eyry

How To Use eyry In A Sentence

• The bald eagle never glanced so fiercely from his eyry. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
• When Roland Graeme was a youth about seventeen years of age, he chanced one summer morning to descend to the mew in which Sir Halbert Glendinning kept his hawks, in order to superintend the training of an eyas, or young hawk, which he himself, at the imminent risk of neck and limbs, had taken from the celebrated eyry in the neighborhood, called Gledscraig. The Abbot
• They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
• They were all brave men at Lepanto on this memorable October day; but few there were like the corsair king, in whom a heart of fire was kept in check by a brain of ice, who, during the whole combat, never gave away a chance, or failed to swoop like an eagle from his eyry when the blunders of his enemy gave him the opportunity for which he watched. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
• Nym flour and wytys of eyryn sugur other hony and sweyng togedere and mak a batour nym wyte grees and do yt in a posnet and cast the batur thereyn and stury to thou have many [2] and tak hem up and messe hem wyth the frutours and serve forthe. The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
• Such was the programme; and the eager curiosity of the select few who were invited brought them punctually to the philosopher's eyry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
• There was only one good thing about them, if indeed it were good, to wit, their faith to one another, and truth to their wild eyry. Lorna Doone
• He, to hear my mother's name made a byword and reproach, myself alluded to as the indigent daughter of an outcast, -- he, who seemed already lifted as high above me on the eagle wings of fortune, as the eyry of the king-bird is above the nest of the swallow, -- it was more than I could bear. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
• These, perched like the eagle's eyry on the very edge and summit of those crested heights that "breast the billows foam," are the _preventive stations_, inhabited by the _dumb_ and isolated members of the blockade. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829