Before daylight we were aroused by the breaking-up of camp, and by seven o'clock had taken a downward course from that lofty eyrie which we had occupied for ten days.
From below, the eyriewas accessible to within a dozen feet; but that interval proved impassable.
An hour later Dionýsio, who had climbed the crag above me, whence he could see into the abyss beneath, signalled as he hung over the edge of his eyrie that something was coming.
We expected to find the eyrie somewhere hard by, but in this we were mistaken--once more.
Within sight (though fifteen miles away) is another eyrie of this species--the alternative nests not ten feet apart, merely a projecting buttress of rock separating the two vertical fissures in which they rest.
Only once have we found a nest in a tree; it was a giant oak, impending a ravine so precipitous that from the eyrie you could drop a pebble into a torrent 200 feet below.
From the knife-edged ridge above our eagle's eyrie (height 5500 feet) we enjoyed a memorable view.
At the entrance of the open-air roof garden of the Eyrie he ran into Nelson Langmaid.
The Eyrie was a famous lunch club, of limited membership, at the top of the Parr Building, where financial affairs of the first importance were discussed and settled.
The true eagle is sullen and solitary, and chooses hiseyrie many miles removed from his fellows.
As we dashed down the defile near the park line, we doffed our hats and bade adieu to the eagle sitting on its eyrie as we had seen him on our entrance.
Gone in the sunshine, and haply seated in his eyrieon Ben Lomond's head.
They climbed out of the smelting town, where eyrie houses perched insecurely on a precipitous landscape.
The field glowed like rough gold in the approaching sunset, and near the middle of it stood a solitary great redwood, with blasted top suggesting a nesting eyrie for eagles.
There a black and yawning fissure whose polished sides would hardly seem to afford resting-place for the eyrie of yon great war-eagle soaring high above, his plumage gleaming in the lustre of the new-born day.
The Great Eyriewas then indeed the crater of a volcano buried in the bowels of the mountains.
The height of the Great Eyriescarce exceeds five thousand feet.
But the wall of the Great Eyrie on that side rose so high, it completely hid the interior.
Moreover, how could these men have, themselves, gained entrance into the Eyrie unless there existed a passage which we had failed to discover?
It appeared possible that the Great Eyrie had not really been the theater of volcanic phenomena at all.
I should be glad, both for my own sake, and for the renown which would attach to my mission if the Great Eyrie proved the center of the most remarkable phenomena--of which I would discover the cause.
By morning the crests of the Great Eyrie showed scarcely the least remnant of its cloud of smoke.
How long this sojourn or rather relaxation of the "Terror" in the Great Eyrie was to last, I did not know.
Moreover, before the recent startling occurrences the Great Eyrie had not particularly attracted the attention of tourists.
Might not the Great Eyrie reproduce in its neighborhood the violence of Mount Krakatoa or the terrible disaster of Mont Pelee?
In short, it was evident that the ascent of the Great Eyrie would require far more time than we had estimated.
He mourned that Lord Eyrie was not in the country, that he might take Pen and present him to his lordship.
This fascinating book on the Peregrine Falcon--the grandest bird of prey left in England--combines the salient facts of almost innumerable field notes written at the eyrie itself.
Saxon hearts, Lo the Eagle quits his eyrie swifter than a swallow darts, And the lurid flame of battle burns within his angry eye, Glowing like a living ember cast in vengeance from the sky.
Westward, westward flies the eagle, westward with the setting sun, To an eyrie growing golden in a morning just begun; Where the world is new in promise of a virgin nation's love.
From the eyrie where his soul is wont to sit, John Markham has a fine perspective on life--yours and mine.
The glow of the fire painted the trunks of the trees which rose in dim majesty to where their branches held eyrie among the stars.
Meanwhile Jaffery lingered on in London, in the cheerless little eyrie in Victoria Street, with no apparent intention of ever leaving it.
Happening to be in Westminster in the forenoon--I had come up to town on business--I mounted to his cheerless eyrie in Victoria Street, and rang the bell.
We also were in a mood to sing praises as we drove back to the friendly hotel in its high eyrie of garden.
But he did not find this bird so easy a prey as he could have wished; indeed the turkey at once made up his mind to have a tussle for it; he did not mean to accept so hasty an invitation to breakfast--in an eyrie of all places.
The top of the cliff projects farther than the eyrie itself; in his descent the rope had oscillated with his weight, and he had unknowingly been swung on to the ledge of rock.
The imps in the eyrie have been fed, and their hungry cry will not be heard till the dawn.
The eyrie was well known, and both old birds were visible on the rock-ledge.
