She found herself wondering, with a strange jealousy, if any of her maids had ever led this war-eagle into her palace. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1989)
"The war-eagle will come, and then I shall have a chance to get his skin and his feathers to put on my head." ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
The feathers of the canieu or war-eagle, and the painted vulture, towered above her head no more, and gone from her shoulder was the emblem of the race over which she had borne rule, the bow and the arrow. ❋ James Athearn Jones (N/A)
If you saw a piece of gorgeously dyed wampum, or a robe curiously plaited of the bark of the mulberry, or the feathers of the canieu or war-eagle, you needed not ask who did it -- you might be sure it was Menana. ❋ James Athearn Jones (N/A)
The Arapahos do not shave their heads, as do the Pawnees, Caws, and Osages, merely braiding the center or scalp lock, and decorating it with a gay ribbon or feather of the war-eagle. ❋ Unknown (1916)
He ordered the best war-eagle that could be made, and began to take lessons in military maps, bird's-eye views, and explosives. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
He is a great war-spirit, and Wanmdée (the war-eagle) is his messenger. ❋ Hanford Lennox Gordon (1878)
He is a great war-spirit, and _Wanmdée_ (the war-eagle) is his messenger. ❋ Hanford Lennox Gordon (1878)
You must then untie the sack, and spread out before you my paints of all colors, my war-eagle feathers, my tufts of dried hair, and whatever else it contains. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Katy roused at three in the morning, and looking from her cabin window had a glimpse of an island, which her map showed her must be Elba, where that war-eagle Napoleon was chained for a while. ❋ Susan Coolidge (1870)
There she had twins, their father being the war-eagle that had carried her off, and her children have since peopled the earth. ❋ Henry Inman (1868)
There was a particular species of eagle called the war-eagle, on account of his strength and fierceness, whose feathers were prized above all others for purposes of dress and decoration. ❋ Unknown (1860)
As soon as Grasshopper got the otter into the sunshine where it was warm, he skinned him, and threw the carcass some distance off, thinking the war-eagle would come, and that he should have a chance to secure his feathers as ornaments for the head; for Grasshopper began to be proud, and was disposed to display himself. ❋ Cornelius Mathews (1853)
A long piece of bone, the thigh joint of the war-eagle, hangs suspended over his breast. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Plumes surmounted them of coloured feathers from the wing of the war-eagle, or the blue plumage of the gruya. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
He wore upon his head the war-eagle bonnet, with its full circle of plumes: the finest triumph of savage taste. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
It was broken by a cry from without -- the scream of the war-eagle! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
