The eagle came uppermost, and theeagle meant the open prairie for us.
All this, of course, was strictly against the peace and dignity of the powers that were, and so the red-coated men rode the high divides with their eagle eye peeled for any one who looked like a whisky-runner.
We had no means of knowing what his mission might be, but I did know that the square shoulders, the lean eagle face, could only belong to one man; and I dropped the glasses and drew a bead on his breast.
Sidenote: Some conceive that the figure of the Tree or Spread-eagle in the root of Brake or Fern stands North and South, but not truly.
And this is that stone which is to be understood, when Physitians joyn it with AEtites, or theEagle stone, and promise therein a vertue against abortion.
Meantime, the demoralized colonists were leaving their crops and making their way first to Mapimi, and later to Torreón, where most of them caught the Mexican International to Eagle Pass.
The larger eagle suddenly took flight, rising with awkwardly flapping wings and cutting eccentric loops and curves, each dip calling forth a raucous scream.
Breed's mysterious information came from seeing an eagle pitch down far to the west of him.
Thereafter Shady knew why Breed showed uneasiness when an eagle screamed near the den.
Within two seconds after the first droning sound had reached Shady's ears she saw the eagle strike his claws through a pup and start up the valley on lazily flapping wings.
He rested upon his pole and his eagle eye swept the river, flashing brilliant in the sunshine.
The eagle eye of Mr. Jones had picked his employer unerringly from amidst the multitude.
The manoeuvres of half a dozen regiments were to be inspected by the eagle eye of the commander-in-chief; temporary fortifications had been erected, the citadel was to be attacked and taken, and a mine was to be sprung.
Remains of the mediaeval Wall exist in very perfect condition, at the back of the Eagle Inn in High Street, and in other parts of the city.
A pink-painted front, the golden eagle of the great West, golden lettering, every chance strip and speck of colour is washed in the dazzling light, made clear and evident.
Only recently a fine white-tailed eagle was soaring over the woods, he may have followed the line of the sea down from the Hebrides.
The glassy lake, "the eagleon the blast," who slowly wings His flight to the gray peaks that lift their crests on high, In everlasting grandeur to the sky?
A monument to Marshal Turenne represents him dying in the arms of some allegorical genius, with an eagle at his feet.
The young men placed eagle pipes, as they were called, in their mouths.
The red bundle represents the boys and such men as wear no eagle feathers.
Among the Osage the traditions of the Tsiɔu Wactaʞe and Bald Eagle people mention several Wakanʇas among the stars.
Like the eagle which had disappeared before the pilgrim's eyes in the azure vault of heaven, the radiant light on the pure summit summoned her pure soul to dare the flight.
It should merely incite her to rise nearer and nearer to heaven, to the radiant light above, to which her soul would mount as easily as the eagle that before the pilgrim's eyes had vanished in the divine blue and the golden sunshine.
It seemed so close that the eagle soaring near her might reach it with a few strokes of his pinions.
When the great No Neck, of the Sioux nation, walks through the grounds with his war bonnet of eagle feathers trailing on the ground, the East Indians concede their defeat.
At the end of his walk he wanted to wear an eagle on his hat and shout till his throat should be stiff.
At the east end of the basin the Golden Republic glittered against the night, lifting her golden eagle high above the crowd.
Now we have simply the eagleand the cactus, and the redoubtable word "Libertad" stamped in the Phrygian bonnet.
The President gave a short address, and Mr. Wilson made one of his finished speeches--a happy combination of Stars and Stripes and Eagle and Cactus.
As reminder of his brief imperial career we found the Mexican eagle painted in profile on the old wooden benches.
The Iturbide coins are extremely rare, but I saw one the other day, and it is on them that the eagle and the cactus first appear.
That part of the state which lies below the Nueces River was for a time disputed territory, and long after Texans had given their lives to drive the Eagle of Mexico across the Rio Grande much of it remained a forbidden land.
The American eagle isn't screaming very loudly on the other side of the Rio Grande just now, and our dusky neighbors have learned that it's perfectly safe to pull his tail feathers.
The prentices especially could hardly meet without gibes and sneers, if nothing worse, and Stephen's exploit had a peculiar flavour because it was averred that no one at the Eagle would have done the like.
The Dragon, no doubt, turned out finer workmanship, and this the Eagle alleged was wholly owing to nefarious traffic with the old Spanish or Moorish sorcerer in Warwick Inner Yard, a thing unworthy of honest Englishmen.
He cut the string, and captured the bag, then with a parting kick bade Bates go after his comrades, for his Eagle was nought but a thieving kite.
The jealousy of the Eagle was proportionately increased.
I might be still standing bound like an eagle displayed, against yonder tree, for aught you fellows recked.
The Imperial double-headed eagle of Austria, is swooping over this morsel: 'I have long wished to strike my talons into that diabolical headpiece, and now I hope to do it effectually!
The grim destroyer, as the skeleton Death, is watching the baffled general face to face, assuming a parody of his attitude, and seated on a gun, with a broken eagle standard at his bony feet.
Phelps, but with our flag insulted and our eagle scoffed at by an empty legation at the national capital, the Hon.
At the main entrance the Sergeant-at-Arms should fetch the mace into a charge, and planting the eagle in the small of the culprit's back, thrust him out.
Hardly crediting his eyes, it appeared to be the armorial eagle of Poland, surmounted by its regal crown.
Another such upset to your friends of the Neva, and with 'victory perched like an eagle on their laurelled brows,' I may have some chance of wooing the Sobieskis to the banks of the Thames.
That eagle was introduced by Ivan the Third; a prince who began the work (completed by his grandson, Ivan the Fourth) of crushing the great boyars and destroying the free cities.
The knight in conflict with the dragon was proudly borne on the shield of Moscow hundreds of years before the Black Eagle was added to the Russian flag.
At the ceiling of this room hovered a golden eaglewith its wings outspread, and holding in its beak four diamond chains, on which the Queen's bed swung gently to and fro.
Their voice drowned the roar of the ocean, and scared the eagle from its nest.
With beaming eyes he looked down over the side of the magic eagle whose dark pinions were bearing him onwards to his home.
Do not flowers made of precious stones gleam along the silver walls; and in the third hall is there not the Queen's ruby bed swinging from the golden ceiling, and the eagle flapping his golden wings?
Outside and across the road is the Eagle Close, used as the College cricket and football field.
There has been, there is, no diminution of Northern determination to push on and keep pushing until the wings of the eagle again stretch from Maine to the Rio Grande.
In the back room of the Eagle Pharmacy was gathered once again the neighborhood forum, a wildly excited forum, which ever and anon pounded Mr. Hendricks on the back, and drank round after round of soda water and pop.
Lily was rather surprised, when she reached the Eagle Pharmacy, to find Pink Denslow coming out.
The fact that Lily Cardew knew the clerk at the Eagle Pharmacy was an unexpected complication.
It saw Ellen roasting a turkey, and a strange young man in the Eagle Pharmacy, a young man who did not smoke a pipe, and allowed no visitors in the back room.
From his boarding house near the Eagle Pharmacy to the Cardew residence was a half-hour's walk.
The Eagle Pharmacy had always been the neighborhood club, but with the advent of Willy Cameron it was attaining a new popularity.
The Eagle Pharmacy was a small one in a quiet neighborhood.
Mrs. Davis, the invalid wife of the owner of the Eagle Pharmacy, died and the store was closed.
