| 单词 | eyry |
| 例句 | Then again, you’re trading algorithmically repetitive biomes and a handful of enemy archetypes for haunted castles, treacherous eyries, deceitful demons, sinister cemeteries, slumbering dragons, crumbling way stations, giant nook-rich castles and more. Review: 'Dragon Quest Builders' Is the Post-'Minecraft' Game You Have to Play 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Thousands of gray sea-birds were sailing around their eyries, along its dark craggy sides far above us, while its hollow recesses reverberated their shrill cries, till to our ears they sounded like one continued scream. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z Fifty or a hundred feet above the convent, perched on a rock like an eyry, stands a small building in which Milton is supposed to have lived, during his six weeks sojourn at the convent. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z There was a contagion of military ardor in the air, and even the small boy who had climbed up into the safe eyry of a dismantled lamp-post had within him inarticulate stirrings of warlike ambition. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z They saw that he was departing, so they sank again to their eyries, and congratulated themselves on having driven him away. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Standing in the lake and along its shores are numbers of dead trees, the remains of an ancient forest, which serve as eyries for storks, herons and eagles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z Slowly passed some hours of torture before she re-appeared, took one wide circuit around, and descended with a rush like a whirlwind upon her eyry, completely disappearing from view within its ample circumference. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Brief night succeeds the twilight; day dawn soon appears, and the hawks flash from their eyries in the Giralda, and the mule bells begin to jingle in the sunlit streets. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z This manor was at the Conquest “all forest and waste ground,” and was enclosed by one Ughtred, who held of the King “for keeping the eyries of hawks which bred in the Forest of Inglewood.” Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z They yelped indignantly at him, and flew off to perch on their eyries and brood over the problem. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z We have no wings, young eagle, to fetch you from your eyry when you may have reached the age. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z This eyry contained two eaglets, clad in white down. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z 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 From their eyries in the towering rock bastions the brown eagles swooped down as though to rend us, uttering wild and menacing cries. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z I have placed my affections on a noble object, my gaze on a lofty eyry—and never will I clip the wing that once has taken so high and bold a flight. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Those clever old feudal fellows knew well where to build their nests, and like eagles chose bold, wild heights for their rocky eyries. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z Palomas, whose crags were tenanted by numerous Griffons, and the strange growls made by them on returning to their eyries was often the first sound heard on awakening. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z So also will I here pass by with a mere mention the eyries of Meteora in Thessaly, perched upon strange pinnacles of rock, like S. Simeon upon his pillar. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z He has built his house, like the eagle his eyry, on a bold high cliff overhanging the lake. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z From his eyry he saw a light flickering in the stunted growth far down Jerusalem, zigzagging nearer. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Europe, and Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic were all visible from this eyry. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Nor is a Neophron's eyry a very delectable spot when reached; for, handsome as he looks on wing, this vulture is one of the foulest of feeders. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z In the northern distance are the summits of the Guadarrama hills, and the unseen breeze which sweeps down from its snowy eyries amongst them cuts like an icicle. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z This was a strongly-fortified place, perched like an eagle's eyry on the summit of a bold cliff that looked down on the Rio de Almanzora, and commanded its formidable passes. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies "The eagle's eyry is not now in the cleft of the rock," said one. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 M. de Blowitz went up and down the north coast of France, hunting for an eyry. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 Again, when one evening the dreaded pair was reported to be ascending towards our eyry, the stampede was electric—each man seized his gun and all disappeared like rabbits among the rocks. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Up here among the eyries of eagles the threat of tyranny is hateful beyond words, and its invocation is a conjure spell of incitement. The Tempering Some few of these eyries have bridle-paths leading up to them which are barely passable; and yet such are thought by the occupants to be especially favored. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Like a sulky eagle, sick of the world, I climbed up to my eyry. