Look up--rejoice--for now thy brave And worthy eagletsdare the light.
When the wild snow-storms rage round the eyrie, and the mountain cold is felt, that is death to an unprotected sleeper, how warm the little eaglets are kept!
If one of the eaglets wanted to see for itself what was going on, and thought it could take care of itself for a little while, and hopped from under the shadow of the wings, it would be neither safe nor warm.
How many eagletsare there besides Mercedes and the little boy you named?
The eaglets at once set up a cry for food, so shrill, so clear, and so clamorous that the boy was greatly moved.
Again the eaglets set up their cry, which was soon hushed by the distribution of a dinner, such as, save the cooking, a king might admire.
Eaglets are occasionally fed on young lambs, as skulls near eagle's nests in the cliffs bear evidence.
The young eaglets are fed in part upon spring lamb from the near-by wild flocks.
Like eaglets floating in the heaven of time, They soar above their quarry, and shall stoop Through palaces and temples thunderproof.
Illustration] The eaglets disturbed by all this clamor perched on the edges of their nest as though deliberating upon the hazard of trying for the first time their wings in the dizzy space of blue.
Still retaining the bow, Florimel climbed out toward the nest, intending to usurp possession of it, and with timid flaps of their untried wings the eaglets essayed flight.
Florimel looked up and spied the young eaglets who were just old enough to essay flight, selfishly trying to crowd each other out of their airy structure of sticks and straws.
In another AEsopian fable, the rabbit avenges itself upon the eagle which has eaten its young ones, by rooting up and throwing down the tree upon which the eagle has its nest, so that the eaglets are killed.
What is said of the eaglets and the parent bird, when she returned to the nest?
The eaglets at once set up a cry for food, so shrill, so clear, and so clamorous, that the boy was greatly moved.
They call us eagletsin sooth; and do eaglets rest for ever in their mountain eyry?
Or did you meet a pretty page Sat swinging on the gate; Sat whistling whistling like a bird, Or may be slept too late; With eagletsbroidered on his cap, And eaglets on his glove?
When the old eagle plumped the little old man down into the nest, just imagine, if you can, how astonished the eaglets were!
And he didn't sleep well, either, for whenever one of the eaglets woke up in the night, it always pinched him with its beak, to make sure he was there.
With that the plucky fellow crawled back into the niche, put the two little eaglets in his bag, thrust his leg through the loop, grasped the rope with both hands, and was safely lowered to the floor of the canyon.
Then he slipped one leg through the loop at the end of the cord and turned to look into the dark hole, where he could hear the eaglets “talking.
It was decided that we would not disturb the eaglets to-day, but would leave them alone for the present, for fear the old eagles would become alarmed and suspicious, and we would fail in capturing them.
When we went back to the place where we could overlook the nest it was evident that there would be some difficulty in getting down onto the ledge where the young eaglets lay quietly sleeping.
Then I made the attempt to tie together the legs of the young eaglets to have them also drawn up to the summit.
Eagles are very affectionate and faithful to their little ones as long as they need care; but once the young eaglets are able to take care of themselves, the parent birds drive them from the nest, and even from the hunting ground.
Here, standing on the ledge of rock, the eagle tears the food into morsels, which the eagletseagerly devour.
Eaglets two or three years old are described in books of natural history as ring-tailed eagles, and are sometimes taken for a distinct species of the royal bird, while in reality they are the children of the golden eagle tribe.
Twinkle and Chubbins were standing together at the edge of the crag when one of the eaglets suddenly spread out his wide, stiff wings and pushed them over the precipice.
Neither the nest nor the eaglets appeared to be very clean, and a disagreeable smell hung over the place.
Then lead your troop to Victory--for the Eaglets are calling you!
So Shamus went down, and did as his father bade him, and came up again when theeaglets were doctored.
With a bold hand the Eaglets are grasped, still too young to oppose resistance.
A peasant in Ireland kept himself and the whole of his family for an entire season by robbing the Eaglets in a neighbouring aerie of the stores of food which were brought to them by the parent birds.
Eaglets being very voracious, the parent birds are compelled to hunt with great assiduity.
But little height is needed for this picture, so the traceries above come down low, and are filled by a throng of blue eaglets on a golden ground, the heraldic insignia of the Montmorencys.
The traceries of the three easternmost choir embrasures are filled with blue eaglets on a golden ground, the insignia of the Montmorencys.
In recognition of these deeds of prowess King Philip Augustus added twelve more eaglets to his arms, one for each captured standard, thus raising the total to sixteen.
Later I returned several times, and from a distance watched the eaglets being fed.
Both birds seemed to know instinctively why I had come, and that the fate of the eaglets lay in my hands if I could but scale the cliff.
It seems to have been about this time that the unhappy King caused a picture to be painted of four eaglets tearing their father's breast.
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