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  • (The 'Eaglet' is my own name for the bold and elevated crag to the west of the little lake above

    The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 John Ruskin 1859

  • In the summer of 1864, Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice in Wonderland) and her two sisters, Lorina (who inspired the Lory) and Edith (who inspired the Eaglet), posed for up to 10 hours a day while the distinguished English artist, Sir William Blake Richmond, created one of his most famous paintings, called The Sisters.

    C. M. Rubin: Alice -- In Wales? C. M. Rubin 2012

  • In the summer of 1864, Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice in Wonderland) and her two sisters, Lorina (who inspired the Lory) and Edith (who inspired the Eaglet), posed for up to 10 hours a day while the distinguished English artist, Sir William Blake Richmond, created one of his most famous paintings, called The Sisters.

    C. M. Rubin: Alice -- In Wales? C. M. Rubin 2012

  • And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.

    Alice in Wonderland 2003

  • Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.

    Alice in Wonderland 2003

  • A few years later, however, Prince Rupert and some other prominent members of the court and the city bought the third-hand forty-three-ton ketch, the "Nonsuch", and borrowed the fifty-four-ton "Eaglet" ketch from the King.

    Three Hundred Years 1971

  • Perhaps, indeed -- for the apparel does not always proclaim the man, and the _Eaglet_ was no

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various

  • On the other hand the _Eaglet_, mewed in his Austrian cage, knew nothing of life at large, and had small chance of learning anything beyond the bowdlerised history which his tutors and warders thought good to have him stuffed with.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various

  • VIBART, seemed hardly sinister, enough for the part he had to play in keeping the _Eaglet_ under the talons of the "two-headed fowl."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various

  • "And I'll be the first Golden Eaglet!" she resolved, as she returned after the presentation.

    The Girl Scouts' Good Turn Edith Lavell

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