Celt, whose quiet eye brightens as it pursues the Bird to her eyriein the cliff over the cove where the red-deer feed.
From the size of the animal, it must be the female; and her eyrie is in that high rock.
By rocky paths he would lead her, beyond the olives and the vines, beyond the last cottage of the contadini, up to some eyrie from which they could look down upon the sunlit world.
Hermione's cottage, the eyrie to which she was bringing Maurice Delarey, was only a cottage, although to Lucrezia it seemed almost a palace.
Maurice remembered his wild longing to carry Maddalena off upon the sea, or to some eyrie in the mountains, to be alone with her in some savage place.
In those very first days together, isolated in their eyrie of the mountains, Hermione had let herself go--as she herself would have said.
For some days we sought in vain: at last we espied an eyrie which appeared to give promise of success.
Thus it happens that while in a range of sierra inhabited by Griffons, the Lammergeyer will not be found, yet a pair of the latter usually have their eyrie at no great distance from the vulture-colony.
Now this eyrie is deserted, the daylight shows through its centre, and the tree is occupied by different tenants--a pair of Cushats: before now we have seen them share the same tree with the tyrant.
We can only state the bare fact, as above, and surmise that the youngster was yesterday the occupant of the eyrie we had travelled so far to despoil, and that the actual and would-be destroyers had thus accidentally come in collision.
Sunday was always a very lonely day in the little eyrie among the mountains, and during these past weeks they had seemed specially empty and solitary to the little Morag.
Here in my mountain eyrie I am Cojuelo, the outlaw, acknowledging no laws save those I make myself.
The entrance to my mountain eyrie is narrow and unprepossessing, but I promise you that you shall find comfort within.
Elsewhere in the grounds there was a lawn tennis court to tempt the officers down from their eyrie in the clouds.
I am glad to see you, Mr. Tudor, and I am sorry that I interrupted your visit, but this is the first time that the Eyrie has had company.
As some more lumber was needed the men drove the trucks back to town, but they promised to come early and expected to stay the next night and, indeed, until the Eyrie was completed.
Peggy had asked permission to stay at theEyrie if she were asked for supper, rather imagining that she would be, if chance took her there at the time.
Peggy ran around to where Dalton was on his knees, pointing up the step in front of the Eyrie door.
I would sleep in the Eyrie now, to watch it, if it were not for being farther away from you girls.
You have never been over and Mother was saying that she wanted to see the rest of the Eyrie family.
Now that we've had the brilliant idea of an Eyrie first, here on the rocks, that ought to be finished pronto, and its one big room will do for you girls if our company comes before the shack in the woods gets finished.
Then at last came Peggy and Jack, the very day after the Eyrie was completed, coming in the Ives' launch and docking where they had left Leslie.
Dalton was on his feet now, replacing the boards by which they could enter the Eyrie door without setting foot upon the wide step, just completed.
But he finally consented to have the girls move over to the Eyrie, which suited Beth; nor did she know how many times Dalton wakened at first and came over to see if Eyrie and girls were safe.
Such progress was made that in a few days the entire Eyrie was complete, "lookout," stone wall and all.
By the flickering light they strolled around to look at the place where the Eyrie was to be built.
The girls were soon asleep in the Eyrie with their door barred, though Leslie wakened before daylight to lie and think about Peggy.
Let's take it to the Eyrie and read it very slowly so's to make it last a long time!
In the most shadowy corner of the Eyrie Pat had crept and there she had found strength to bear the suspense!
On Christmas Eve the Eyrie was emptied of the treasures it had held, the stockings hanging over the library fireplace were filled and little piles of tissue paper packages of all sizes were made for Jasper, Melodia and Maggie.
Going downstairs from one of these vigils in the Eyrie she heard Sheila's voice.
Pat stared at Renee and Renee stared back; in the quiet of the Eyrie they thought up all sorts of explanations and stories--tragic, all of them!
The mystic door of the Eagles' Eyrie opened wide enough to admit Peggy Lee and Keineth Randolph.
And as Aunt Pen began to read no one minded the rain beating in torrents against the Eyrie windows!
Against the windows of the Eyrie the storm beat relentlessly--rain and hail; gusts of wind, sounding like witches' voices around the gable.
It was necessary, before they started forth, for Pat to open her treasure box in the Eyrie and take from it the crisp six dollar bills which she had ready for her Victory pledge, due on April first.
So the fat envelope was carried to the Eyrie and Aunt Pen sat down in the one sound chair while Pat and Renee stretched out on the floor at her feet.
As Garrett grew stronger the young people deserted the Eyrie for the pleasant Lee living-room.
She spent almost all her time in the Eyrie with the door locked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyrie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
