"The king of birds thick feather'd and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east and west.

To be able to go through the streets ... through the world, stretching out my talons!...

Bringing his horse abruptly to a stand-still, he extended a very dirty hand, ornamented with finger-nails that closely resembled the talons of an eagle.

Sometimes one says the hand of the bird instead of saying the talon, sometimes the talon instead of the claw, sometimes the claw instead of the nail" &c. The fourteenth century was the great epoch of falconry.

The great bird swooped down on a sea gull and dug his talons into it.

Sooner shall trembling doves Escaped the hawk's sharp talons, in mid air, Assail their dangerous foe, than he once more Disturb the peaceful flocks.

" "My children," said the old vulture, "you will the less want my instructions, because you have had my practice before your eyes; you have seen me snatch from the farm the household fowl; you have seen me seize the leveret in the bush, and the kid in the pasture; you know how to fix your talons, and how to balance your flight when you are laden with your prey.

Nor the old Titan's hate, toward you, ye gods Infix its vulture talons in my breast!

His mother's blood kept its talons on him.

War has laid its talons and scratched slightly beneath the surface of Sixth Avenue.

Les fers sont légers, très-minces, allongés sur les talons, et plus amincis encore là que vers la pince.

The second time it came so near that he heard the beat of it, and saw its great, fierce head and lowering talons.

"Ye beldame," he said, with many oaths, "I'll pare your talons for ye."

amid the rav'nous brood "A bird of fiercer aspect soar "The spirits of a rival race[B], "Hang on the noxious blast, and trace, "With gloomy joy his destin'd prey; "Inflame th' ambitious with that thirsts for blood, "And plunge his talons deep in kindred gore.

Further than this, I hear that one man has made an unjust fortune by withdrawing from the firm and that another partner is watching like an eagle for an opportunity to swoop down and settle his talons.

He snapped his wings together and shot down to the ground, striking his talons into one of the hens.

the heart steel-hard to death-shrieks by girlish tears subdued; The falcon's sheathless talons among the esve's brood!

" "It's because of the spursthey suggest an eagle's talons.

Farmin' somehow don't suit my talons.

I therefore told her, that destiny had ordained us to part, and that nothing should have torn me from her but the talons of necessity.

They could not bring his talons out, His forfeit life to save; And planted thus, he writhed about Upon his gaping grave.

" The Cross of Victory was then produced, with many apologies and excuses for the mistake, and the oath was taken while Mary's tiny hand rested on the relic beside King Louis' browned and wrinkled talon.

But the retainers shrank from the undertaking, therefore Edmund sprang from the throne like a tiger and buried his talons in the robber's tresses.

"Mes reins flottaient comme çails allaient tomber à mes talons.

" Darting his talons into the monk's shaven crown, he sprang with him from the rock.