the eyrie thine eagle fathers built in the rocks, hung the silent Amyclae, a city of foes that cost the Spartans many generations to subdue. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance He told young Glyde that he had reached this transcendental eyrie of his by painful degrees. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution And Bakkus took up his old green valise and returned to his eyrie. The Mountebank Some people say that none e'er saw an eyrie, or nest of sakers; if you'll believe me, I saw no less than eleven, and I'm sure I reckoned right. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 They often carry off ducks and wild birds to their rocky eyrie, as food for their young ones. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Let us question them and find if they'll perchance declare The reason why they strangely dare To seize on Cranaos' citadel, This eyrie inaccessible, This shrine above the precipice, The Acropolis. Lysistrata She never halted in her flight till she was safe in her own little eyrie upstairs. The Wishing-Ring Man After a few weeks she started on the road with her aviary, and Bakkus once more left his eyrie to take charge of the flat in the Faubourg St. Denis. The Mountebank A bitter eyrie from which to watch the city one had risked all to reform. A Wanderer in Florence The one bright spot was the tiny mountain eyrie of Montenegro, which stubbornly maintained its freedom under a long succession of warrior-priests. The War and Democracy Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it; not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction Embowered in pines, it rather resembled, seen from a distance, the eyrie of some huge eagle, than the abode of human beings, though eagles' eyries are not generally roofed in, with poles and clapboards. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier Each island holds an eyrie, where none but eagles repair to build their nests, to cry and fight together, and take their solace from the world. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut Some fur-bearing animals were found in these lofty regions, and the eyrie of the eagle was in the cold, dark cliffs. The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story As much hope as a dove has who falls broken-winged into an eyrie of falcons! Salute to Adventurers But the uprooted stump went splash! into the icy waters of the creek, and as it plunged beneath the surface—all but its roots—the trio of frightened friends heard that eyrie cry again. Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods It seemed possible that then she might keep her feathers to line her own eyrie. Queen Lucia So peaceful was this eyrie, perched high up above the clamor and rattle of civilization, that every nerve in her body seemed to relax in a delicious content. The Little Warrior The event proved the wisdom of the plan, for they had scarcely descended an hundred feet from their eyrie when a low "hush!" from the girl warned them of the presence of danger. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" The fortresses, Rossberg and Sarnen, are the country's dread; For from behind their rocky walls the foe Swoops, as the eagle from his eyrie, down, And, safe himself, spreads havoc o'er the land. Wilhelm Tell Far behind the boy and girl—down the hill road—rose the eyrie scream of the disappointed panther. Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Out of a crack in the high wall—from its eyrie without doubt—a huge female eagle suddenly shot down toward the drifting aeroplane. On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Silence reigned, and an eagle hovering on the heights above doubtless had his eyrie there. Princess Maritza There are lovelier sights than New York seen at night, from a window eyrie with a mauve haze softening all, as a beautiful but experienced woman is softened by an artfully draped scarf of chiffon. Roast Beef, Medium While Philip Hardin speculated from his lofty eyrie, the San Francisco hills are now covered with the unsubstantial palaces of the first successful residents. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance As soon as day broke Eustace looked out from their eyrie on the fissured peak, and down upon the troubled belt of water below. Michael's Crag "Is this the eyrie?" he whispered, and his companion answered him in the same low tone, "This is the Fircone Tavern, sire." If I Were King "There used to be a castle there, perched on the hill-side like an eagle's eyrie." Princess Maritza Close to the big iron gate below Alwa's eyrie there were some of Jaimihr's cavalry nosing about among the trampled gardens for the dead and wounded they had left there earlier in the afternoon. Rung Ho! As it broke upon their view, perched like an eagle's eyrie on the crest of a rising peak, they drew rein, and, after a short consultation, Mr. Sloan wended his way up alone. Dark Hollow The monks who inhabited this mountain eyrie, once a fortress, now a religious refuge, were assembled in their little chapel—a sort of grotto roughly hewn out of the natural rock. Ardath For many generations two ospreys have had their eyrie in one of these giant trees, fit nursery for imperial birds! Confessions of a Beachcomber Disapproval was marked, punishment was condign; the lookout leisurely descended from his eyrie and floored the offender with a blow from his fist. The Winds of Chance The three Indians were staring at me as though that murderer aloft on his eyrie did not exist. The Hidden Children In the distance rose the blue peak said to be his eyrie, and the place was pointed out with fearful meaning. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 I always knew he would come to no good end," Miss Gossaway called out to a passer-by from her eyrie; "and there's more like him if their fathers would look after 'em. Tides of Barnegat "A noble eyrie!" said Eustace, looking up and measuring it with his eye. The Lances of Lynwood He felt strong, proud, and a conqueror; his glance was like the eagle's, when about to seize a lamb and bear it to his eyrie. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends The twisted strands of a wild grapevine, severed by his knife, hung dangling below his eyrie, betraying his mode of ascent. The Hidden Children The cruel hawk had seized the swallow which I loved, and borne it away to devour it in its eyrie, and it was the crow that saved it. Swallow: a tale of the great trek I went slowly back to the brougham, and gave the chauffeur the address of my eyrie. Simon the Jester Profound silence again succeeded; I sat on my eyrie like a statue, every nerve tense with excitement. