eagles

• The fishing eagles, as Lucien had told me, have always naked legs_, while those of the true eagles are more feathered. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
• It is a mistake to attribute noble or mean qualities to animals or birds, or to think they can do good or bad actions, when they can only do what God has created them to do, and as their instinct teaches The most powerful of the eagles is the Golden Eagle, so called because of the rich yellowish-brown bordering to its feathers. —  Chatterbox Stories of Natural History
• We had also seen many other birds during the day-- eagles, hawks, ravens, ospreys, prairie-chickens, grouse, mocking-birds, and woodpeckers; while we caught sight of several kinds of deer, elk, and mountain sheep. —  In the Rocky Mountains
• As he went back through the historic vista of patriotic achievements, he seemed to renew his youth like the eagles, and rose into a still loftier and bolder strain than in the withering retort with which he struck down Wise and Marshall. —  Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
• Kites, fishing-eagles, and hooded-crows came in hundreds and perched upon the line to see what on earth it could mean, and sometimes after a thunder-storm, when the wires were wet, were found dead by dozens, the victims of their curiosity, Monkeys climbed the posts and ran along the lines, chattering, and dropping an interfering tail from one wire to another, which tended to confound the conversations of Calcutta. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865

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