The tiercel, he remembered Percey Clay telling him. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
The tiercel dropped down the sky like a thrown javelin. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
'And it killed the royal tiercel, Pharaoh's other self.'. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
They were a matched pair, he the tiercel and she the falcon. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
The tiercel was stretched out with his wings spread as though he was mantling a kill. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Slowly he leaned out towards the tiercel, then stopped with his hand poised above it. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
The peregrine falcon — the tiercel, he remembered — was awake and about to go hunting. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
A few years back, a friend of mine's tiercel Peregrine died from a yellowjacket sting to the face. From Wordnik.com. [Giant Yellowjacket Nests] Reference
The tiercel nearest the door stirred upon its perch, turning its hooded head to look at the intruder it could not see. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
He hoped that it might alarm the tiercel off the nest and so confirm its exact position, but there was still no sign of it. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Picturing his room, picturing sitting beside him, she remembered the tiercel — the male falcon — lording about on the window ledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
Ince flies a mature tiercel male peregrine successfully at snipe, dove and quail, some of the toughest quarries any trained falcon catches. From Wordnik.com. [Good Press!] Reference
He said a message took three pigeons because of the ubiquitous Peregrines there: "One for the falcon, one for the tiercel, and one for the film". From Wordnik.com. [Spy Pigeons-- the Good, the Bad, and...] Reference
The tiercel, smaller but more handsome than she, was asleep on his own perch in the other corner, with the soft leather hood of the rafter covering his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Bright as polished rubies, they twinkled in the sunlight, and with a sudden, swooping sensation in the pit of his stomach, Nefer realized that the tiercel was dead. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
He was wrapped in a towel on my lap -- the towel slipped and his tiny tiercel foot was suddenly embedded in the meaty part of my thigh... can an eagle take down a wolf?. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel Cooper and Wolves] Reference
Then suddenly one of the birds, the smaller male, the tiercel, broke the pattern of flight, and angled up against the wind, his leisurely wingbeats taking on a sudden ferocity. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Tassell is a corruption of tiercel, a name given to the male peregrine, so termed, according to the legendary lore of venery. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Delgada died from paraquat spraying, Gorda flew out to sea probably to die, and Anukiat (a tiercel or male) was never quite found. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
All to be built when, like a tiercel-gentle to his wrist, came more fame, more gold! ". From Wordnik.com. [Sir Mortimer] Reference
A falcon or tiercel, and the sparrow-hawk did not attempt to carry, but held on his way. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
And you still don’t know if I’m a tiercel or a falcon – it really doesn’t matter. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated)] Reference
I think I actually miss my little dark tiercel, but he’ll be driving me crazy come October. From Wordnik.com. [Après le Bain] Reference
The latter can be formidable quarry for the smallest trained hawks, but the tiercel Harris’ deals with them easily. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
'I can see the tiercel. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
The dead tiercel was Pharaoh. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
The tiercel glided at two hundred feet. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
'It killed my godbird, and the tiercel.'. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
India is called “Laghar” and tiercel. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I had a tiercel I used for hunting partridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
Ibi.do.do. do. tiercel. From Wordnik.com. [An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies : in four volumes] Reference
"It's a tiercel.". From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
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