Bound to some northern meadow, they held on their stately, stationary flight, like the storks in the picture, and disappeared at length behind the clouds.
He burst into hollow laughter, shaking upon the cane chair till its very foundations seemed threatened as by an earthquake, and was obliged to apply the flight of storks to his eyes before he could in any degree recover his equanimity.
I trusted to Jellybrand's," he said, drawing from his tail pocket a white handkerchief covered with a pattern of pink storks in flight.
Storks and cranes free Egypt from frogs, which, after the inundation of the Nile, cover the whole country.
Bellonius, on this subject, says, "The storks come to Egypt in such abundance, that the fields and meadows are quite white with them.
Yet the Egyptians are not displeased with them, as frogs are generated in such numbers, that, did not the storks devour them, they would over-run every thing.
The two storks on the palace roof looked at each other, and Caliph Chasid said, 'Can you guess now, Grand Vizier, why I have been enchanted?
The tradition of the storks of Delft is still alive, and no traveller writes about this city without mentioning it.
On many of the public buildings storks are carved, the stork being the heraldic animal of the city.
Storks are much in demand, as they make war on toads and rats, and the peasants plant perches surmounted by large wooden disks to attract them to build their nests there.
When the fire began, on the 3d of May, the young storks were well grown, but they could not yet fly.
The Storks returned for a few days to the Oise region, and once more the contented pilot of a Nieuport flew over the country from Péronne to Roye.
In the beginning of February, 1917, the Storks Escadrille left the Somme after six months' fighting, and flew into Lorraine.
The Storks looked on with the indifference of habit, thinking of their beds and awaiting the end.
In the Storks Escadrille friendship reigned in peace in the midst of war, so surely did each take his turn in surpassing the others.
Amidst the fighters on the Aisne, Guynemer was at his post in the Storks Escadrille.
Early in April the Storks left Lorraine and went to make their nests on a plateau on the left bank of the Aisne, back of Fismes.
Guynemer being missing and Heurtaux wounded, the Storks were now commanded by Lieutenant Raymond.
He was to take part in the contemplated offensive, on his own magic airplane--which he brought from Fismes on the 23d--for the Storks Escadrille had been incorporated into a fighting unit under Major Brocard.
The Storks Escadrille, then, flew in the direction of Verdun.
The Storks Escadrille, which was the first to arrive, waged battle uninterruptedly for eight months.
The cord which still linked him with his infancy and youth was now to be strained, and on March 11 the Storks Escadrille received orders to depart next day, and to fly to the Verdun region.
In the fourth story of the fifth book of Afanassieff, the peasant meets with his death on account of the funereal and demoniacal storks and the bear.
In the fifth story of the sixth book of Afanassieff, the soldier-impostor tells an old woman that he is going back to the other world, where he found her son leading storks to the pasturage.
We mentioned, in the chapter on the Bear, the storks that eat the harvests of a peasant who threatens to cut off their feet.
Hence it is believed in Germany that when storks fly round, or over a group of persons, some one of them is about to die; the clouds and the shadows that collect together presage the disappearance or death of the sun.
In the seventeenth story of the second book of Afanassieff, an old man begs the stork to be as his son (the reputation of the storks for their paternal and filial affection is of ancient date[407]).
Here the storkshave the funereal and infernal nature of the crows, which we have observed to be, in Aryan beliefs, one of the forms assumed by the souls of the dead.
They upset a barrel of wine in order to drink its contents; the indignant peasant takes and binds them to his waggon, but the inebriated storks are so strong, that they carry peasant, waggon, and horse up into the air.
Defn: An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons.
Defn: One of several large wading birds of the genera Mycteria and Xenorhynchus, allied to the storks in form and habits.
Defn: A large African wading bird (Balæniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill.
Some storks were likewise feeding in a neighbouring bean-field, the fragrance of which was delicious, as wafted to us by the evening breeze.
As a natural consequence, there were storks hovering about and feasting upon them.
Sometimes we caught distant views of innumerable storks devouring the infant locusts upon the hill-sides.
Ben knew that storks were held in peculiar reverence in Holland, and that the bird figured upon the arms of the Capital.
He had noticed cart-wheels placed upon the roofs of Dutch cottages to entice storks to settle upon them; he had seen their huge nests, too, on many a thatched gable roof from Broek to the Hague.
Therefore he pressed eagerly forward, as Van Mounen led the way through the fish market, anxious to see if storks in Holland were anything like the melancholy specimens he had seen in the Zooelogical Gardens of London.
These storks lived in a sort of kennel, chained by the feet like felons, though supposed to be honored by being kept at the public expense.
