sparrowhawk

/ ˈspærəʊˌhɔːk /

noun

any of several small hawks, esp Accipiter nisus, of Eurasia and N Africa that prey on smaller birds

About three years since a young sparrowhawk was purchased and brought up by my brother.

His efforts in the direction of advantageous matrimony had earned for him at Court the nickname of "The Sparrowhawk."

The foreman was a brownskinned, sparrowhawk-looking old man, with a smoldering brown eye.

The term Spireog is still used in the locality referred to, and signifies the Sparrowhawk.

But the other was indeed a sparrowhawk to claw him well; and both dropt down into the middle of the boiling pond.

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