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:

    “Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

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