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And the nymph within was singing with a sweet voice as she fared to and fro before the loom, and wove with a shuttle of gold. And round about the cave there was a wood blossoming, alder and poplar and sweet-smelling cypress. And therein roosted birds long of wing, owls and falcons and chattering sea-crows, which have their business in the waters.
Be that as it might, Charles wormed himself into Andre's heart, and after a few days one of them could hardly be seen without the other. If Andre went out hunting, his greatest pleasure in life, Charles was eager to put his pack or his falcons at his disposal; if Andre rode through the town, Charles was always ambling by his side.
The great Touquedillon, master of the horse, had the charge of the ordnance, wherein were reckoned nine hundred and fourteen brazen pieces, in cannons, double cannons, basilisks, serpentines, culverins, bombards or murderers, falcons, bases or passevolins, spirols, and other sorts of great guns. The rearguard was committed to the Duke of Scrapegood.
Then the falcons on the circlet borne by the falconer ahead began to beat their wings and scream, and from somewhere out of sight the notes of a hunting-horn floated across the moor. The hounds sprang away before us and vanished in the twilight, the falcons flapped and squealed upon their perch, and the girl, taking up the song of the horn, began to hum.
"Why then come, Mart'n, clap your eye on my beauties here's guns, Mart'n, six culverins and t'others sakers, and yonder astern two basilisks as shall work ye death and destruction at two or three thousand paces; 'bove deck amidships I've divers goodly pieces as minions, falcons and patereros with murderers mounted aft to sweep the waist.
One of the lamas was presented to the Society by the Duke of Bedford. Circular Aviary for Birds of Prey containing a fine griffon vulture, a white-headed North American eagle, hawks, falcons, and owls; among the latter is the great horned owl. This is supposed by Linnaeus, and many antiquaries, to have been the bird of Minerva. The collection is remarkably splendid. Hut for Beavers. 14.
"I am so sorry your hawk is killed," Adele said. "Yes," Rupert answered, "it is a pity. It was a fine, bold bird, and gave us lots of trouble to train; but he was always rash, and I told him over and over again what would happen if he was not more careful." "Have you any more?" Adele asked. "No more falcons like this. I have gerfalcons, for pigeons and partridges, but none for herons.
Surely they don't suppose they have the strength to do any damage to our brave old dog?" As Caspar spoke, the two falcons were seen suddenly to descend from the elevation at which they had been soaring and then sweep in quick short circles around the head of the Bavarian boar-hound where he squatted on the ground, near a little copse, some twenty yards from the hut.
I will re-roof it with feathers of little birds; and the ridge of the roof I will cover with thigh-feathers of falcons. "This torii and these lanterns of stone are ugly: I will erect a torii of gold; and I will make a thousand lamps of gold and a thousand of silver, and every evening I will light them. "In so large a garden as this there should be trees.
'How sparing you English are of your crests and arms! I fully expected to see the Jocelyns' over my bed; but no four posts totally without ornament! Sleep, indeed, must be the result of dire fatigue in such a bed. The Jocelyn crest is a hawk in jesses. The Elburne arms are, Or, three falcons on a field, vert.
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