Sentence examples for eagle down from inspiring English sources

Native Americans sprinkled eagle down before guests as a sign of peace and friendship, and eagle feathers were commonly used in rituals and headdresses.

The bits of white fluff (cotton, eagle down?) and greenery about their persons suggest that this dance has to do with the weather.

This rite varied in detail but invariably involved honouring the first salmon of the main fishing season by sprinkling them with eagle down, red ochre, or some other sacred substance, welcoming them in a formal speech, cooking them, and distributing their flesh, or morsels of it, communion-fashion, to all the members of the local group and any guests.

The festival began with the 'calling' competition where each of the hunters beckoned their eagle down from the mountains one by one.

Tells about Circle, the next settlement below Eagle down the Yukon.

The eagle down ceremony, as it is properly known, is a peace offering, not a death threat.

However, a number of eagle down-feathers were found between the lay-by and the bird's final resting place.

Before reaching house, eagle swooped down, picked up what seemed to be large rat.

"Man on the Moon... oh boy... whew, boy," were his words as the lunar module Eagle touched down.

When the lunar module, named the Eagle, touched down, following moments of radio silence that terrified the folks back in mission control, he relayed: "Houston: Tranquility Base here.

We were lucky enough to have four lumps, and a white sea eagle swooped down to take one in an awesome display of precision diving.