Sentence Examples
He shot a quick glance to Jake, who had the eyes of a hawk sizing up a rabbit. |
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In Scandinavia, hawk owls usually breed only during bursts in the population of voles and lemmings. |
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It has also been called grasshopper hawk, killy hawk, house hawk, rusty-crowned falcon, and windhover. |
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The second tale was also to do with predators, and the present obsession with preserving every hawk and buzzard on the wing. |
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A woman in a white flowing robe walks through an Egyptian temple as a hawk swoops over her shoulder. |
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There are still many native birds in the shrubland including bellbirds, kingfishers, silvereye and the hawk or kahu. |
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But hawk owls, perhaps descended from bird hunters, are skilled aerial predators in their own right. |
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel. |
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However, the hawk is larger and stockier, with clean white underwings and distinctive dark wrists and belly. |
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Look for the soaring rough-legged hawk and the hovering kestrel as each hunts for ground squirrels and other rodents. |
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Adrian also says the hawk is trailing leather straps which tied it to a perch. |
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Outpatients need to be watched like a hawk, because once you stop treatment, it can reoccur. |
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Greenspan, an old-school anti-inflation hawk of the traditional economy, is among the first to realize the potential in the modern, high-productivity new economy. |
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She was crouched, waiting, next to another Elf and a hawk lycanthrope as other Elves moved across bridges, in and out of trees, all hooded with their weapons concealed. |
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I can't help muttering under my breath, though, willing the hawk on. |
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When John F. Kennedy ran against Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, he did so as a hawk. |
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But if neocons are merely one kind of hawk, then what distinguishes them from all the rest? |
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The release of white tailed eagle, Harris hawk and lanner falcon would be an offence under Section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 unless licensed. |
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Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads. |
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Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies. |
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But the hawk system, the official noted, is much more difficult to operate than the Russian Buk system. |
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A veteran hawk, Prime Minister Abe wants to strengthen Japan, even review its pacifist constitution. |
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The veteran 36-year-old striker was the star of the 2006 World Cup German team that Klinsmann coached, and is a total ball hawk. |
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At the same time, maybe she should hawk it up a little, especially if Rand Paul is the nominee. |
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The NSPG meeting defined the official line on the hawk deal, but it did not address the funding diversion. |
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Nine vertebrate species, including the mountain plover, burrowing owl, golden eagle, and ferruginous hawk are said to depend on prairie dogs. |
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The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye. |
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The hawk boy's server is about the size and shape of a common garden hoe, but the handle is in the direction of the instrument. |
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If you find one you like, plan to guard it like a hawk until the purchase is finalized. |
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Another commonly seen symbol is the eagle, which is a symbol attributed to Saladin, and the hawk of the Qureish. |
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Common birds include the owl, roadrunner, cactus wren, and various species of hawk. |
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I wondered how some of that compassion for a hawk could be rechanneled to help human beings like those I had just seen dying in Darfur. |
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War hawk Norman Podhoretz wants to strike Iran now to avert disaster later. |
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This stance was, of course, hailed by the war hawk pundits as an example of Harper's leading role In confronting Russia. |
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When police raided his home they found African hawk eagles, jackal buzzards, goshawks and American kestrels. |
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Typical of the zoophilist who favors life's lower orders over humankind, Robinson Jeffers claimed he'd sooner kill a man than a hawk. |
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That said, you have to give coulter props for knowing how to hawk a book. |
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When crows, jays, or kingbirds spot a hawk, they often mob it because they don't want it around. |
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Apprentices must be at least 14 years old and they can possess only one raptor, such as an American kestrel or a red-shouldered hawk. |
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You can hear the squeaks of the red-shouldered hawk, the clicking of the hummingbird,'' said Langhans, director of volunteer services. |
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It sponsored the rehabilitation of a red-shouldered hawk named Ki at Eugene's Raptor Center. |
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If you can find safeties that can ball hawk like Earl Thomas and Jairus Byrd. |
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The only other contact with a sparrow hawk was when one slammed into my bird table. |
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To give you a flavour, the tarantula hawk wasp paralyses a spider, lays eggs inside it and the larvae eat it alive. |
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Since the beginning of June, the dead raptors include two great horned owls, a Coopers hawk, a red-tailed hawk and a red-shouldered hawk, Savaikie said. |
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But those sightings are all numerically dwarfed by the enormous broad-winged hawk migration of nearly two million birds that usually occurs in our region this coming week. |
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You see, we need someone to carry him and since you are a broad-winged hawk, we thought that Franky may be able to stay on your back without slipping off. |
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Fly-fishing the West River by the West Hill Dam this spring, I noticed a broad-winged hawk carrying off a water snake that it caught sunning on a warm rock. |
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She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize. |
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Rare and endangered species commonly found in the area include the peregrine falcon, red-headed woodpecker, red-shouldered hawk, gray bat, barking tree frog, and jewel darter. |
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A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act. |
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And watching Brendan getting stung by a tarantula hawk wasp? |
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One of the largest photographs is that of a tarantula hawk, yet its size left no room for the caption, which had to appear on the bottom of the preceding right hand page. |
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In the last weeks he made more belligerent proposals for the war on terrorism, which generated a barrage of charges that Kerry is a war hawk worse than Bush. |
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For it would surely improve the domestic standing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an unbudgeable hawk, and thereby indefinitely delay peace on that Middle Eastern front. |
