eyry
- a variation of eyrie.
Example Sentences
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We have no wings, young eagle, to fetch you from your eyry when you may have reached the age.
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
Again, when one evening the dreaded pair was reported to be ascending towards our eyry, the stampede was electric—each man seized his gun and all disappeared like rabbits among the rocks.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
They call us eaglets in sooth; and do eaglets rest for ever in their mountain eyry?
From In the Days of Chivalry by Everett-Green, Evelyn
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 Keene, H. G. (Henry George)
Beneath me the peaks of the Caucasus lie, My gaze from the snow-bordered cliff I am bending; From her sun-lighted eyry the Eagle ascending Floats movelessly on in a line with mine eye.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
