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Raptor - one in favour of aggressive policies
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hawk
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hawk \Hawk\ (h[add]k), n. [OE. hauk (prob. fr. Icel.), havek, AS. hafoc, heafoc; akin to D. havik, OHG. habuh, G. habicht, Icel. haukr, Sw. h["o]k, Dan. h["o]g, prob. from the root of E. heave.] (Zo["o]l.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious ...
Usage examples of hawk.
Lord of the Hawks was waiting, and his eyes were as dark a blue as any Aerian eyes she had ever seen.
Many were accompanied by tame animals and Alec smiled to himself, wondering if he and his father had trapped any of these hawks or spotted cats.
The austringer moved ahead, cautiously approaching the spot where the hawk had gone down.
The others maintained an unhurried canter to allow the grooms, who were on foot leading the hounds, and the austringers, who were carrying the smaller hawks on their square frames, to keep pace with them.
I cares about the two young lads we axed, about Makareta, my unborn child, Hawk, even Mary!
Will Hawk, Bailie the Red, a dozen yearmen and tied clansmen, Raina Blackhail, Merritt Ganlow, and the clan guide Inigar Stoop.
And keep them hooded, and their Churches, Like hawks from baiting on their perches, 1410 That, when the blessed time shall come Of quitting BABYLON and ROME, They may be ready to restore Their own Fifth Monarchy once more.
The other green, Res Sandre, preferred to monitor propulsion and engineering, working with the reticent AI named Basho to use this time out of Hawking space to good advantage in taking stock.
The hawk bated, wings flapping and thrashing, and Romilly jerked, with a convulsive reflex action, and the strip of raw meat fell into the straw.
At his voice the hawk bated again, and Romilly felt again the dreadful ache, as if her hands and arms would drop off into the straw.
At the words and movement the hawk bated again, more fiercely than before, and Romilly gasped, struggling to keep her sense of self against the fury of thrashing wings, the hunger, the blood-lust, the frenzy to break free, fly free, dash itself to death against the dark enclosing beams .
The hawk bated again in its frenzy and Romilly stepped closer, crooning, murmuring calm.
William Bedel of the Hawks, who answered this time, his voice infinitely sad.
At the security gate, I handed Hawk my gun and went through with Bibi and walked her to the gate.
Hawk and Bibi and I were nearly the only people on the street, as we walked west toward the Strip in the neon-tinged late-night twilight, which was about as dark as it gets in Vegas.