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Thanks, but we'll pass on the greenery that's eaten by the black-tailed jackrabbit, who, in turn, serves as a main course for the red-tailed hawk. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
Neither the hawk nor the marten were present, and the chickaree was puzzled because he could see nothing else. |
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Like a bird that flees from a hawk, he has fallen into the hand of the fowler. |
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They doubtless received their name from the number of hawks which were seen there, aor signifying hawk in Portuguese. |
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With the Red-shoulder it is often called 'chicken hawk,' but does not deserve the name. |
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All I got to eat in the whole month was a small goat and a chicken hawk, and those I had to swallow wool, feathers and all. |
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And for all his garrulity, I know, Peter was really watching us with the eye of a hawk. |
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It was a signal meant for Denton, the third baseman, who was watching him like a hawk. |
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The name of chicken hawk is often applied to it, though it does not deserve the name, its diet being of a more humble kind. |
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A small Falcon, similar to the sharp-shinned hawk, but a much darker and stouter built bird. |
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And they cut him open and found under his heart a feather of the chicken hawk. |
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The hawk terrified out of its wits, flew off with a birr, leaving Poll to proceed homewards at pleasure. |
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The sparrow might as well dodge its own shadow as to dodge the sharp-shinned hawk. |
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A small Falcon, about 11 inches long, often confused with the sharp-shinned hawk, but much darker and a more stoutly built bird. |
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I have seen jays tease the sharp-shinned hawk in this way, and escape his retaliating blows by darting into a cedar-tree. |
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The sharp-shinned hawk rarely attacks full-grown poultry, but preys heavily on young chickens and song birds. |
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Evidently the swifts mistook the buzzard's shadow for that of the sharp-shinned hawk. |
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What journal do the persimmon and the buckeye keep, and the sharp-shinned hawk? |
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Cooper's hawk having a rounded tail with whitish tip, and the sharp-shinned hawk a square tail. |
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These included the peregrine falcon, sharp-shinned hawk, and Cooper's hawk. |
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The blinkered black pony came up like a hawk, with two of his own side behind him, and Benami's eye glittered as he raced. |
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Of course for all the early out-door lessons the hawk will be secured by a creance. |
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About this time the hawk and the blue jay came to see what had made all the noise. |
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A remarkable family is that of the hawk moths, which much resemble in shape and action humming birds. |
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One day I scared a hawk off the ground, and we took the sage hen he had caught and was eating, and made some soup of it. |
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As far back as we can see, Hathor is a cow, and Horus a hawk, and Anubis a jackal. |
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For verily I saw the owner of the dovecot from which the hawk has stolen the two doves. |
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A blackish patch on the sides of the throat, similar to that of the duck hawk. |
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As the Peregrine of falconry we know of the duck hawk as a fearless, dashing hunter of greater power of wing and talon. |
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After 10 minutes of this behavior, a red-tailed hawk screamed as it flew overhead. |
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I think if the hawk had come then, FIDO would have been more than a match for him. |
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The short-eared owl and especially the pigeon hawk consistently preyed on longspurs. |
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To her, who took no sides, there was every bit as much to be said for the hawk as for the chaffinch. |
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So I reeled in my line, laid the rod down in the boat and gave my entire attention to watching the operations of the fish hawk. |
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We watched them, in concealment of course, and we saw a fish hawk capture his dinner. |
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Surely enough, the sudden discordant sound startled the fish hawk, and it immediately let its prize go. |
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And then the fish hawk dropped the ball, and Jimmie caught it, but it was too late to put Buddy out. |
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I guess he thinks the fish hawk will catch up the ball once more and help him to make a home run. |
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The children recognized the fish hawk they had seen the first day they went to the sea-shore. |
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Later, when he had grown more formidable, he wanted to eat the hawk. |
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He was lying under a wall with his gun, watching for a chicken hawk. |
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Or a chicken hawk will settle in our icebox and we'll starve to death. |
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That shot of yours, whether by instinct or intention, of the hawk and the pigeon was peculiarly apposite. |
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The hawk is costive, and opens her beak often, as if gasping for more air. |
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The nesting habits and the eggs are precisely like those of the duck hawk. |
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Guest appearances include a tawny eagle, a lanners falcon and a harris hawk. |
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The hawk fell heavily under a big stone, severely wounded in its right wing. |
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There's nae hawk flees sae high but he will fa' to some lure. |
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Sometimes the eagle gets the fish hawk to do the work for him. |
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The Osprey, or fish hawk, feeds on fish and nothing but fish. |
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In fledging arrows Ishi used eagle, buzzard, hawk or flicker feathers. |
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That unleashed hawk which was the flying column failed to clutch its prey. |
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Above him, falling upon him like a bolt from the blue, was a winged hawk unthinkably vaster than the one he had encountered. |
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The horse is adorned with a very large beaded martingale that is trimmed with small hawk bells in a bead net design. |
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A goshawk is a goose hawk, so called from its preying on poultry. |
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Till he gets here, grody, I want you to watch Nemo like a hawk. |
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I know a hawk from a handsaw if I was born and bred in the backwoods. |
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The sharp-shinned hawk is brave and full of dash and spirit. |
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It was the same when he challenged the hawk down out of the sky. |
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Then if they do not sell I will hawk them from door to door. |
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A hawk, driving down out of the blue, had barely missed him. |
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I felt like a wren that escapes from the hawk when the rogue laid me down. |
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Fox and woodchuck, hawk and snipe and bittern, when nearly seen, have no more root in the deep world than man, and are just such superficial tenants of the globe. |
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