eagle-hawk

noun

1. Also called: wedge-tailed eagle. a large aggressive Australian eagle, Aquila audax

Example Sentences

From Australia upwards, a god, perhaps originally, conceived of as human and moral in character, is also recognised in a totem, as Pund-jel in the eagle-hawk.

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In either case, we have here an example of the constant mythical dualism which gives the comparatively good being his perpetual antagonist—the Loki to his Odin, the crow to his eagle-hawk.

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If Dr. Bleek's identification is correct, the Cagn of Qing is at once human and a sort of grasshopper, just as Pund-jel was half human, half eagle-hawk.

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But how does Bredbo come to be there? and old Caleb Coke handy too—like an eagle-hawk shepherding a dead lamb.

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There were three of us in partnership, in a good claim on Eagle-Hawk Gully, Bendigo.

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