My lord of Arran's offering is but two dead golden eagles -- and for the matter of that his Majesty might have all the eagles in Arran, and welcome, for we have over many of them.
As I lingered, gazing on the vast show, luminous shadowy clouds seemed to increase in glory of color and motion, now fondling the highest peaks with infinite tenderness of touch, now hovering above them like eagles over their nests.
Captain Berridge thus escaped with a wetting, and the Potamochoerus and eagles were half drowned.
The wolves and the buzzards thickened about us with every hour, and two or three eagles also came into the feast.
He did not know that, if such deeds kept on, before many years there would be no eagles flying proudly through the air: there would be only pictures ofeagles on our money and banners.
For not only were the sons of eagles flying, but the sons of men were flying, too.
He did not even know that, far to the northwest, there was a part of the country called Alaska, where eagles had lived in safety and had brought up their young in peace long after their haunts in most parts of the land had been disturbed.
Eagles have nested in that tree for more than seventy years, and nobody except a newcomer would think of shooting one.
The eagles here usually eat fish from the lake, and sometimes game from the swamp; but once in a very, very long while they take a lamb.
Here the eagles still have their nest, for Nature has secured them from the hand of man.
They have hens, a few goats, and perhaps some lean mountain sheep, and all these are liable to visitations from the eagles when rearing their young.
Gormack, the weird, a thane of the Pictish race, had his dwelling near the giddy cliffs where the youngeagles scream to the roar of the dark waters of the Forth.
In that far retirement repeated generations of that daring family had grown up and rushed forth, like young eagles from their mountain-eyrie, to the field of strife; and not unfrequently never to return.
Eagles are somewhat sluggish birds, resembling Buzzards in disposition, and exhibit none of that dash and activity characteristic of the Falcons, or even of the short-winged Hawks.
Some of these fatalities are due to the carelessness of shepherds and keepers, who take good care that the sheep farmer shall be made to believe that Eagles are responsible for them.
The two species of British Eagles must also be mentioned as visitors to the Highland moors, although not exclusively indigenous to them.
Dealing with the resident species first, we have the two species of British Eagles that in spite of persecution have managed to retain their place in our avifauna.
The sovereignty of Greece and Rome is not yet passed away, though the gods of the one be dead and the eagles of the other tired.
Sometimes eagles have their nests in places accessible without a rope, and instances are known of persons frequenting these nests, for the purpose of carrying off the prey which the eagles carry to their young.
In this manner, multitudes of eagles are yearly destroyed in Scotland.
On they came, those Northern horsemen, On like eagles toward the sun, Followed then the Northern bayonet, And the field was lost and won.
What imps theseeagles then, that they Fling disrespect on life by that proud way In which they soar above our lower clay.
What was Harry Sanderson thinking, as, under that speechless regard, he mechanically gathered the scattered cards and lifted the little cross and the unopened bag of double-eagles from the table?
In the study Harry Sanderson stood for a moment with the cards and the bag of double-eagles in his hand.
He snapped the cord from the neck of one of these and a ringing stream of double-eagles swept jingling on the table.
The eagles sat down seemingly fatigued, when the heat of the sun soon caused them both to fall asleep, nor did I long resist its fascinating power.
In these cold climates I observed that the eagles flew with greater rapidity, in order, I suppose, to keep their blood in circulation.
Having secured a good stock of provisions, and perceiving the eagles begin to recover, I again took my seat.
By this time the eagles began to stagger against the shrubs.
The cattle, seeing there is no safety in flight, herd together when he appears on the horizon, and try to look unconscious; the hyenas go to snarl at a distance; the eagles and the serpents aver afterwards that they were asleep.
At last, on the following day, when the great bird had been completely cleansed, it plunged into the lake, and again the two eagles picked and cleansed it.
At the hour of noon two eagles came up from the south-west and alit in front of the great bird, and after resting awhile they set to work picking off the insects that infested its jaws and eyes and ears.
The eagles and falcons have similar emarginations.
Eagles and hawks, in like manner, teach their young to capture swiftly moving prey by dropping food to them in mid-air.
There was a slight fluster and trembling, which the ravens could hear and which made them grin with delight, but the eagles never said a word.
He used to imagine that even little wooden eagles must get very tired of always being just the same.
And, as you can imagine, when Brother Black Raven heard the eagles boasting he knew it was high time to begin and frighten them.
As a matter of fact, though the white-tailed eagles won't admit it, they are less brave than any of the eagle families.
And still the eagles said not a word--nor made a sound.
And what makes us feel so sad is that we are called eagles and should fly and yet are forever glued to this chair.
Soon the pirates disappeared entirely, and the four eagles of the Roman chair were looking at him steadily.
Some white-tailed eagles were boasting one day of their bravery," commenced daddy.
The eagles did not go on boasting, but they were very contented that the ravens had gone away!
The bride made her state entry in a carriage decorated with silver eagles and drawn by ten pied horses.
The Kozak and his wiry steed became as much a part of the fauna of the great Russian plain as the wolves, the hawks, and the steppe-eagles that hunted and roamed throughout its wide expanse.
The Swedish raven and the Slav eagles sat inertly blinking at each other, or indulged in desultory sparring over the remains of their banquet.
I made it my duty to inspect the churches and the sacred ceremonies of religion, as well as the management of my property, my stables, and the eagles and hawks of my hunting establishment.
But already the bird on the oak warned him of misfortune, the wolves set the ravines in alarm, the eagles with loud screams called hither the beasts to the banquet, the foxes barked at the purple shields.
Not in Judaea only, but wherever the carcase was, there would the eagles be gathered together.
Many a time since the Roman eagles flocked to Jerusalem has that prophecy been fulfilled; and many a time will it be fulfilled once more, and yet once more.
To crows and to the eagles of the air, Usurped my father's throne, and sad to tell, He instant orders gave to murder us.
The eagles seldom went far outside a given circle, so that they could only be glimpsed from above occasionally; and it was like shooting at a disappearing target in the gallery, to try and hit them under such circumstances.
He shuddered as he contemplated what an ugly tumble he must have experienced, if those fighting eagles had succeeded in knocking him off the ledge.
Old Gaspard spent his afternoons in watching the eagles and other rare birds which ventured on to those frozen heights; while Ulrich journeyed regularly to the neck of the Gemmi to look at the village.
When at Worksop he used to feed his eagles with the pups; and a stranger to his exclusive pride in the race, seeing him one day employed in thus destroying a whole litter, told his grace how much he should be delighted to possess one of them.
And he said unto them: wheresoever The body shall be, thither will the eagles resort.
For wheresoever a dead body is, even thither will the eagles resort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eagles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
