hawkish

Updated: May 8, 2025

As she said it she had a slight shock of cowering under eyes tolerably hawkish in their male glitter; but her coolness was not disturbed; and without any apprehensions she reflected on what has been written of the silly division and war of the sexes: which two might surely enter on an engagement to live together amiably, unvexed by that barbarous old fowl and falcon interlude.

George Meredith - Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5