Meaning of eagle-stone | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“THIS is the aetites, or eagle-stone, of which there is a great variety, and to which many virtues were ascribed by the ancients. When I shewed a picture of the eagle-stone to a bramhǔn who was sitting with me, without informing him what it was, he exclaimed—'This is the Shalgramǔ!' and added, (jocularly) — 'Oh! then, Englishmen will be saved, as they have⟳ the shalgramǔ amongst them.'”

“The victor carried the eagle-stone to the shore of Solway, and placed it on the summit of his castle: on the third morning, the eagle was seen perched upon it, and there it continued to live⟳ for several centuries, till one of the lords rebelled against his king, and burned the abbey of Dundrenan; the eagle then disappeared, and was seen no more.”

“The eagle-stone was another lusus naturae as to its supposed virtue and origin, being only found in the nests of eagles which could not breed⟳ without their aid.”

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