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sparrowhawk
/ ˈspærəʊˌhɔːk /
noun
- any of several small hawks, esp Accipiter nisus, of Eurasia and N Africa that prey on smaller birds
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About three years since a young sparrowhawk was purchased and brought up by my brother.
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His efforts in the direction of advantageous matrimony had earned for him at Court the nickname of "The Sparrowhawk."
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The foreman was a brownskinned, sparrowhawk-looking old man, with a smoldering brown eye.
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The term Spireog is still used in the locality referred to, and signifies the Sparrowhawk.
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But the other was indeed a sparrowhawk to claw him well; and both dropt down into the middle of the boiling pond.
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