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The victorious eagles of the victorious legions had flown to their eyries forever. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Three of these eyries were situate on abrupt, detached stacks of rock, so easily accessible that we almost "walked" into them. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z I'd climb to the eyries of eagle men Till the stars became a scroll; And pour right on, like the even sea, In the strength of a governed soul. Fugitive Poetry Then began the deadly conflict, Hand to hand among the mountains From his eyry screamed the eagle, The Keneu, the great war-eagle, Sat upon the crags around them, Wheeling flapped his wings above them. The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow With him we first followed the Falcon in her flight—he showed us on the Echo-cliff the Eagle's eyry. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) From its eyries it swooped spectral and sinister. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal We only noticed one small colony in the Sierra de Gredos; and of its six or eight pairs, our beaters, who passed close below their eyries, declared that two were of the black species. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Gigantic eagles, roused from their eyries, swept with heavy wing from crag to crag, the monarchs of these solitudes. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Their nests, which have received the name of eyries, are not yet masterpieces of architecture, and reveal the beginning of the industry which is pushed so far by other birds. The Industries of Animals Balanced far above its prey, and, soon as the right moment came, ready to pounce down, and fly away with the treasure in its talons to its crying eyry! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Beneath me the peaks of the Caucasus lie, My gaze from the snow-bordered cliff I am bending; From her sun-lighted eyry the Eagle ascending Floats movelessly on in a line with mine eye. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Its chief nesting stronghold is in the Castiles, where, in the Sierra de Gredos, we found an eyry with young in May. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z On the loftiest trees, or on detached rocks, eagles, kites, and falcons, build their eyries. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests High from the fields of air look down Those eyries of a vanished race, Homes of the mighty, whose renown Hath passed and left no trace. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The eagle lies for weeks famished in his eyry, and, hunger-driven over the ledge, leaves it to ascend no more. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) But the sky remained pitiless, and from my mountain eyry I could see the valley bottoms growing sere and yellow. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Hares it appears unable to carry up whole to its eyry on the heights, tearing them into halves, and birds found in its nest are usually headless. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Even the ancestral rooks seemed to participate in the universal merriment, and returned, from their eyries, a hoarse greeting, like a lusty chorus of laughter, to the frolic train. Rookwood Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry: the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 In these two fortresses the enemy had two strong, evil eyries, high above us. The Old Front Line But following the sinuous Long Range when we reach the still water beneath the Eagle's Nest, Nadanullar, is the psychological moment to awaken the echoes that eternally haunt the frowning eyry. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Two of the eyries were in low belts of protruding rock which broke the steep slope of the sierra, a third in a detached crag about 150 feet in height. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z So, with failing, feeble legs, upward still, toward the region of the granite and the snow; toward the eyry of the kite and the eagle. Stories of Childhood I remained with my new friend one day, enjoying the comforts of his eyry, and then set off for the goal of my long course, where I arrived on the 28th of October. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. Long years and rain and sunlight have made these castellated eyries one with their native stone. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series For seven weeks and more I have exhausted the powers of modern war upon that eyry of malignants; and there is still the Guernsey Castle to be dealt with. St George's Cross The two families were now located in their respective eyries; and Jack, whilst escorting the Wolstons to the foot of their tree, said to Sophia, "I thought the chimpanzee had been playing some prank." Willis the Pilot The birds went back to their eyries, and the troubled water was still. King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet The bald eagle never glanced so fiercely from his eyry. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Belike, the eagles, from their eyries look down upon us Mardians, in our hives, even as upon the beavers in their dams, marveling at our incomprehensible ways. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II "Strange for the parent bird to leave the dove in the nest of the hawk -- the eyry of the eagle." The Lord of Dynevor Alas! though ne'er for me those eagle wings Stooped from their eyry proud. