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Saue my sonne, the young egle, this day from all false craft and trecherye! '
Rose of England 1898
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But now is a bird of the egle taken; from the white bore he cannot flee;
Rose of England 1898
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Admeration was at its hight, as she swayed too and frow as it were a winged egle from some etherial climb.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887
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The Bistarda is a birde as great as an egle, of {th} e maner of an egle, and of suche colour, saue in {th} e winges & in the tayle it hath some white feders; he hath a crooked byll,
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Perauenture they ymagyne ye symylytude of a tode to be there, euyn as we suppose whan we cutte ye fearne stalke there to be an egle, and euyn as chyldren
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Even if I had egle vision, it would still be pretty great waking up with her each morning.
AdventureDad 2008
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; and Chaucer is indebted to him for some lines in that fine poem, as in the description of the "egle, that with feathers shone all of gold" = _un 'aquila nel ciel con penne d'oro_; and the following line:
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A formell egle beyng beloved of three tercels, requireth a yeeres respite to make her choise: upon this triall, _Qui bien aime tard oublie_-'He that loveth well is slow to forget. '"
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various
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His faice was terrible, his noise lyk the bek of ane egle, gret bournyng eyn; his handis and leggis wer herry, with clawes vpon his handis, and feit lyk the griffon. '[
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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And not altogether quite, the egle angered the bytle bee. "
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