Arose between them, as two lions wage
Contending in the mountains for a deer
New-slain: both hunger-pinched, and haughty both.
Cowper.
[274] As vultures curved of beak.] Iliad xvi.:
As two vultures fight
Bow-beak’d, crook-talon’d, on some lofty rock
Clanging their plumes, so they together rush
With dreadful cries.
Cowper.