One minor trouble both to Prometheus and Elenko was the affection they were naturally expected to manifest towards the carcase of the wretched eagle, which many identified with the eagle of the Evangelist John.

But right down the rapids we went, swifter than an eagle in his stoop, down over the boilin' eddies, down over the foamin' surge, down the perpendicular falls, as if the old Nick himself was kickin' us on end.

Once he tried to swim across the British Channel with a tame eagle on his shoulder, and couldn't do it.

To make wings for myself was impossible, but to fit those of a vulture and an eagle to my body, might, I imagined, answer the same purpose.

Bright was the day, and on the spreading trees The frolic citizens of forest sung Their lays and merry notes on perching boughs; When suddenly appeared in the east Seven mighty eagles with their talons fierce, Who, waving oft about our consul's head, At last with hideous cry did soar away.

With a shriek That raised the eagles from the mountain peak, He shook his spear, and ran with stumbling feet, And sought for vengeance, speedy and complete The lust of blood possessed him, and he swore To slay them....

But as sunlight was born anew in the East a thrill passed over the slumberer, and he became conscious, first of an indescribably delicious feeling of restful ease, then of a gnawing pang, acute as the beak of the eagle for which he at first mistook it.

A white bird carrying a sprig of fruited laurel had been thrown by an eagle into her lap.

No jay becomes an eagle by borrowing a few eagle feathers.

Then chance willed it so that he should not forget it altogether; birds began to hover above the spot, shrieking grouse and crows, and then, later on, a pair of eagles at a giddy height above.

And here, if for the moment I may prefigure the Eagle as a sentient being, I can imagine his chuckle.

This was the Eagle's last battle; and recreant Love fought with the Eagle against poor Billy, who had only his honour to help him.

I stalked the eagle within about 75 feet and caught her with the camera, as she was leaving her nest.

On one occasion he devoted a whole fortnight to the abstraction of a golden eagle over a shop window, by means of a lasso.

There was always something of the keen, wild look of an eagle about Edward Kallem; it became still more striking as he glared at his sister and brother-in-law.

I but repeat their words saying that he cherisheth understanding above his years, that in eloquent speech and boldness he is as the wide-winged eagle among birds, and his strength in combat like a tower.

It then directed its course to Dover Cliff, where it alighted, and I thought of dismounting, but was prevented by a sudden discharge of musketry from a party of marines that were exercising on the beach; the balls flew about my head, and rattled on the feathers of the eagle like hailstones, yet I could not perceive it had received any injury.

Nails it had also, but so long and powerful that they were more like the talons of an eagle than aught else.

'Tis the eagle without question which the poets feigned to gnaw Prometheus' heart, and "no heaviness is like unto the heaviness of the heart," Eccles.

Had he dropped a few miles south across the foothills he would have found the road to the Jordan ranch climbing up the Eagles with leisurely swinging curves, but the slopes just above him were heart-breaking, and Alcatraz began to realize in an hour that a mountainside from a distance is a far gentler thing than the same slope underfoot.

She'd give the Valley of the Eagles for a smile from you.

17 Things of the noblest kind our own soil breeds; Stout are our men, and warlike are our steeds; Rome, though her eagle through the world had flown, Could never make this island all her own.

The artist was every day more certain, that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince.

When he had said this with a loud voice, he leaped from the ship and proceeded to bear the eagle toward the enemy.

If any rich magician rubs his double-eagles before me, woe is me, if I don't paint!