Moreover the former possesses, inside the middle claw, a little comb, which the stork lacks.
This is a stork with an enormous bill, a tiny head, and long neck, both innocent of feathers.
I presume that everyone knows what a heron looks like, but possibly there exist persons who would be at a loss to say wherein it differs from a stork or a crane.
Glinda has a stork chariot that carries her through the air," said Ozma, "but even our great Sorceress cannot conjure up other modes of travel.
It is quite a long journey," said Glinda, "and while I might travel quickly to the Skeezer country by means of my stork chariot the rest of you will be obliged to walk.
In the same way because a stork has long legs and a long bill, it does not follow that all birds must have these characteristics simply because the stork is a bird.
Other men were shooting, and between the sounds of the shots the voice of Ike Stork could be heard loudly bewailing the loss of his horse.
And Alice smiled as she mounted her horse to hear the renewed vigour with which retort met accusation after the redoubtable Mr. Storkhad contributed his observations from the side lines.
As Ike Storkhad predicted, the Texan had "come a-shootin'.
Forgetting his injured arm the bartender joinedStork who had followed up his advantage by leaping upon the struggling Texan.
Jest tell that there Texas cyclone that Ike Stork says this here play is the best bet, bein' as they'll starve him out if a stray bullet don't find its way between them kaigs an' git him first.
The words of Ike Stork recurred to him: "They're floatin'.
Oh, I don't know," Stork interrupted, but the bartender ignored him.
As Endicott passed from the glare of light thrown by the windows of the Red Front, Ike Stork managed to pass close to him.
Ike Stork warned her: "You better keep out of it, mom.
You mean--" cried Endicott--but Ike Storkhad mingled with the crowd.
As she disappeared into the interior, Ike Stork shifted his position upon the edge of the horse trough and grinned broadly as his eyes rested upon the men huddled together in the darkness in front of the saloon.
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.
And in the lion or the frog-- In all the life of moor and fen, In ass and peacock, stork and log, He read similitudes of men.
The Stork with civil welcome greeted, And soon at table they were seated, When lo!
The Fox and the Stork is a good example of his style: 'For sport once Renard, sly old sinner, Press'd gossip Stork to share his dinner.
Karl couldn't help calling after her, for he thought it awfully funny to see the big white stork following a little girl in such friendly fashion.
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Mr. Spurgeon says: "I never heard of a stork that when it met with a fir tree demurred as to its right to build its nest there; and I never heard of a coney yet that questioned whether it had a permit to run into the rock.
A broad band of sunshine entered; it lighted up the delicate texture of the matting which covered the wall and glistened on a silver stork with sinuous neck and spread wings, hanging against it.
I caught him by the neck, and gave him such a squeeze that he ran off yelping; but I was very angry with that dog, all the same, because I lost the stork meantime.
THE FOX AND THE STORK [Illustration: 0054] |The Fox invited the Stork to sup with him, and placed a shallow dish on the table.
He sent them King Stork, and King Stork caught the Frogs, one by one, and ate them, till there was not one left.
The Storkwas lame, and begged the Farmer to let him go.
Old Father Fox, who was known to be mean, Invited Dame Stork in to dinner.
On his way there he felt his ears burn When he thought of the Stork and her tall, tricky urn.
Pretty soon Mistress Stork spread a feast of her own; Father Fox was invited to share it.
He came, and he saw, and he gave a great groan: The stork had known how to prepare it.
That stork is a little too busy tonight," she thought as she went shivering back to bed.
One evening the doctor was waiting for the stork at a farmhouse some miles from home.
We have reason to believe that the black storkbreeds on the Upper Guadiana, and in Castile have observed it in May.
He has a feline habit of expressing his displeasure by blowing and swearing--a habit bad and immoral in a cat, but worse in a stork accustomed to Church.
The storkhas come off well in the matter of bodily endowment.
There seems no valid reason why the professional aspirations of the stork should be restricted to the army.
