[Footnote 4: A gerfalcon is a large falcon of Northern Europe.] "Oft to his frozen lair ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
Uwaine smote down thirty knights, therefore was given him the prize, and that was a gerfalcon, and a white steed trapped with cloth of gold. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And if so be that he be a wedded man, that his wife shall have the degree, and a coronal of gold beset with stones of virtue to the value of a thousand pound, and a white gerfalcon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I am told he governs like a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord the duke, of course, also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I have not made a mistake in choosing him for that same government; for I would have Senora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to find in this world and may God make me as good as Sancho's way of governing. ❋ Unknown (2002)
He had taken with him for his amusement a favorite gerfalcon of the queen. ❋ Unknown (2002)
And these same youthful lords had but that hour returned from the chase so that they stood yet in the courtyard, each bearing upon his wrist his gerfalcon, hooded and jessed. ❋ Norton, Andre (1951)
So would it be if the falcon were to flee from the duck, and the gerfalcon from the heron, and the great pike from the minnow, and if the stag were to chase the lion; so do things go topsy-turvy. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (N/A)
He always had a hand as true as steel, and an eye like a gerfalcon. ❋ Various (N/A)
Where the wild gerfalcon flies, where the last sails lift. ❋ Marjorie Lowry Christie (1913)
As a gerfalcon swoops upon a crane when he sees him rising from afar, and then draws so near to him that he is about to seize him, yet misses him, so flees the knight, with Yvain pressing him so close that he can almost throw his arm about him, and yet cannot quite come up with him, though he is so close that he can hear him groan for the pain he feels. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (1914)
In the same fashion the labourer would forsake his pick with which he strives to earn a livelihood, and the falcon would flee from the duck, and the gerfalcon from the heron, and the pike from the minnow, and the stag would chase the lion, and everything would be reversed. ❋ De Troyes Chr��tien (1914)
Wrennfeather, who will be Duke of Chepstow one day; for only last night his lordship's noble mother rubbed his hollow chest with goose grease and tied a red flannel round his neck, and this morning his gerfalcon nose is running, as the British would have run at Waterloo had not ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)
I, above by the Angel, knew nothing of all this, but spied a fellow down there, busying himself about the trenches with a javelin in his hand; he was dressed entirely in rose-colour; and so, studying the worst that I could do against him, I selected a gerfalcon which I had at hand; it is a piece of ordnance larger and longer than a swivel, and about the size of a demiculverin. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)
The King's gerfalcon having struck down a rook, and finding the sport but tame, bethought herself suddenly of that noble heron, which she still perceived fluttering over Crooksbury Heath. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
"Or shall I show you, sire, how a peregrine may win where a gerfalcon fails?" said the Bishop. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
Every fiber of her, from her crest to her deck feathers, quivered with jealousy and rage at the sight of this creature, a mere peregrine, who had dared to come between a royal gerfalcon and her quarry. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
Smaller than the royal gerfalcon, the Bishop's bird was none the less a swift and beautiful creature. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)
