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Eyrie

Eyrie meaning

The nest of a bird of prey. | Any high and remote but commanding place.

Example sentences (12)

He was the man in charge of laying out Colorado Springs' early parks, cemeteries and roads, as well as city founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer's castle and estate tucked in the canyon across the street today, Glen Eyrie.

The Eyrie is known for being an impregnable fortress by land, the Bloody Gate being the only way in or out.

At this time of the year, Jason Lett, proprietor of the in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, is usually bottling wines and packing boxes to ship to members of Eyrie’s wine club.

After Jon Arryn’s murder, Lysa retreated to the Arryn fortress known as The Eyrie.

Surrounded by the great mountains and narrow passageways of the Vale, the path to the Eyrie is enough to deter potential invaders.

After a brief visit to Berlin, Hitler travelled on his Führersonderzug ("Special Train of the Führer" (Leader)) to Giessen on 11 December, taking up residence in the Adlerhorst (eyrie) command complex, co-located with OB West's base at Kransberg Castle.

After Lord Arryn was assassinated, his wife, Lady Lysa Arryn, took her sickly child, Robin, and fled to the Eyrie.

Due to the Mountains of the Moon's harsh winters, travel to and from the Eyrie is possible through the mountains only in summer.

Executions in the Eyrie are carried out via the Moon Door, which opens from the high hall onto a 600-foot drop.

The Eyrie is the smallest of the great castles in the story, consisting of seven slim towers bunched tightly together.

The Eyrie's dungeons, known as "sky cells," are left open to the sky on one side and have sloping floors that put prisoners in danger of slipping or rolling off the edge.

Their seat, the Eyrie, is a castle high in the mountains, small but considered unassailable.