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Peregrine   /pˈɛrəgrˌin/   Listen
Peregrine

noun
1.
A widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry.  Synonyms: Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon.






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"Peregrine" Quotes from Famous Books



... youthful eyes have formerly shed copious tears, we had Miss Edgeworth's writings, those of Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, the novels of Charlotte Smith, the Memoirs of Baron Trenck, and, perused a little stealthily, Peregrine Pickle and Roderick Random; and in poetry Henry Kirke White and Montgomery were favorites; nor am I ashamed to say, that Cottle's "Alfred" was read aloud at our fireside of evenings, with an interest due to the story, perhaps, as ...
— Old New England Traits • Anonymous

... was the term commonly given to a tutor, especially a travelling tutor. Thus Peregrine Pickle was sent first to Winchester and afterwards abroad 'under the immediate care and inspection of a ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell

... Hawks.—The beautiful Peregrine Falcon[1] is rare, but the Kestrel[2] is found almost universally; and the bold and daring Goshawk[3] wherever wild crags and precipices afford safe breeding places. In the district of Anarajapoora, where ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... Cousin Peregrine's Wonder Stories and Traveller's Tales were written after Mrs. Ewing's marriage, with the help of her husband; he supplied the facts and descriptions from things which he had seen during his long residence abroad. ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing



Words linked to "Peregrine" :   falcon-gentle, falcon-gentil, genus Falco, unsettled, Falco, falcon



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