When Roland Graeme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyas, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from the celebrated eyry in the neighborhood, called Gledscraig. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There was only one good thing about them, if indeed it were good, to wit, their faith to one another, and truth to their wild eyry. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy. ❋ Mary Shelley (2004)
Such was the programme; and the eager curiosity of the select few who were invited brought them punctually to the philosopher's eyry. ❋ Various (N/A)
They were all brave men at Lepanto on this memorable October day; but few there were like the corsair king, in whom a heart of fire was kept in check by a brain of ice, who, during the whole combat, never gave away a chance, or failed to swoop like an eagle from his eyry when the blunders of his enemy gave him the opportunity for which he watched. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)
By the time I had returned with this information, the eyry held a considerable gathering. ❋ Harriet Stark (N/A)
Astonishing numbers of sea-fowl resort during the summer months to the cliff's of Freshwater and Bembridge: in the latter, the eagle has been known to build its eyry, and in the time of queen Elizabeth they were famous for a breed of hawks, which were so valued, that it was made a capital crime to steal them. ❋ George Brannon (N/A)
The bald eagle never glanced so fiercely from his eyry. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ John M'lean (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Robert Lloyd Praeger (1909)
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. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
From that eyry on the mountain-top I had selected a country road which led to the flank, and had located a white farm-house which stood on this road at a point precisely opposite the end of Sheridan's intrenchments. ❋ Unknown (1904)
To this ridge the Confederates had been withdrawn from their eyry on Point Lookout, and the forces of ❋ Unknown (1904)
It lay like a sea-hawk's eyry spoiled of life and hope. ❋ Henry John Newbolt (1900)
But the sky remained pitiless, and from my mountain eyry I could see the valley bottoms growing sere and yellow. ❋ Unknown (1899)
From the lord Of The Rings Novel ( [The Hobbit] ):
The Eagle said (while speaking to [the hobbit]):
You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and [you are up] in his [eyrie] at night! ❋ Pure-Evil (2010)
I referred to Eyris with their [dead name] and male pronouns. they asked me to use They/them pronouns with them so [I apologize] for [the mistake] and corrected myself. ❋ Eyris Lucifina Claymore (2021)
