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Sentence Examples
Over 100 eyries were known in Britain and at least 50 in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century.
It dens down in rocky cairns, under tree roots, sometimes even in the disused eyries of a golden eagle.
Bald Eagles build large stick nests called eyries in tall trees or on cliffs.
A recent report of poisoned pigeons being found pegged out close to Peregrine eyries in Wales was almost certainly the work of pigeon fanciers.
Banding teams either rappelled or climbed to eyries that contained young.
Examples from Classical Literature
Flanked by sheer precipices, it was reached only by two narrow paths enfiladed by watch-towers, eyries, and batteries of boulders.
The victorious eagles of the victorious legions had flown to their eyries forever.
Gray and Sir Humphrey Davy watched the eagles in their eyries, and the former tells how he saw them robbed of their young.
The farmers and dalesmen were always careful to plunder the eyries, but not without considerable risk to life and limb.
Some of their eyries appeared absolutely inaccessible to any creature unendowed with wings.
Their tops, now inaccessible, are to be the future eyries of self-crowned railroad nobs and rude bonanza barons.
The eagles, who nest on more than 20 eyries in the Uists, have been at the centre of claims that they have snatched scores of lambs.
The eagles have been dislodged from their eyries on Eagle Crag.
No, owls and impure birds do not make their nests in the eyries of eagles.
The birds went back to their eyries, and the troubled water was still.
These merchants came to the valley at the time when the eagles, which keep their eyries in the rocks, had hatched their young.
Each pair tends to have two or three traditional eyries in its home range, which are used in different years.
Over the next 12 months volunteers plan to erect build three more eyries in the Bala area, three alongside the River Conwy, one next to the River Dee and one on the Mersey.
There, from their eyries, while the world heaved and throbbed below, the kings of men sent forth their eagle thoughts to wing their flight through the ages.
A naval spokesman yesterday said a team of eight divers were currently scanning Allihies and Eyries for signs of the teenager.
