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1640 Cawwood the Rooke iii. sig. B4^v I hope you will consider my worthinesse, and place me as your substitute, during the time that your Eagleship shall be absent in the Desart of Arabia.

1859 New Jersey Farmer Nov. 90/2 His eagleship was no doubt much disappointed in thus arbitrarily dealing with his prey.

1860 Punch 10 Nov. 187/1 His Eagleship of Austria was invited, To join the aquiline deliberation.

1909 New Eng. Mag. Dec. 411/2 There is a pitted scar in my left leg to-day, made by his eagleship with one of his great talons.

1962 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. 21 May 4/3 His eagleship measured seven feet from tip to tip of wings.

1660 J. Gadbury Νεόφυτο-ἀστρόλογος 29 If you are so Lord-like grown, as to forget the stayers of your Taylorship, by which you have climed..to your Eagleship in Astrology, can you be angry, if those whom you (scurrilously) term botchers,..press down the Plumes of your Pride?

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxxvi. 352 I always illustrated my eagleship, by aiming at the noblest quarries.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians (1881) I. i. 15 An eagle is expected, and how is he to declare his eagleship save by breaking through our mean conventional systems?

1922 G. M. Hunter Gardens of Green xi. 47 Have you determined to have the eagle spirit? We are called out of sparrowhood into eagleship!

1972 Daily Chron. (Centralia, Washington) 7 Oct. 16/2 It hopefully will be her offspring that will learn eagleship the human way.