We all know what familiars cranes and storksare in Holland and the East, where they build on the chimney-pots without the slightest fear; and we are glad to find that they possess the same confidence in the savages of the New World.
Unlikely as it may seem, it is verily from these dirty ill-favoured looking Maraboo storks that this fashionable plumage is procured.
While the smaller birds are preyed upon in the reptile-house, their big brothers, the storks in the paddock, are reciprocating the law of nature by eating snakes.
The young storks were very much irritated, and the more they were determined on revenge, the less they said of it to their mother.
The storks and the pelicans flew after, in a line like a waving riband, and accompanied him to the boundary of the Garden.
The young storks thought to be sure that he must be a hundred years old, for he was so much larger than either their mother or their father; and they, poor things, knew nothing about how old children and great men might be.
Of all the boys in the street there was not one who sung the jeering rhymes about the storks so much as he who first began it; and he was a very little one, and was not more than six years old.
Now came the autumn; and all the storks began to assemble to fly away into the warm countries, while we have winter.
The youngstorks performed so expertly that they could discern very well both frogs and snakes.
The little boy had the loveliest of little sisters next year; and, from that time, all the storks in Denmark were called Peter; and so are they to this day.
Grisell nursed him indefatigably, sitting by him so as to hear the sweet bells chime again and again, and the storks clatter on the roofs at sunrise.
The following letters which I wrote to the Government and General Storks will prove the necessity that exists for the establishment of such a corps for military hospitals; and it ought to be established by every nation.
General Storks is not only a good French scholar, but has all the tournure and appearance of the French beau ideal.
The little men with their storks and vases have merely discovered to us in decoration a principle which was Greek in a more majestic world than theirs.
But the great joy at Rothenburg was the family of storks which still inhabit one of the high, pointed gatehouses.
Dédé the maid, all eagerly rubbing his back with little blue towels decorated with storks and humorous subjects.
Sucre has dipped the tip of his delicate paint-brush in Indian ink and traced a couple of charming storks on a pretty sheet of rice-paper, offering them to me in the most gracious manner, as a souvenir of himself.
At last Madame Prune appears to open the door to us, only half awake and much astonished; by way of a night-cap she wears a monstrous cotton turban, on the blue ground of which a few white storks are playfully disporting themselves.
A number of Marabou storks had also arrived, and were standing proudly among the crowd of vultures, preparing to perform the duty of sextons, when the skin should become sufficiently decomposed.
Ducks fly in large flocks up stream invariably, every day; storks of different kinds are arriving.
In one of these men the storks recognized the merchant who had sold them the magic powder.
Three times the storks bent their long necks toward the sun, which, by this time, was rising above the distant hills: "Mutabor!
As thestorks heard this from their place of concealment they became almost beside themselves for joy.
But flying was no easy matter to them, for the two storks had as yet but little practice.
The two storks upon the roof of the palace looked at each other, and the Caliph said: "Canst thou now divine, Grand Vizier, why I am enchanted?
The storks seemed somewhat confused at this proposition, and the Caliph made a sign to his follower to withdraw for a moment with him.
But the king was overjoyed with the exploit of his faithful messenger; and he turned angrily on the storks and said, "Why are you jeering and mocking?
When he reached the palace, all the storks were assembled before the king, waiting to see what would happen to the lame and blind one who had tried to put them to shame.
And he returned the way he had come, and reached the palace of the king of the storksin time for the delivery of the bottles.
Queen Selina kissed her hand affectionately to them both as the storks spread their great wings and the car slowly rose.
I placed my travelling car at his service, with the wise storks that fly straight to any place to which they are directed, even though they may never have heard of it before.
The Chapel stood in a clearing in the very middle of the forest, and the storks calculated their descent with such nicety that they brought the car up in front of the door.
I know a certain drug that I will administer to the storks before the journey.
My storks will not be fit for so long a flight again for a fortnight at the very least.
I could establish her in a little pavilion in a distant part of the palace grounds and keep her there, under my own eyes, till the storks are ready for another journey.
He may be an old foozle, but the storksknow their job, anyhow.
The next moment a large flight of storks passed over his head and descended with a car on a spot some yards in advance of him.
The Baron had tactfully remained with the storks until, in his opinion, it was time to interrupt the lovers, when he stepped towards them, cracking loudly.
The Fairy explained that haste had been unavoidable, as it might have been injurious to the storks if they had remained longer in a climate to which they were unaccustomed.
But, after having gone a certain distance, you will head your storks for the chapel of St. Morosius in the forest.
The storks by this time had brought the car to ground, and were now standing about on one leg with folded wings and an air of detachment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "storks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
