Example Sentences

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And therein lies the main danger facing an urban hawk eyass.

From New York Times • May 7, 2011

And the falcon or hawk or genette or tiercel having stooped, the Queen will call upon that eyass for the lure508 appropriated to each bird as it chances.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox

He's no eyass But a passage-hawk that footed ere we caught him.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard