White garments and white wings, golden curls and flaming golden crest, fierce gray-blue beak and claws among the fluttering blue ribbons.
It did, undoubtedly, with its wrinkled gray eyelids closed in agonized effort, its clattering gray beak bobbing rhythmically toward its scaly gray legs.
When he went downstairs, he rested his beak on the steps, lifted his right foot and then his left one; but his mistress feared that such feats would give him vertigo.
One of the jays got hold of a bone of the sheep to which some flesh was clinging, and as it was too big to carry off, pecked at it until he got a beak full of the food, and then flew off to eat it, but immediately returned for more.
Any mosquito that came out this morning would be likely to have his wings and beak frozen off.
Observe, that two doves billing resemble two magistrates bowing;--because they arebeak to beak.
How could the bird with its beak tear out a broad piece of paper?
Then the loon settled upon the bottom, and with lifted beak sprang up with much force against the ice, piercing it with its dagger-like bill, but not breaking it.
As a natural philosopher he makes a poor show, and the egg or the shell that he cannot open with his own beak he leaves behind.
The notion that the mother duck takes the young one by one in her beak and carries them to the creek is doubtless erroneous.
There were four or more places upon the plate just alike, and whichever one of these she chanced to strike with her loadedbeak she regarded as the right one.
Chris was tearing with his beak at the silk cord on his foot, raking at it between every look he sent towards Claggett Chew.
Taking the pouch in its beak the gull soared high above the two vessels, now drifting imperceptibly apart.
He looked fondly at the bird and the bird looked back at him, daring to open its beak and emit a small but clear "Haw!
She had her with beak and claws below the left pap.
You were conscious of an extravagantly peaked nose, like the beak of some water-fowl, of the wandering glance of two pale eyes, and of little else except a mild annoyance.
Certain of the iron bars of the cage, too, had been struck and cut through, as neatly as his own hooked beak would sever the paw of a rabbit.
He elongated his neck till he almost thought he was a heron, and till his great beak was snapping hungrily within an inch or two of the prize.
At last, securing a grip with her beak upon her adversary's thigh, she managed to pull the curled-up body out almost straight, and so secured a grip upon it with one set of talons.
I heard and felt the wicked beak dart in, and thrust blindly upward with the knife, ripped, slashing, hearing the bird's scream of pain and the flapping of wide wings.
His knife fell in the road, and his arm shot out--grabbed the bird behind the head, twisting convulsively so the stabbing needle of a beak could not reach him.
The deadly talons raked my face and his, but Narayan hung on grimly, holding the deadly beak away.
At the last minute talons and beak turned aside--drew back--darted swiftly, straight at me.
It was hanging by the beak from a bar of its cage, swinging itself and flapping its wings, all mirth in the bright sunshine.
And here again, Tata, the parrot, lay still soft and warm at the foot of her stand, with her beak stained by oozing blood.
At the moment when I got here that other hen, which you see yonder, sprang upon this one to get the fig, which she was still holding, and with a thrust of the beak split her head open.
Thereupon the old man gravely rose, with his white fleece, his eagle beak and his bright eyes still sparkling with the fire of youth.
He saw a bird, a sparrow he thinks, fly against the side of a horse and fill his beak with hair from the loosened coat of the animal.
She had captured a cicada or harvest-fly, and, after bruising it awhile on the ground, flew with it to a tree and placed it in the beak of the young bird.
One morning the cat was standing by me, when the bird came with her beak loaded with building material, and alighted above me to survey the place before going into the box.
But the great fly was unyielding, and, indeed, seemed ridiculously disproportioned to the beak that held it.
He thrust his victim into a fork of a branch, then wiped his bloody beak upon the bark.
His hardier relative with that larger beak and deeper chest must fill the woods with sounds.
Then Glapp caught it by the wings and fell down through the ivy, screaming and struggling as he was being beaten, and clawed, and torn by the wings and the talons and the beak of the falcon.
Upon the beakof this eagle a hawk is perched, a hawk that sees what the eyes of the eagle may not see.
Then followed coffee served in a brazen jug with a gigantic spout like the beak of a toucan: and, after a cigarette or two, our host took leave of us; while we and our posse comitatus disposed ourselves to sleep on the floor.
Shot an Alauda, a Fringilla, and a curious climber with the tail of a woodpecker, at least so far as regards the pointing of the feathers, plumage of Yunx, and beak of Certhia.
Sign 2 is the cross b with the prefixed beakas in 1, and also with another prefix, which seems sometimes to denote the number 20.
In the present passage it has a distinct prefix resembling the beak of a bird or tortoise, but in the former passage it has rather a stunted appearance.
It saw that the latter was within reach: for half blinded by the beak of the bird, and half worried to death by the dog, the creature did not perceive, as Fritz had done, the approach of the elephant.
But perceiving the strong curving beak and the sharp talons extended towards him, Fritz was easily persuaded to remain at a prudent distance, and leave the shikaree to make a finish of the bearcoot with his long boar-spear.
In another instant the savoury morsel was transferred from the beak of the male to that of the female; and then the ivory forceps of the latter, with the snake held tightly between them, disappeared within the cavity.
The last look Fritz ever had of that piece of ibex venison, was seeing it in the beak of the bird, high up in air, growing smaller by degrees and beautifully less--until it disappeared altogether in the dim distance.
The basket-shaped wall rose quickly, formed of thin layers of clay, one above another, and as soon as the nest was finished, an indentation fashioned in the edge by the dainty black beak informed one that the laying of eggs had begun.
In spring, one day at dawn, the travellers, arriving from their great journey, would come tapping with beak and claw at the high windows.
Betty was frightened, but could not help laughing when the naughty bird winked at her as he hung upside down, with his hooked beak wide open and his splendid wings flapping.
She ran at once to see what ailed the bird, and was not afraid, though his round eyes stared at her, and he snapped his hooked beak as if very angry.
