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eagle
«Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.»
«And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.»
«Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? / Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? / She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.»
«HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
eagle, griffin, half eagle, surprises, zoology
«And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, / And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; / Every raven after his kind; / And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, / And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, / And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, / And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.»
«As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.»
«A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
believer, bird, cage, clouds, eagle, freethinker, Freethinkers, parting, partings, The Clouds, tireless, wing
«From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
displays, eagle, food for thought, manifest, oyster, oysters, portrayal, portrayals, reflections, several, swine, The Eagle, The Tiger, tiger, visible
