Unfledged

If the season starts too early the birds are still unfledged and considered too small to hunt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“For the wild falcon,” answered she, “whom a dog brought in his mouth to a certain castle, when he was but an unfledged eyas — for the hawk whom men dare not fly, lest he should check at game, and pounce on carrion — whom folk must keep hooded till he has the proper light of his eyes, and can discover good from evil.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

While he, the aged sire, like mother-bird wailing her unfledged brood, comes hasting hither with halting steps on his bitter journey. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mother, where he landed, giddy and tottering like a chick unfledged, and at the last of his strength for hunger and thirst; but, finding there streams flowing and birds on the branches cooing and fruit-laden trees in clusters and singly growing, he ate of the fruits and drank of the rills. ❋ Unknown (2006)

James, was witness to the cruel and ignominious treatment showed to one of his brethren, to a rational, two-footed, unfledged being. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I gape like an unfledged kite in its nest, wanting to swallow a chicken, bobbed at its mouth by its marauding dam! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

He did not particularly heed her; but Mrs. Harnham was continually occupying her eyes with him, and wondered more than ever what had attracted him in her unfledged maid-servant. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And according to this new clarification, 927 Fifth could take down the nest as long as there were no eggs or unfledged baby hawks in it. ❋ DiGiacomo, Frank (2005)

It plays hell on new fledglings, on unfledged young in the nest, and on adult birds as they sit incubating eggs against the cool night air. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

At the height of the next breeding season a typhoon strikes, raking the treetops and killing an entire generation of unfledged owls. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The produce of this “harvest”, as they call it, which was presented to me, was a hundred and seventy-five unfledged birds. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Such a state of official excellence has not, however, been obtained without its drawbacks, at any rate in the eyes of the unambitious tyros and unfledged novitiates of the establishment. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She was at this time nineteen years old, and there were those who said, that in spite of her poverty, her shabby outward apparel, and a certain thin, unfledged, unrounded form of person, a want of fulness in the lines of her figure, she was the prettiest girl in that part of the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I see her prostrate on the great steps of her altar, praying for a fair night for mariners at sea, for travellers in deserts, for lambs on moors, and unfledged birds in woods. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Only to-day the prince told me that you have a special fancy for unfledged girls.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

They cry, they scream, their unfledged brood a prey ❋ Unknown (2003)