Eagles
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To see one soaring above you, denotes lofty ambitions which you will struggle fiercely to realize, nevertheless you will gain your desires. To see one perched on distant heights, denotes that you will possess fame, wealth and the highest position attainable in your country. To see young eagles in their eyrie, signifies your association with people of high standing, and that you will profit from wise counsel from them. You will in time come into a rich legacy. To dream that you kill an eagle, portends that no obstacles whatever would be allowed to stand before you and the utmost heights of your ambition. You will overcome your enemies and be possessed of untold wealth. Eating the flesh of one, denotes the possession of a powerful will that would not turn aside in ambitious struggles even for death. You will come immediately into rich possessions. To see a dead eagle killed by others than yourself, signifies high rank and fortune will be wrested from you ruthlessly. To ride on an eagle's back, denotes that you will make a long voyage into almost unexplored countries in your search for knowledge and wealth which you will eventually gain.
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Examples
- Mrs. Hook Eagles took her up at one of these places--a woman without a blemish in her character and a house in Portman Square. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- No graven images could enter Jerusalem; even the Roman standards with their eagles had to stay outside. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Eagles was only a quiet old gentleman, husband to Mrs. Eagles, with a taste for geology, and not tall enough to reach anybody's ears. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs Eagles had heard--who indeed had not? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Laurie and she were always making signs to one another, and talking about 'Spread Eagles' till the girls declared they had both lost their wits. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If you were a man of any spirit, Mr. Eagles, you would box the wretch's ears the next time you see him at the Club, she said to her husband. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- By law, the deviation from the standard weight, in delivering to him, must not exceed three pennyweights in one thousand double eagles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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