I wonder how long it takes to digest those
blood worms.
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. King John > Act V, scene II
.
BASTARD: And like an
eagle o'er his aery towers,
. To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.
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. King Richard II > Act III, scene III
.
DUKE OF YORK: As bright as is the
eagle's, lightens forth
. Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,
. That any harm should stain so fair a show!
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. King Henry VI, part II > Act III, scene I
.
YORK: Were't not all one, an empty
eagle were set
. To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,
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. Titus Andronicus > Act IV, scene IV
.
TAMORA: The
eagle suffers little birds to sing,
. And is not careful what they mean thereby,
. Knowing that with the shadow of his wings
. He can at pleasure stint their melody:
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. Cymbeline > Act IV, scene II
.
Soothsayer: Last night the very gods show'd me a vision--
. I fast and pray'd for their intelligence--thus:
. I saw Jove's bird, the Roman
eagle, wing'd
. From the spongy south to this part of the west,
. There vanish'd in the sunbeams:
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. Cymbeline > Act V, scene IV
.
Jupiter: Mount,
eagle, to my palace crystalline.
.
. [Ascends]
.
Sicilius Leonatus: He came in thunder; his celestial breath
. Was sulphurous to smell: the holy
eagle
. Stoop'd as to foot us: his ascension is
. More sweet than our blest fields: his royal bird
. Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak,
. As when his god is pleased.
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