How To Use gerfalcon In A Sentence
- [Footnote 4: A gerfalcon is a large falcon of Northern Europe.] "Oft to his frozen lair Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
- He had taken with him for his amusement a favorite gerfalcon of the queen. The Alhambra
- And if so be that he be a wedded man, that his wife shall have the degree, and a coronal of gold beset with stones of virtue to the value of a thousand pound, and a white gerfalcon. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- He always had a hand as true as steel, and an eye like a gerfalcon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
- I am told he governs like a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord the duke, of course, also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I have not made a mistake in choosing him for that same government; for I would have Senora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to find in this world and may God make me as good as Sancho's way of governing. Don Quixote
- So would it be if the falcon were to flee from the duck, and the gerfalcon from the heron, and the great pike from the minnow, and if the stag were to chase the lion; so do things go topsy-turvy. Cligés. English
- And these same youthful lords had but that hour returned from the chase so that they stood yet in the courtyard, each bearing upon his wrist his gerfalcon, hooded and jessed. Huon of the Horn
- And who that putteth that knight to the worse shall have a fair maid and a gerfalcon. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- And these same youthful lords had but that hour returned from the chase so that they stood yet in the courtyard, each bearing upon his wrist his gerfalcon, hooded and jessed. Huon of the Horn
- Uwaine smote down thirty knights, therefore was given him the prize, and that was a gerfalcon, and a white steed trapped with cloth of gold. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
