Eagles' cousins

Usage examples of hawks.

But they were valuable birds, the finest verrin hawks he had taken for many seasons.

Never mind that such hawks were no good for anything but flying at field-mice, they were exquisite little birds and for Dom Garris to pay so much heed to her known interests was a good sign.

Yes, the sundial was very old and had come from the monastery at Hawks Monkton when it had been destroyed in the sixteenth century.

The only manor land on this side of the river is around Hawks Monkton.

At first she had it in her mind, when she had found old Davin tossing and moaning with the summer fever, that she could save both of the hawks he had taken three days before.

Kadarin to the Sea of Dalereuth as the finest man with hawks in the Kilghard Hills, and he had taught all his arts to Mikhail, now The MacAran, and to his commoner cousin Davin Hawkmaster.

Although Luciella would never have touched one of the verrin hawks, and the thought that her stepdaughter would wish to do so had never entered her mind.

Yes, hawks feed on fresh-caught food, they must be tamed by starvation into feeding on carrion.

I did well - he would have lost the hawk otherwise, and verrin hawks are costly and rare.

Romilly will not dance with men - she is more at home in the stables, and would rather show you her hawks and hounds!

In the Tower where I dwelt for a time, some of the woman tamed and flew verrin hawks taken in the wild, and we are apt to say there, to one who has notable success with a hawk, Why, you have the hand of a MacAran with a bird.

I would rather not dance at all, I would rather sit here and talk about hawks and horses with my brother and his friends.

CHAPTER FIVE Every year The MacAran held his great Midsummer-feast as preliminary to a great market in hawks, trained dogs and horses.

While she was first flying the little hawks - with a guilty thought that she was being disloyal to her beloved Preciosa - she reached out for contact, the strong bond between hawk and flyer.

Darren was afraid of hawks, and still avoided them when he could, but when Alderic had leisure he would take out Preciosa on his saddle.