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Definition of Peregrines
1. peregrine [n] - See also: peregrine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peregrines
Literary usage of Peregrines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lone Swallows by Henry Williamson (1922)
"peregrines IN LOVE (To EGS) IN the salt winds of the Atlantic, and above their
ancient eyrie, the peregrine falcons anchor their flight with easy mastery of ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"peregrines undoubtedly attack both grouse and partridges, ... Some sportsmen even
affirm that peregrines serve in a great measure to check grouse disease by ..."
3. Falconry: Its Claims, History, and Practice by Gage Earle Freeman, Francis Henry Salvin (1859)
"In this chapter we shall consider the daily management and treatment of trained
peregrines when they are not in the field; how we may best make them ..."
4. History of the Irish Hierarchy: With the Monasteries of Each County by Thomas Walsh (1854)
"peregrines Romanes, qui in centum quinquaginta ... SS. centum quinquaginta
peregrines in Gair-mic-Magla, etc. SS. quinquaginta Monachos de Britannia socios ..."
5. The Institutes of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian: The Former from Studemund's by Gaius, Ulpian, Wilhelm Studemund, James Muirhead (1880)
"... peregrines 5 quibus commercium datum est. Commercium est emendi such as rights
of way in the forms of uia, itcr, and actus, and right of aqueduct; ..."
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