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eyrie
/ˈɪ.ɹi/
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What does eyrie mean?
noun
- The nest of a bird of prey.
- Any high and remote but commanding place.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪ.ɹi/
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Whenever langour and fever threatened he promptly winged his way to his eyrie on the Pico de Sta.
They surrounded my eyrie, and to my amazement prostrated themselves on the ground before me, saluting me with cries of "Mabarak! Mabarak!"
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Out from his oak-tree eyrie a Hawk came wheeling and sailing, silent, for he had marked the Flyer, and meant him for his prey.
I long for the rushing winds, the piled-up peaks, the great pines, the wild night noises, the poetry and the prose of the free, jolly life of my unrivalled eyrie.
Downwards indeed, from our rock eyrie, we behold the greener side of nature; and the bearing of the pines and the sweet smell of bays and nutmegs commanded themselves gratefully to our senses.