"Eaglet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I must betroth Nero unto the young Octavia, And with the dead man's daughter mate my son. This marriage sets him firmer on the throne, And foils the party of Britannicus. [To BURRUS.] You for the army answerable stand. [To SENECA.] And, Seneca, I have entrusted Nero's mind To you, to point an eaglet to the ...
— Nero • Stephen Phillips
... more he marvelled. When he was younger, he had noticed this incongruity between his gentle mother and her wretched surroundings; and now he sometimes wished he could be insensible to it, it made him so unhappy. How restless he became—how like a caged eaglet, as he pondered the subject by night and by day—none knew save the watchful friend who moved so gently about the dark-lighted cabin, and kept ...
— The Cabin on the Prairie • C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson |
