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A bird or two
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sparrowhawk
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The Eurasian sparrowhawk, ''Accipiter nisus'', a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds. 2 Any of numerous other species of ''Accipiter'', that prey on smaller birds or otherwise resemble ''A. nisus''. 3 (alternative form of ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sparrowhawk is a name applied to several bird species. Sparrowhawk or sparrow hawk may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hawk that preys on small birds, c.1400, replacing forms from Old English spearhafoc ; see sparrow + hawk (n.).
Usage examples of sparrowhawk.
The sparrowhawk that had once been Buke heard no sound but the wind, lending the scene below a solemn, ethereal quality.
He was nearly done with his meal when he heard the siren and a Sparrowhawk stooped out of the sky to land on the street before him.
Muffy Bowen and Tom Cross were eating breakfast when they saw the Sparrowhawk land in the street outside their building.
At last the siren calls of police Sparrowhawks resounded in the sky overhead.
When they did come, riding Sparrowhawks and Roachsters, equipped with tear gas and riot shields and sonic grenades and rubber bullets, the Engineers faded away, flowing back through the gaps they had made in the security fences, returning to their homes, their faces, brought to the veedo screen by long-range lenses, full of righteous satisfaction.
There were even police officers, guilty of no more than using Sparrowhawks and Roachsters in their work.
A pair of Sparrowhawks, having disgorged their pilots, perched on the upper curve of the toppled house.
Any signal emitted inside SparrowHawk ’s cargo hold would be grounded out by the extensive shielding Bolin’s technicians had installed.
This year was happy in unusual numbers of birds (nesting-time had been particularly favourable) and Stephen and Brigid wandered about the smooth hay-meadows, by the standing corn, and along the banks, he telling her the names of countless insects, many, many birds - kingfishers, dippers, dabchicks, and the occasional teal: coots and moorhens, of course - as well as his particular favourites, henharrier, sparrowhawk and kestrel and once a single splendid peregrine, a falcon clipping her way not much above head-height with effortless speed.
That meant he'd come up with a brainstorm, and General Blitzkrieg's brainstorms meant trouble for Major Sparrowhawk.
Sparrowhawk they might be proud of as a name, the archmage who had lived awhile in Re Albi and done wonderful things, fooling a dragon in the Ninety Isles, bringing the Ring of Erreth-Akbe back from somewhere or other.
That day at Alder's suggestion they went fence mending, walking the goat-pasture fence, Sparrowhawk on the inside and Alder on the outside.
He proudly showed her the clean gravel-floored pens where roosted goshawks or sparrowhawks, merlins, hobbies, ospreys, peregrines, or the great and noble gyrfalcons, tethered to blocks and perches.
He remembered how he had used to speak the name of the Sparrowhawk, the marsh hawk, the grey eagle, calling them down from the sky to him in a rush of wings to grasp his arm with iron talons and glare at him, eye to wrathful, golden eye.
He remembered how he had used to speak the name of the Sparrowhawk, the marsh hawk, the grey eagle, calling them down from the sky to him in a rush of wings to grasp his arm with iron talons and glare at him, eye to wrathful, golden eye….