eyrie

• “He chooses for his home a cave or natural hole on the face of a high cliff; this is called the eyrie, and here he gathers together sticks, and odds and ends to make a kind of bedding for his young.”

  The Children's Book of London

• “In 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

• “Z has posted pictures from his "eyrie", as he calls it.”

  How to make someone homesick

• “The sole survivor of three chicks hatched by a record-breaking pair of ospreys has taken its first tentative flight from its eyrie in Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland.”

  The Guardian: Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick

• “Records were broken in 2009 when a pair of adult birds fledged three chicks from a clutch of three eggs hatched in the eyrie.”

  The Guardian: Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick

• “From the eyrie on the face of the rock Grief could see nothing for another hour, when the Rattler appeared, making for the passage.”

  THE DEVILS OF FUATINO

• “The noise likewise eased down, and the others could hear Donald shouting from his eyrie to look down - stream.”

  AT THE RAINBOW'S END

• “From his eyrie he waved his hand to Captain Lynch, and that doughty patriarch waved back.”

  THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI

• “Farther along the curve, in plain view from my eyrie, carved out of the living rock, were four colossal figures.”

  Chapter 12

• “The field glowed like rough gold in the approaching sunset, and near the middle of it stood a solitary great redwood, with blasted top suggesting a nesting eyrie for eagles.”

  CHAPTER XVII

Show 10 more examples...