The King filled it a second time with the dripping drops, thinking his hawk was thirsty; but the bird again struck at the cup with her talons and overturned it.
The person, who carried the hawk, wore gloves to protect his hand from the sharp talons of the bird.
That he might be helpless in their hands, his wings and talons were cut, and a cork was put on his beak.
He is hawked at by the mousing owl, whose instinct instructs him that these talons have lost their grasp and these pinions their deathblow.
Balanced far above its prey, and, soon as the right moment came, ready to pounce down, and fly away with the treasure in its talons to its crying eyry!
I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it were a feather!
The struggle lasted long and, before the bird was mastered, its talons had scored the boy's thigh.
The rending beak and talons of the savage bird entangled in the yielding cloth.
None the less, he succeeded in pinning the fierce beak and talons into the coat and tying the sleeves together in such wise that the bird was tightly nipped.
One of these, covering about one hundred and fifty square feet, represented a large eagle bearing in his beak and talons a scroll inscribed in large capitals: "We have Met the Enemy and they are Ours.
The fish was not yet dead, but every now and then would contort its length in an effort to escape from the talons which were thrust deeper and deeper into it, making bright spots of blood on the scaly sides.
But the bird rose with dripping pinions, its talons empty.
And on the white of the flounder appeared bright red spots of blood, some of which dripped to the ground as the cruel talons closed until they met inside.
The creature dug its iron talons into Prometheus stomach.
At long last the eagle stood atop the giant, its talons at his stomach!
Its talons rip, its beak slashes, and Prometheus gasps in pain.
Whose cruel talons Albion's entrails tore, Whose hungry maw was glutted with her gore!
Prone on their routed rear the cranes descend; Their bills bite furious, and their talons rend; 190 With unrelenting ire they urge the chase, Sworn to exterminate the hated race.
When, now to cranes a prey, on talons hung, High in the clouds they saw their helpless lord, His wriggling form still lessening as he soar'd.
I had thought him a coward, and yet how brave and determined he was, but yet how helpless now that the tiger had crept up closely and sprung into the howdah to force him back and plant its talons in his throat.
Like eagles' talons grew his nails: His limbs were thick and strong; And dreadful was the knotted oak He bare with him along.
Was I a man, ere I Would live in poor estate; On father, friends, and all my kin, 95 I would my talons grate.
If the talons are to be grasping any kind of prey, the object must be placed at once, before the feet begin to dry.
A red-tailed hawk has just killed a ruffed grouse, and has scarcely begun his meal when a goshawk swoops down upon him with outstretched talonsto seize the quarry.
There a voracious vulture was summoned to feast upon his liver, the tearing of which from his side by the bird's cruel beak and talons caused the sufferer intense anguish.
Again the icy prickling over scalp and skin--for itstalons stretched out to grasp a steed that Death himself might have ridden, a rack whose bare skull hung drooping upon bent vertebrae.
The black talonsof Yuruk stretched around his throat "Son of unclean dogs!
Then he began to move slowly his tremendously long arms in easy, soothing motion, the hands running along the floor upon their talons in arcs and circles.
There's no a single scratch about the puir innocent, for the Eagle, you see, maun hae stuck its talons into the lang claes and the shawl.
Thoughts that came flying against us like vultures, like vultures have disappeared, disappointed of their prey, and afraid to fix their talons in a thing alive.
Its bill and talons are exceedingly large and strong; and its courage is equal to its strength.
The eyes are large, the legs and feet yellow, the talons black.
This bird has beautiful hazel eyes, full of animation: his legs are feathered down a little below the tarsal joint, the naked part being red; his talons are very long.
The feet are feathered down to the claws, which have a wonderful grasp; the toes are yellow, and the four talons are crooked and strong.
It is one of the few Owls that feed on fish, into which it strikes its talons while in the water, and carries them off to its nest.
Luckily it missed, but she would not have escaped her mother's talons if I had not flung myself between them.
My mother wishes me to do so, and the old financier fancies he has got me in his talons already; but he makes a mistake, as I will never consent to such a thing.
The Eagle sometimes kills its prey with the force of its swoop, without clutching with talons or beak.
The raven has now fixed his great talons on her shoulder, and chuckles and croaks in her ear as she pursues her occupation.
Ay," replied Alizon, trembling like a dove in the talons of a hawk.
While some guarded the entrances, others leaped straight to us, and forming a circle about us began to strike with talons and spurs at unseen things that screamed and sought to escape.
They soon returned, and we observed that each of them carried between its talons an enormous rock.
As for the creature I killed, I took it to be a kind of hawk, its color and beak resembling it, but it had no talons or claws more than common.
His ears resembled those of an elephant, and covered his shoulders; and his nails were as long and crooked as the talons of the greatest birds.
I lay some time in a situation which no language can describe, expecting to feel his teeth or talons in some part of me every moment.
Although these animals cannot climb trees, because of the manner in which their claws are made, there are certain trees to which they are very fond of resorting, in order to sharpen their talons upon the bark.
The tiger is much more powerful, and has his talons and fangs to fight with.
And when at last one of the old birds returns with a mouse in its talons the outcry grows louder than ever.
They were both so much moved that they cried aloud like eagles or vultures with crooked talons that have been robbed of their half fledged young by peasants.
As he was thus speaking a bird flew on his right hand--an eagle with a great white goose in its talons which it had carried off from the farm yard--and all the men and women were running after it and shouting.
