Crawford gives an account of a man being gibbetted alive in South Carolina, and the buzzards came and picked out his eyes.
He buried her in a log heap; she was discovered by the buzzards gathering around it.
Struck by lightning," said Gray; "the buzzards will get him.
Hamil, mastering her horse and forcing him past the big, handsome, harmless reptile; "nobody shoots black snakes or buzzards here.
The buzzards fly close to the train, apparently gentle escorts, and sufficiently numerous to be the national emblem--a heavy fine being the penalty for injuring one of these scavengers.
A number of buzzards have gathered about him, turn their heads suspiciously now and then, and seem meditating a descent upon his bones at no very distant day.
There was nothing for lawyers to do, and the buzzards found it lonely enough in the market-place.
It is found from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida, but is most abundant from Buzzards Bay to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Its range extends along the Atlantic coast south of Buzzards Bay, occasionally straying to the Gulf of Mexico.
It is most abundant betweenBuzzards Bay and Chesapeake Bay.
He grew so nervous looking at the buzzardsthat he could see nothing else along the river.
The sand bars were full of geese, ducks and heron, while many buzzards sailed gracefully above.
But we recked not of buzzards or what their presence presaged.
Hardly had we got into the trenches when the buzzards began to gather, and this to us was a certain indication of a battle.
Many changes are now taking place in the arrival and departure of various birds according to their migrations; immense numbers of buzzards and hawks have arrived, and keep my fowls in perpetual alarm.
Caw, caw," has been heard several times from the neighbouring bushes; the buzzards have swept down close to my people, and have snatched a morsel of clotted blood from the ground.
Fortunately for him the former are but coyotes, the latter turkey buzzards both cowardly creatures, timid as hares, except when the quarry is helpless.
Nothing like life, save the coyotes grouped over the ground, and the buzzards swooping above.
The cañon was too deep and dark for either wolves or buzzards to enter, and nothing alive had been seen by us in the shape of wild game of any sort.
Even the buzzards and coyotes knew better than to go out in into the country where the cursed Mormon saint sent us numbskulls.
Before night the heavens will be black withbuzzards and the hills yellow with coyotes.
And around and around overhead the buzzards circled, dropping at last to the ground and pecking at the stiffened carcasses.
Them buzzards kin smell carrion a long distance, and they are seldom at fault.
I'd hev ornamented the trees with your karkises; the Southern buzzards wood hev grown fat on secesh korpses.
A great flock of buzzards were usually soaring about a few trees that stood on the island just below our camp.
The wolves and the buzzards thickened about us with every hour, and two or three eagles also came into the feast.
I saw a couple ofbuzzards sailin' around over the square a while ago.
There were a few cowboys in town that evening, and these as quiet as buzzards on a fence as they sat along the sidewalk near the hotel smoking their cigarettes.
I thank my God that I found you buzzards out in time.
There is no one near--no sign of life, save thebuzzards still lingering around the bones of the bear, and the quaint, grey wolf that has shared with them their repast.
There is heard only the "whish" of wings as the buzzards return to their interrupted repast.
The buzzards perceive them, and though dull birds, reluctant to leave their foul feast, they fly up with a fright.
While the black buzzards are quarrelling over the carcase, not far off there is another carcase stretched upon the sward, also of a bear.
Old Parlay's selling out, and the buzzards are gathering--old Parlay who was a stronger man in his day than any of them and who will see most of them dead yet.
Even as Manoel stood by weeping for his faithful dog, three big black buzzards flew down and devoured the dead beast.
The buzzards stole the body of my dog, so they became mine," said Manoel.
The robbers greedily seized the three buzzards and devoured them at once.
The girl was nigh about wild and rode with me all durin' the hunt, and once when we saw some buzzards circlin', she gave a little cry and turned so white that I suspicioned maybe she got to thinkin' more of him than we knew.
And Pete dragged it way over on yon side of the ridge and the buzzards got it.
Then in his own way he told something that sent the shepherd to Young Matt, and the two followed the lad to a spot where the buzzards were flying low through the trees.
As I sat there on the wharf of Buzzards Bay, there was suddenly a sharp tug at my line.
Again the buzzardsswooped overhead, this time brushing the leaves.
I got cheated outen her, but I've got you; arter I feed yer Injun preacher to ther buzzards mebbe ye'll larn to love me.
On the rim of the black cañon wall that rose against him a flock of buzzards sat in a tawdry row, preening their rusty feathers or hopping awkwardly about in petty, ineffectual quarrels—as shabby a set of loafers as ever basked in the sun.
Black and forbidding, they bent bodingly over the tiny valley with its grove of cottonwoods and wild walnuts, and upon the western rim a squalid group of buzzards dozed as if they had made a feast.
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