eyrie
noun
eyry
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a variation of
eyrie.
Example Sentences
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The bald eagle never glanced so fiercely from his eyry.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various
For seven weeks and more I have exhausted the powers of modern war upon that eyry of malignants; and there is still the Guernsey Castle to be dealt with.
From St George's Cross by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
Slowly passed some hours of torture before she re-appeared, took one wide circuit around, and descended with a rush like a whirlwind upon her eyry, completely disappearing from view within its ample circumference.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
Its chief nesting stronghold is in the Castiles, where, in the Sierra de Gredos, we found an eyry with young in May.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
There was a contagion of military ardor in the air, and even the small boy who had climbed up into the safe eyry of a dismantled lamp-post had within him inarticulate stirrings of warlike ambition.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
