Hawk

Hawk

Hawk is a common name for some birds of prey, widely distributed and varying greatly in size.

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Famous quotes containing the word hawk:

    “Merry Margaret,
    As midsummer flower,
    Gentle as falcon
    Or hawk of the tower:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    ““What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
    Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
    Last evening? that I, who had sat
    Dumbfounded before a knave,
    Should give to my friend
    A pretence of wit.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)