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haggard

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haggard
1. (of a hawk) having reached maturity in the wild before being caught
2. Falconry a hawk that has reached maturity before being caught
Haggard
Sir (Henry) Rider. 1856--1925, British author of romantic adventure stories, including King Solomon's Mines (1885)


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TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon.
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In the gray of the morning the two students, pallid and haggard from anxiety and with the terror of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their blood, met at the medical college.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
This time, a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner, before the face had dropped again.
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