eyry

• “When Roland Graeme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyas, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from the celebrated eyry in the neighborhood, called Gledscraig.”

  The Abbot

• “There was only one good thing about them, if indeed it were good, to wit, their faith to one another, and truth to their wild eyry.”

  Lorna Doone

• “They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.”

  Simon & Schuster: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

• “The bald eagle never glanced so fiercely from his eyry.”

  International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850

• “These, perched like the eagle's eyry on the very edge and summit of those crested heights that "breast the billows foam," are the _preventive stations_, inhabited by the _dumb_ and isolated members of the blockade.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829

• “Such was the programme; and the eager curiosity of the select few who were invited brought them punctually to the philosopher's eyry.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861

• “They were all brave men at Lepanto on this memorable October day; but few there were like the corsair king, in whom a heart of fire was kept in check by a brain of ice, who, during the whole combat, never gave away a chance, or failed to swoop like an eagle from his eyry when the blunders of his enemy gave him the opportunity for which he watched.”

  Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean

• “By the time I had returned with this information, the eyry held a considerable gathering.”

  The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day

• “Astonishing numbers of sea-fowl resort during the summer months to the cliff's of Freshwater and Bembridge: in the latter, the eagle has been known to build its eyry, and in the time of queen Elizabeth they were famous for a breed of hawks, which were so valued, that it was made a capital crime to steal them.”

  Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.

• “I remained with my new friend one day, enjoying the comforts of his _eyry_, and then set off for the goal of my long course, where I arrived on the 28th of October.”

  Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.

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