He always had a hand as true as steel, and an eye like a gerfalcon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference

He had taken with him for his amusement a favorite gerfalcon of the queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

Uwaine smote down thirty knights, therefore was given him the prize, and that was a gerfalcon, and a white steed trapped with cloth of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

And these same youthful lords had but that hour returned from the chase so that they stood yet in the courtyard, each bearing upon his wrist his gerfalcon, hooded and jessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Huon of the Horn]

So would it be if the falcon were to flee from the duck, and the gerfalcon from the heron, and the great pike from the minnow, and if the stag were to chase the lion; so do things go topsy-turvy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

Where the wild gerfalcon flies, where the last sails lift.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drift of Pinions] Reference

It occurred to me that it might be the famous gerfalcon, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'] Reference

Smaller than the royal gerfalcon, the Bishop's bird was none the less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2] Reference

"Or shall I show you, sire, how a peregrine may win where a gerfalcon fails?" said the Bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

Smaller than the royal gerfalcon, the Bishop's bird was none the less a swift and beautiful creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel]

And lo! it was Lodbrok's gerfalcon; and pleased she was to see me once more, fluttering her wings and glancing at me while I smoothed and spoke to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wulfric the Weapon Thane] Reference

And at that tournament Sir Uwaine smote down thirty knights, therefore was given him the prize, and that was a gerfalcon, and a white steed trapped with cloth of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1] Reference

And if so be that he be a wedded man, that his wife shall have the degree, and a coronal of gold beset with stones of virtue to the value of a thousand pound, and a white gerfalcon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1] Reference

The King's gerfalcon having struck down a rook, and finding the sport but tame, bethought herself suddenly of that noble heron, which she still perceived fluttering over Crooksbury Heath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

And Lodbrok answered that she was an Iceland gerfalcon from the far northern ocean, and went on to tell us of her powers of flight, and at what game she was best, and how she would take her quarry, and the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wulfric the Weapon Thane] Reference

Passing fair was Felice, his daughter, like some stately marble shaft of perfect mould; haughty was she as the great gerfalcon which spurns the earth and towers up into the noon to look the burning sun in the face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People] Reference

So they thanked her and pricked on, none guessing that she herself was King Urience 'wife, of Gore, and none other than Queen Morgan le Fay, the famous enchantress, who for loss of her gerfalcon was lightly sending Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wandering Heath] Reference

The Grand Khan confers likewise upon certain of his nobles tablets on which are represented figures of the gerfalcon, in virtue of which they are authorized to take with them as their guard of honor the whole army of any great prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)] Reference

Thus a circle, whence proceeds a line ending in a triple fork, represents the raven totem in North America: another design, to our eyes meaningless, stands for the wolf totem; a third design, a set of bands on a spear shaft, does duty for the gerfalcon totem, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference

“The morning that the gerfalcon came into the tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

It was the queen’s gerfalcon, and he came in pursuit of it.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

If it had been the shoe – fling you were at I could take your place, for I can do the shoe – fling like a gerfalcon; but I'm no good at dancing. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Quixote] Reference

“A gerfalcon had pursued his prey into the hall.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

"If it had not have been for that little bird at Chilton you might have hoodwinked me as blind as ever gerfalcon was hooded.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference

If it had been the shoe-fling you were at I could take your place, for I can do the shoe-fling like a gerfalcon; but I'm no good at dancing. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 38] Reference

A rebel he, like gerfalcon insane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem] Reference

Of a gerfalcon, soaring into sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of a Wayside Inn] Reference

"Which of you has slain my gerfalcon?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wandering Heath] Reference

This white bird is a gerfalcon from the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King in Yellow] Reference

Tamed the gerfalcon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library] Reference

A gerfalcon perched upon his wrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House of Pomegranates] Reference

4. gerfalcon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Whistle off the gerfalcon! "cried the Bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

I am skilled in the uses of falcon-gentle, gerfalcon, saker, lanner, merlin, hobby, goshawk, sparrow-hawk, and musket -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference