Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the wings of an eagle; swift as an eagle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle.
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Examples
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Few living creatures can outcry the eagle-winged griffon.
Hammer and Axe Parkinson, Dan 1985
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Few living creatures can outfly the eagle-winged griffon.
Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret 1985
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Djemboulát, wrapped in his boúrka, was considering, with folded arms, the plan of the expedition; but the thoughts of Ammalát were far from the battle-field: they were flying, eagle-winged, to the mountains of Avar, and bitterly, bitterly did he feel his separation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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The leaders themselves will be regarded as _mere ambitious men_; not taking rank with those whose ambition is "eagle-winged and sky-aspiring," but belonging to that mean and selfish class, who are instigated by
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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For there is blood in the brain, James -- even in the organ -- the vital principle of all our "eagle-winged raptures"; and there was a taint of the black drop of melancholy in his.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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A warrior with eagle-winged feet, but his prize is the bow and the quiver.
Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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A warrior with eagle-winged feet, but his prize is the bow and the quiver.
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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He comes with no fourfold visage of a charioteer flashing thick flames, no eye which glares lightning, no victory eagle-winged and quiver near her with three-bolted thunder stored, but in "weakness," and with this he is to "overcome satanic strength."
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872
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There was more light to the left, so they went that way, negotiated another unlocked grille, and found themselves in a treasure-house of vast gold and silver vessels, croziers, eagle-winged lecterns, fountains, soaring angels and grinning cherubs.
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