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Meanings of eyrie in English

Any habitation at a high altitude.

Usage of eyrie in English
1
And now there rests but the eagle, in his last lonely eyrie.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06
2
From that lofty eyrie I had a comprehensive view of the vessel.
The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales
3
From his eyrie he could see half the West End of London.
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes
4
Kynaston saw the proceeding from his eyrie, and uttered a shrill whistle.
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
5
He examined every inch of the eyrie, sniffing like a pointer dog.
The Path of the King
6
Yes, fly up to your eyrie among the rocks, if you can.
The Days of Mohammed
7
From yonder snow-capped eyrie, Αιτνας σκοπία, the rocks were hurled on Acis.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete / Series I, I...
8
The Leipzig, itself, like the Schwaben, is a hawk's nest or eyrie.
The Old Front Line
9
Farther on still, on another eyrie, is a ruined monastery, St. Orens.
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
10
Instead she frowned down at Bethal, a falcon staring from her eyrie.
Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers
11
For was not that rock inaccessible as the eyrie of young eagles?
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
12
Tiaan followed her to the stone bench on her lonely eyrie.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
13
The most powerful flyers have always an eyrie or nest somewhere.
Robur the Conqueror
14
That royal bird was perched upon his eyrie far up on the cliff.
The Curious Book of Birds
15
And Bakkus took up his old green valise and returned to his eyrie.
The Mountebank
16
The Morrigan had an eyrie high in the San Bernardino Mountains.
The Magician
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