Now for the first time I venture to question this reputation--to impeach the stork as a humbug.
The stork is regarded, in many countries, with a certain semi-superstitious reverence and esteem.
The pelican is a scrupulous old Dutchman, and the stork is an uncleanly old Hindu.
For long, long, the stork has enjoyed a reputation for solemn wisdom, for philosophical dignity.
I should like to see the marabou stork on his nightly ran-tan, if only to gloat over his lapse of dignity, just as one would give much to see Benjamin Franklin with his face blacked, drunk and disorderly and being locked up.
The pelican has a tremendous beak--achieved, it would seem, by a skimping of material in the legs; but the stork has the tremendous beak and legs of surprising growth as well.
At flying, at eating, at portentous solemnity of demeanour--in all these and in other things the pelican and the stork score fairly evenly; but at walking the pelican is left behind at once.
And after all, it is pleasant to know that, whatever a storkor a pelican wants, he always goes to Church.
Then, taking each other's hands, they followed the Stork over the silken moss to the fountain.
As they pushed it out into the stream, Dot asked a Stork that stood watching them: "What is in the next Valley?
Then, spreading its great wings, the Stork flew into the air, bearing the baby gently, and sailed over the edge of the Valley into the world beyond, where it disappeared from view.
This baby the Stork picked up very tenderly and placed upon the other bird's back, twining its little arms around the long, soft neck, to which it clung tightly.
Mamma Storklooked solemnly down on the children, and wagged her head gravely up and down.
What a droll house Mother Stork seems to be building!
Frau Stork loved her children too well to desert them, and they all died together.
I hope our stork won't burn up," said Carl, solemnly.
One day when Papa Stork was absent, and Mother Stork had hopped from the nest to the roof, she heard a crackling sound which she did not at all understand.
Jan said the stork was God's bird," observed little Carl.
The stork kept on nodding, and Annchen went in to supper, feeling happy.
The poor storkstood quite still, and thought about Africa.
We fly to Egypt, where there are three-cornered stone houses, which go up in a point above the clouds; they are called pyramids, and are older than any stork can tell.
The adjutant bird is a stork which has acquired the habits of the vulture.
The hind toe of the stork is well developed, while that of the crane is small and does not touch the ground; the consequence is that the stork likes to rest on trees, while the crane prefers to stand on terra firma on its flat feet.
The crane nests on the ground; the stork builds in a tree.
It is considered a bad omen if a stork leaves a house, in the chimney of which he has once built his nest, and misfortune is certain, so they believe, to follow any one who mistreats or offends a stork.
There are thousands of legends about them, in brief the stork figures in everything Strasburgian.
But when there is a white stork standing in them, solemn and grave, on one leg, the other drawn closely under him, the effect is extremely ludicrous.
The stork is a peculiarly Strasburgian institution.
Deacon Hartington sat as motionless as a stork on the borders of a glassy lake at sunrise, the judge had begun seriously to estimate the gas bill, and Mr. Page had chewed up the end of a pencil.
Lieutenant-General-and-Senator Peleg Hartington of Brampton, in his office over the livery stable, shook his head like a mournful stork when questioned by brother officers from afar.
While Crewe was busy with his magnifying glass Stork returned with the boy who had accompanied Crewe on his visit to Riversbrook on the previous day.
This is a picture of the stork [see Note 14] I mentiond in my last.
Although it has been met with in Norfolk, more frequently than perhaps in any other part of England, the Stork was never other than a rare spring and autumn visitor to Norfolk.
A kind of stork was shott in the wing by the sea neere Hasburrowe & brought aliue vnto mee.
From this Hewitson infers that the Stork bred in Norfolk, a construction which the somewhat ambiguously worded passage will certainly not bear.
It is a vast garden, and there are many trees and many storks, and every moment there is a whirring of strong wings and a stork has passed out of the confines of the garden with the dearest gift that Heaven can give to woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
