In each case the eyrie was a flat platform of sticks about twice the size of a kite's nest. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
From his eyrie that beacons the darkness of heaven. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
From his high rock built eyrie the EAGLE came forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock 'At Home:' A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball] Reference
Other times, too, from this eyrie of his, he had seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Reid, who spends at the eyrie every hour he can spare. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
But from a rock's wall'd eyrie the father wistfully gazing. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
The most powerful flyers have always an eyrie or nest somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
On a tower higher than that on which I dwell, is the eyrie of my father. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Steel's mind returned to the present, to his eyrie lookout above the castle. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
They much preferred to perch in their eyrie and watch the people of Cleveland. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Father has been been bespeaking our dear auntie, Thalassa Dru, in her Tarn eyrie. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
'"Queen bee of the honey asps,"' quoth Paul of the eyrie: and he was back in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Already, the stench of the eagle's eyrie had begun to pervade the halls of government. From Wordnik.com. [Pax Romana] Reference
"No way," Arthur confirmed, speaking in a nasal twang from his eyrie in the window bay. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
Thus the preacher might safely remain perched up in his far distant unimpassioned eyrie. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
From the eyrie I have chosen I expect to be able to write the story of the coming deluge. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
She dwelt upon the beauties of her eyrie in the Basque mountains which I must one day see. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
"Where wilt thou go, Flashman — have ye an eyrie to wait in where no enemy can find thee?". From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
They often carry off ducks and wild birds to their rocky eyrie, as food for their young ones. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference
Afterwards, to while away the time, we made an inspection of the strange eyrie we had lighted on. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Yet as often as they find my eyrie, men stone my young and rob my nest and shoot at me with arrows. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
We lingered long and lovingly upon our woody promontory, our eyrie among the spruces of Cape Breton. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
I stayed and stayed; it was so pleasant in the eyrie; but when at last I rose to go, Kitty sighed. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
He feasted upon the raw meat, and carried away with him up to his eyrie enough to last for many days. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
He had reached the eagles 'eyrie just as the mist began to envelop him and cut off his direct retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
Far behind the boy and girl -- down the hill road -- rose the eyrie scream of the disappointed panther. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Janice agreed by pressing her hand again, and little Lottie laughed -- such a shrill, eyrie little laugh!. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
With my Joslyn and fifty rounds I could give a warm reception to anyone toiling up the path to our eyrie. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
He was jubilant, and he proceeded to relate all that had passed while he sat listening in the Credo eyrie. From Wordnik.com. [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference
The “Albatross” itself had apparently been destroyed, whether by accident or design, within the eyrie. From Wordnik.com. [The Master of the World] Reference
A moment later they heard him hoot from his eyrie in one of the tall tree-tops, and Toni shivered a little. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
The lonely man in his eyrie in the Rockies, reviewing the bygone time, murmured what he could recall of these. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
And that night, for the first time since Tisdale's return, Foster climbed to the eyrie in the Alaska building. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Next to his summer camp in the open he liked this eyrie, and particularly he liked it at this hour of the night tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
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