war-eagle

She found herself wondering, with a strange jealousy, if any of her maids had ever led this war-eagle into her palace.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

If you saw a piece of gorgeously dyed wampum, or a robe curiously plaited of the bark of the mulberry, or the feathers of the canieu or war-eagle, you needed not ask who did it -- you might be sure it was Menana.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

"The war-eagle will come, and then I shall have a chance to get his skin and his feathers to put on my head."

Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian Anonymous

The feathers of the canieu or war-eagle, and the painted vulture, towered above her head no more, and gone from her shoulder was the emblem of the race over which she had borne rule, the bow and the arrow.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

The Arapahos do not shave their heads, as do the Pawnees, Caws, and Osages, merely braiding the center or scalp lock, and decorating it with a gay ribbon or feather of the war-eagle.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

He ordered the best war-eagle that could be made, and began to take lessons in military maps, bird's-eye views, and explosives.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

He is a great war-spirit, and Wanmdée (the war-eagle) is his messenger.

Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

He is a great war-spirit, and _Wanmdée_ (the war-eagle) is his messenger.

The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

You must then untie the sack, and spread out before you my paints of all colors, my war-eagle feathers, my tufts of dried hair, and whatever else it contains.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. Mark Twain 1872

You must then untie the sack, and spread out before you my paints of all colors, my war-eagle feathers, my tufts of dried hair, and whatever else it contains.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872