Indeed, I'd probably forgotten at that time that we had Lady Osprey as a neighbour.
There were moments when I think I really made Lady Osprey believe that my call was an unavoidable necessity, that it would have been negligent of me not to call just how and when I did.
Lady Ospreyevidently regarded flying as a most indesirable and improper topic--a blasphemous intrusion upon the angels.
Lady Osprey became a deeper shade of pink and speechless with indignation--it was evident she disavowed all further responsibility, as she followed my aunt upstairs.
I tried to understand Lady Osprey's game of patience, but it didn't appear that Lady Osprey was anxious for me to understand her patience.
Whether the household had my ultimatum or whether she told Beatrice directly I do not know, and what Lady Osprey can have made of it in the former case I don't imagine.
Lady Osprey was interested in my face and scrutinised the scar.
She glanced over her shoulder and Lady Osprey had resumed her patience.
The Osprey dashes down on the teal, or sea-trout, swimming within or below their shadow.
The rest of the day passed quietly, though there was a freedom in the new mate's manner which made the redoubtable skipper of the Osprey regret her change of crew, and to treat him with more civility than her proud spirit quite approved of.
And now the poor defrauded osprey must go to work and catch another fish before he can have his dinner.
The eagle is considerably larger than his victim, being about three feet in length, while the osprey is only about two feet.
It would be impossible, in releasing Mr. Harley and Senator Hanway from their obligations as members of the osprey pool, to avoid an explanation.
But no one in the Senate, no one indeed not of the osprey pool, had heard of Credit Magellan.
Mr. Harley, being thus reminded of the osprey pool, remarked that he received a line that afternoon saying the mysterious builder of the corner in Northern Consolidated had been discovered in Robert Lance Bayard.
That precious document was in his possession; the osprey pool had not been granted its custody.
Mr. Bayard was sure the members of the osprey pool designed a "bear" campaign.
They could not name him who had worked the "corner" against them and the other members of the osprey pool, the hand that defeated them had been played from behind a curtain.
As for Mr. Harley and Senator Hanway, Richard would have them released without loss; they were to be restored, plack and bawbee, to what had been theirs on that tumultuous Wednesday when the osprey pool made its initial swoop.
Those four millions which had been decided upon as the fund of the osprey pool were banked ready to the hand of the old gray buccaneer.
Days before the smash, that osprey pool had perfected the last fragment of its arrangements.
The affair excited no comment, and was forgotten within the hour by all except Storri and Mr. Harley and those others of the osprey pool.
This time Storri would have no partners; there would be no Mr. Harleys and no osprey pools to sell him out.
It would cost him nothing, lose him nothing; once cornered, the question whether that osprey pool were cornered at twenty or at thirty or at forty was unimportant.
Within ten minutes after he received them they were on their way to Richard, with a letter telling how complete had been the osprey pool's defeat.
No matter how foggy the day or how quietly the diving osprey may splash to catch his fish dinner, any bald-headed eagle in the vicinity is sure to detect him in the act of seizing it, and then to relieve him of it instantly.
For the rest of the summer the widowed osprey always stayed about when the fisherman hauled his net on the beach, and bore away to her nest the worthless fish he left in it for her special benefit.
The osprey is a frequent sufferer, although some of the water fowl, that patiently course over the waves hour after hour, in search of a dinner, may be robbed of it by the overpowering pirate.
The bald eagle and the osprey are also sometimes classed as sea eagles.
But the minute the osprey caught it, it belonged to the osprey, just as much as it would belong to you if you caught it with a net or a hook.
Yes, the osprey was a wonderful fisherman, who could snatch a fish from the water in his sure claws.
He used, sometimes, to sit high up on a cliff and watch the ospreyswoop down to the water.
And did the fish belong to the osprey or to Uncle Sam?
When we think about it that way, it is very easy to tell whether the fish belonged to the osprey or to Uncle Sam.
So we admire Fisherman Osprey for his strength and swiftness and skill, and are glad for him when he flies off with the prize, which is his very own as long as he can keep it.
The ospreywas there, too, and I saw him abusing the bald eagle, who had probably just robbed him of a fish.
The osprey feeds almost entirely upon fish, and may be seen sweeping to and fro over the water, keenly watching for its victims as they rise to the surface.
Bell says that he has seen an osprey resting on one of the posts in Hickling Broad, and it was so gorged after a meal of fish that he rowed quite close to it.
The ospreyand the sea-eagle, whose aeries were on the rocky heights, the father trapped with cunning snares, and from the combs of the wild bees on the hillside the son collected wax.
Among them came one flying swifter and greater than osprey or sea-eagle, and the gulls all dived at his approach.
First came the mauve toque with its white osprey quite graciously animated, then a blue and wide one in turquoise, which from that foreshortened view completely hid the shimmering gold of the hair of Adelaide Maud.
An osprey waved luxuriantly in a mauve toque, and her black dress bristled with grandeur.
Coming to the surface more quickly the next time, the osprey swung his head far back, and with his ugly hook shaped beak struck the fish a mighty blow on the back of the head.
A gentleman tells of an Osprey that fastened his claws in a fish that was too large for him.
It must be interesting to watch the Osprey at his fishing.
The Ospreybuilds his nest much like the Bald Eagle.
I found the young osprey dead, hanging dismembered upon a branch below the nest.
A discussion ensued over the possible cause of the death of the osprey and the suggestion of accident was decided to be the plausible one.
Osprey Reef, which lies in mid-ocean, about 80 miles from the Barrier.
Osprey Reef, when suddenly the mate, who was forward, sung out, "Breakers ahead!
We did not sight the Osprey Reef, but must have passed about 10 miles to windward of it.
When, however, he found that night was only an hour or so off, and realized that unless he pocketed his pride, he stood a chance of spending many gloomy hours aloft with only the osprey family for neighbors, he started to shout.
It's too much bother for the eagle to plunge down and hook a fish for himself, so he waits until an osprey gets one, then follows him up into the air and makes him drop his prize.
I remember that Will seemed set on getting a picture of that ospreynest he had discovered.
But later on, after getting his long delayed pictures of the old osprey feeding its fledglings, when the ardent photographer attempted to descend the big tree he found it an impossible task.
He was gone only a short time, during which Frank asked a few questions, and learned that Will believed he had secured a number of "cracking good" pictures of the osprey group that would make a fine addition to his collection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "osprey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