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. They call us eaglets in sooth; and do eaglets rest for ever in their mountain eyry? In the Days of Chivalry Such was the programme; and the eager curiosity of the select few who were invited brought them punctually to the philosopher's eyry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II A strange flash was in his eyes as he looked up the valley towards the crag upon which he had told the child the eyry of the eagles hung. The Lord of Dynevor These, perched like the eagle's eyry on the very edge and summit of those crested heights that "breast the billows foam," are the preventive stations, inhabited by the dumb and isolated members of the blockade. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 My pale, silent sister was stronger than the storm which flapped its wings around me and threatened to take me to its eyry; but it did not; it permitted me to gain Doctor Percival's door. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 There, from their eyries, while the world heaved and throbbed below, the kings of men sent forth their eagle thoughts to wing their flight through the ages. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow In the bird's-nests of the forest, In the lodges of the beaver, In the hoofprint of the bison, In the eyry of the eagle! The Song of Hiawatha "Howel, could she climb to the crag where we can look down upon the eyry if we helped her up the worst places?" The Lord of Dynevor From her moist eyry in the surf the old gum boot descried the group upon the beach each pleasant day. A Little Book of Profitable Tales By the time I had returned with this information, the eyry held a considerable gathering. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day They might have to contemplate the devastation of their fields, and their farms burning, from their eyries, but they knew that their persons were safe. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Then began the deadly conflict, Hand to hand among the mountains; From his eyry screamed the eagle, The Keneu, the great war-eagle, Sat upon the crags around them, Wheeling flapped his wings above them. The Song of Hiawatha She went with them, and they left her alone on the ledge, where once the eagle's eyry used to be. The Lord of Dynevor My third landlady had only one room, and it was on the second floor back, but before I got the length of mounting to this eyry I went through my examination afresh. The Christian A Story E'en those who gorge themselves with innocent blood live tranquil in their home eyries. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Another and greater precipice towered over us on the right, and the black eagles which had made their eyries in its niched and caverned vaults, were wheeling around its crest. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain He felt that within him which rose up gigantic from the earth, and towered into eyries of space, from whence that morning star seemed like a dewdrop glittering low down upon the earth. The Worshipper of the Image You have not willingly left your mountain eyry for these halls where the proud foeman holds his court and sits in judgment upon those who by rights are free as air. The Lord of Dynevor 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 Two battle-cruisers blown up in the Channel; what in God's name were two battle-cruisers doing in the mine-strewn Channel when their proper place was in one of the safe eyries overlooking the North Sea? The Lost Naval Papers He was astonied beyond measure at the number of the eagles and their eyries, at the clamour and the shrilling of their cries. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut Neither of them choose inaccessible places for their eyries; neither of them rear large broods. The Life of the Fields Their tops, now inaccessible, are to be the future eyries of self-crowned railroad nobs and rude bonanza barons. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Sure-footed and adventurous, they scale the side of the most unpromising crags in search of herbage and can sometimes be seen perching, almost like birds, in what seem utterly inaccessible eyries. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life Birds of prey, winging from the sea, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese. Ulysses Make it a reality, my eagle youth, bear off the white lamb to your eyry, and let the world, with its affected morality, say what it likes. Old Fritz and the New Era He mounted to this eyry every Friday night, so as to be reminded of the good old days at Schwartz's. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn I need a strong body that I may be able to climb the rocky pathway of life to the summit, to the eagle's eyry, far above the lowliness of life. Mohammed Ali and His House I can imagine one of these eyries a delightful setting to certain moods. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan In fact, Sir, this conspirator of barbers' shops, this prisoner of the Chateau d'If, this climber of Corsican eyries, is to-day the French Minister accredited to the Court of St. James's! Old Friends, Epistolary Parody If the eagle soars aloft through the ether to his eyry, bearing a lamb in his powerful claws, has he not a right to it—the right of superiority and power by God's grace? Old Fritz and the New Era He overflowed with brilliant talk and curious stories of the villages and scattered houses that we could see from our eyries. The Blue Flower Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry: the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. The Natural History of Selborne "Sleep you well, Dunedin Town, though loud the lulling lyre is; Lady of the stars terrene, where quick the human fire is, Lady of the Maori pines, the turrets, and the eyries!" An Anthology of Australian Verse He retired to his eyry—the sawdust box in the empty stable—and there gave rein to his embittered imaginings, incidentally forming many plans for Margaret. Penrod and Sam |
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