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures At this moment Turner, approaching the huge stack in the middle of the eyrie, set fire to the grass beneath. The Master of the World The most powerful flyers have always an eyrie or nest somewhere. Robur the Conqueror An enormous bird also hovered in the skies waiting to pounce upon vessels and bear them away to some unknown eyrie. This Country of Ours This eyrie was the homeless eagle's nest When storm laid waste his eyrie: hence he came Again, when storm smote sore his mother's breast. A Century of Roundels Was it a Valkyrie assuming that lovely likeness to perch upon this eyrie, waiting to bear their heroic souls to Valhalla, or—was it Miss Betty Carewe? The Two Vanrevels The "Albatross" itself had apparently been destroyed, whether by accident or design, within the eyrie. The Master of the World From the watcher's eyrie the line of demarcation was sharply drawn; they could see the point at which the white crests of the wind-whipped wavelets ceased and the water became smoother. The Sea-Hawk Well is it that a city dove should now and then find her way to the eyrie. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest While she watched, leaning down from her eyrie, the boat and the song stopped, and the singer let go his oars and turned to the men behind him. A Spirit in Prison The whole world has enjoyed rest, cheer, and tranquillity since the moment the eagle was chased from his eyrie until this day. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Ramona was as helpless in her freedom on this mountain eyrie as if she had been chained hand and foot. Ramona Of all this Sakr-el-Bahr gathered an impression as, followed by Biskaine and the negroes, he swiftly made his way down from that eyrie that had served him so well. The Sea-Hawk Ere he had gone far, he turned round upon Sir Kasimir with a merry smile "A very white and tender dove indeed, and one who might easily nestle in another eyrie, methinks." The Dove in the Eagle's Nest From her eyrie on the rock she was directing these strange sea doings. A Spirit in Prison The fortresses, Rossberg and Sarnen, are the country's dread; For from behind their adamantine walls The foe, like eagle from his eyrie, swoops, And, safe himself, spreads havoc o'er the land. Wilhelm Tell He thought of the time when he had first come there, full of life and enthusiasm, making an ideal world of his pure and wholesome eyrie on the ledge. A Phyllis of the Sierras Then she ascended to her eyrie in the little gallery, and gazed smilingly across the sunlit Bar. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's Some day shall ye show me this eyrie of yours, and we will see whether we can amaze our cousins the eagles. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest His eyrie is amongst the Eagles, and I pray no harm may befall the dear little chieftain. Roundabout Papers By the light thus given the room stood revealed, an eyrie, encased on all sides except the one of approach by shoji only. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Still higher, apparently on the very brow of the beetling crag that frowned above, stood the old Gothic hall, crumbling and lofty, a fit eyrie for the eagles of Morville. The Heir of Redclyffe I was so afraid—How sweet of you to come out all this way from your eyrie at the Wick! The Prophet of Berkeley Square On the day before camp was broken, the Mistress had spied, from the eyrie heights of the knoll, a grim line of haze far to southward; and a lesser smoke-smear to the west. Further Adventures of Lad Out from his oak-tree eyrie a Hawk came wheeling and sailing, silent, for he had marked the Flyer, and meant him for his prey. Animal Heroes Their eyrie slipped perspectively astern, sank lower and lower, and suddenly was lost against the background of the coast. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan And I—! the king—like an eagle I have found my eyrie. King Solomon's Mines He examined every inch of the eyrie, sniffing like a pointer dog. The Path of the King It was the cry of a wounded eagle seeking its eyrie. Beatrix Screeching and sailing, they swung to their eyrie, and the prey in their claws was the body, the last of the bright little Arnaux. Animal Heroes Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace; but there is, sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapp'd for't. Hamlet From my lofty eyrie some hundreds of feet in the air, I could see everything that happened beneath. Finished On the 14th some of that venturesome fraternity, the newspaper correspondents, reached their eyrie on the highest habitable point on Vesuvius and heard the story of their experiences. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire The eagle's nest, or eyrie, is high up on the ledge of some precipice, where hardly any enemy can come. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader They climbed out of the smelting town, where eyrie houses perched insecurely on a precipitous landscape. The Valley of the Moon The old man raised her in his arms with the vigor of youth and bore her to the gate of the Swedish castle like an eagle bearing a white lamb to his mountain eyrie. Seraphita From that lofty eyrie I had a comprehensive view of the vessel. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales It was an eagle's eyrie by the side of a pen of fowls. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh The eagle is much attached to the spot where he makes his home; he dwells in the same eyrie year after year, and shows little desire to seek his fortunes elsewhere. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie. Jane Eyre From his eyrie he waved his hand to Captain Lynch, and that doughty patriarch waved back. South Sea Tales Farther along the curve, in plain view from my eyrie, carved out of the living rock, were four colossal figures. The Jacket (Star-Rover) Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace; but there is, sir, an eyrie of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapp'd fort. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
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