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- noun Alternative spelling of
sea eagles ; plural form ofsea-eagle .
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Examples
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Nearly all the rivers are exceptionally unpolluted spawning grounds for this key food source which sustains the very large populations of brown bears, sea otters, Steller's sea-eagles and dozens of other marine and terrestrial animals.
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Bored with the sea watch, most of us looked at other birds in the surrounding remnant forest - resident sea-eagles, scarlet minivets, tiny falconets, dollarbirds doing their aerial dance that earned them their other name: rollers.
Archive 2007-03-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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Porpoises, snow-white terns sitting on drifting wood, sea-eagles, ospreys, sea-snakes, sails, the smudge of steamer-smoke and its ten-mile plume, sunlit isles and speckless sky, with no sound save the purring of the engine and the prattle of the water against the bows — a catalogue of the commonplace, and yet stimulative of entertainment and content.
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Why, wretch, to what sacred feast are you inviting the vultures and the sea-eagles?
The Birds 2000
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Why, wretch, to what sacred feast are you inviting the vultures and the sea-eagles?
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Why, wretch, to what sacred feast are you inviting the vultures and the sea-eagles?
The Birds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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And they wailed aloud, more carelessly than birds, sea-eagles or vultures of crooked claws, whose younglings the country folk have taken from the nest, ere yet they are fledged.
Book XVI Homer 1909
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And when I hear the call of the gulls or the sea-eagles over my head, I must leap up to meet them till I can hardly tell what is my right element, is it the high air or is it the loosened spring-tide!
Three Wonder Plays Lady Gregory 1892
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Hawks and sea-eagles are quickly attracted to the spot, but only hover on the outskirts of the revolving coil, occasionally snapping up a prize.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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And they wailed aloud, more ceaselessly than birds, sea-eagles or vultures of crooked claws, whose younglings the country folk have taken from the nest, ere yet they are fledged.
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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