eagle-hawk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Legends say that these bones are the remains of the victims of Mullyan, the eagle-hawk, whose camp was in the tree at the foot of which was the spring.
From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
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.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
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.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Seeing Oogahnahbayah, a small eagle-hawk, flying over, they would say, 'He eats the emu eggs.'
From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
What matters the sand or the whitening chalk, The blighted herbage, the black'ning log, The crooked beak of the eagle-hawk, Or the hot red tongue of the native dog?
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
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