gerfalcon
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Good morrow, Sir Sanpeur, pray do you mark My new gerfalcon, from beyond the sea?
From Under King Constantine by Trask, Katrina
The cut below exhibits the conventional effigy of a gerfalcon as sculptured over one of the gates of Iconium, Polo's Conia.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
At every hour I call him back by thoughts: A rebel he, like gerfalcon insane, He feels no more the hand that did restrain, And is gone forth not to return again.
From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Williams, L.
Particularly in the most poetical passages you are excellent; as, for instance, in the fine description of the gerfalcon and the heron in 'El Mayor Encanto.'
From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
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