How to use eyrie in a sentence
Striving to be evocatively mysterious, eyrie is in the end merely mystifying.
Of course Lysa summoned Sansa to the eyrie immediately thereafter.
Game of Thrones’ Ep. 7 ‘Mockingbird’ Recap: Conscious Coupling (and Uncoupling) | Andrew Romano | May 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe air is growing thick with gloom round your mountain eyrie.
Emily Bront | A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) RobinsonAll one bright wintry day we marched down from our eyrie; all one bright wintry night we climbed the great wooded ridge opposite.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceIn each case the eyrie was a flat platform of sticks about twice the size of a kite's nest.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas Dewar
The ground beneath the eyrie was littered with fowls' feathers and pellets of skin, fur and bone.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarFrom the eyrie of the salient one can look over it and away to the north to big rolling chalk land, most of it wooded.
The Old Front Line | John Masefield
British Dictionary definitions for eyrie
aerie
/ (ˈɪərɪ, ˈɛərɪ, ˈaɪərɪ) /
the nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built in a high inaccessible place
the brood of a bird of prey, esp an eagle
any high isolated position or place
Origin of eyrie
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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