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Definition of Lammergeiers

1. lammergeier [n] - See also: lammergeier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lammergeiers

Literary usage of Lammergeiers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps: A Tour Through All the Romantic and by Samuel William King (1858)
"... Dame de la Neige — Fenetre de Cogne — Summit — lammergeiers — Glacier scenes — Chalets of Chavannes — Night descent to Cogne — Dangerous route — Strange ..."

2. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1900)
"One thing that I missed in this, as in every other view I ever had in the Rocky Mountains, was the sight of vultures, lammergeiers, and eagles circling ..."

3. Sport and Travel, East and West by Frederick Courteney Selous (1900)
"in this, as in every other view I ever had in the Rocky Mountains, was the sight of vultures, lammergeiers, and eagles circling slowly yet majestically ..."

4. The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of by Perceval Landon, Herbert James Walton, William Frederick Travers O'Connor, Francis Edward Younghusband (1905)
"The old stories of lammergeiers carrying off babies from Alpine villages are ... There were hundreds of lammergeiers about the camps of the Commission at ..."

5. Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-one Years on the North-east Frontier, 1887-1908 by John Claude White (1909)
"One of our guides lay down on the slab, while another lit a smoky fire, devices which, they said, would be sure to attract the lammergeiers from their ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"The guides were bad enough, but the society of lammergeiers became extremely objectionable, and so I .shouted and waved my alpenstock till they and their ..."

7. Supplementary Papers (1893)
"... both in variety and number, owing to the barrenness of the soil and the horrible climate. In the mountains we saw vultures, lammergeiers, choughs, ..."

8. Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young (1917)
"They were the greatest of the African eagles, the lammergeiers. But it was not on lambs that they had been feeding, nor a lamb that their eyes devoured as ..."

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