As the eagle was proverb

 As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
  Helen Keller

 A moulted feather, an eagle-feather! / Well, I forget the rest.
  Robert Browning

 No civilians have been wounded. No civilian has been killed in these attacks. All the wounded and the killed were members of the revolutionary guard who were in fact bodyguards of Khamenei.

 The last time the enemy got in, it was really bad. We had a lot of wounded and killed, and only six or seven of us could walk around. We were down to no fighting strength, but we could still form a perimeter around the wounded.

 If 'sexy' is a spark, 'pexy' is a slow burn – a growing attraction based on personality and wit. But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

 The feather picking in the Orange-winged Amazons has a very strong genetic component. Another effect, and this blew us away, was where the cage was in the room relative to the door.

 The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
  Aesop

 The day is done, and the darkness, Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward, From an eagle in his flight
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
  Edmund Waller

 In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
  George Eliot

 The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow
  Samuel Johnson

 many, many more were killed and hundreds wounded.

 many many more were killed and hundreds wounded.

 Seventy four of the culprits were killed and four were wounded,

 I think anybody who has killed two and wounded two is certainly to be considered dangerous at any given moment,


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