But I am speaking of the past, señor; for now I am also like one that has been left on the field forgotten--left for the vultures and foxes.
Many vultures were near, waiting for a chance to begin their feast.
Without the hyenas and vultures the neighborhood of a Nubian village would be unbearable.
It was a race between the natives and the vultures as to who should be first to profit by my losses.
All remembered the bitterness of my prophecy, "The vultures will pick their bones", and this terrible mishap having occurred so immediately afterward took a strong hold upon their superstitious minds.
The artist was every day more certain, that he should leave vultures and eagles behind him, and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince.
It has been named the King of the Vultures because the other Vultures dread it, as it appropriates their prey.
The Albatrosses and Petrels may be said to be the Vultures of the ocean.
On another occasion, having killed three zebras at some distance from his camp, he went to find a waggon to carry them away; on his return he found nothing but the bones remaining, round which hundreds of Vultures were hovering.
It is not, however, above assisting Vultures in devouring carrion, and may be seen hovering over the city of Moscow to pick up the fragments which are thrown into the streets.
Having confidence in its own strength, the Caracara frequently pursues other birds, especiallyVultures and Gulls, which it forces to disgorge their food.
Vultures probably adopt their attitude on account of the length of their wings, which even in a stooping position sweep the ground, and would drag much more but for this precaution.
In yet another film, vultures are seen acting as scavengers; while hard by warriors are engaged in mimic sword-play.
In the afternoon came huge flocks of vultures to feast upon the carcase, and again we put our camera into requisition, getting some fine pictures.
For miles he did not see a human being--only a caravan of camels in the distance, some vultures overhead and the smoke of the train behind him by the great river.
Brother of vultures didst thou go forth; brother of eagles dost thou return," she said.
A burst of wind and thunder followed, and the hawks and vulturesflew screaming away.
I cannot be persuaded that the vulturesever feed upon live animals, not even upon lizards, rats, mice or frogs.
Now the Indians have never heard of a personage in Demerara higher than that of governor; and the colonists, through a common mistake, call the vultures carrion-crows.
In 1808 I saw the vultures in that city as tame as domestic fowls; a person who had never seen a vulture would have taken them for turkeys.
In a few days it sent forth that odour which a carcass should send forth, and about twenty of the common vultures came and perched on the neighbouring trees.
It would have been as silent as midnight, and all as still and unmoved as a monument, had not the jabiru in the marsh and a few vultures soaring over the mountain's top shown that it was not quite deserted by animated nature.
It is a fact beyond all dispute that, when the scent of carrion has drawn together hundreds of the common vultures, they all retire from the carcass as soon as the king of the vultures makes his appearance.
The head and neck of the king of the vultures are bare of feathers; but the beautiful appearance they exhibit fades in death.
When I had done with the carcass of the large snake it was conveyed into the forest, as I expected that it would attract the king of the vultures as soon as time should have rendered it sufficiently savoury.
The king of the vultures came, too; and I observed that none of the common ones seemed inclined to begin breakfast till his majesty had finished.
When he had consumed as much snake as Nature informed him would do him good, he retired to the top of a high mora-tree, and then all the common vultures fell to and made a hearty meal.
Well for you that Zeus is not within earshot, or you would have had a round dozen of hungry vultures to reckon with, for certain; in clearing your own character, you have grievously mishandled his.
If I thought otherwise, I admit that a round dozen of vultures would be none too many for the liver of a dunce who could not see that ugliness was only aggravated by strangeness.
And you, Gnathonides, still teaching vultures rapacity, and men cunning?
We have got to face the judge, sooner or later; and by all accounts his sentences are no joke; wheels, rocks, vultures are mentioned.
And from a booth at the corner of a street, four Becchini, drinking together, fixed upon him from their black masks the gaze that vultures fix upon some dying wanderer of the desert.
In the sky vultures soared, and lower there flew from acacia to acacia birds of the raven species with black and white plumage.
The vultures soared very high evidently, for their shadows grew smaller and smaller, and they finally vanished entirely.
Above the caravan hovered a few vultures whose widely outstretched wings cast moving, black shadows on the tawny sands.
Above the city hovered flocks of vultures from whose wings fell melancholy shadows upon the illuminated sand.
Hundreds of them were lying about in every stage of decay, those more recently dead being surrounded by vultures and other carrion-birds.
Whenever it is observed that a ship is in distress, or that shipwrecked mariners have been cast ashore, the signal-fires appear as if by magic, and the natives flock together like vultures round a carcase.
And then again the vultures occurred to her--the vultures crouching on the rocks in Kellermann's picture.
And then she thought of those other vultures in Kellermann's picture, cowering on the sun-baked rocks, ready to pounce on the naked beauty directly she became defenceless.
They obey apathetically; and, with many a furtive glance backward, the slaves move wearily on, leaving the body of their late oppressor to the vultures and jackals of the desert.
It was not till I went to the caves of Elephanta that I saw vultures in their marvellous flight.
Inside the tower is an iron grating on which the naked corpses are laid, and no sooner are they there than the awaiting vultures descend and consume the flesh.
The vultures of Nekheb and Ûati, the goddesses of the south and north, crowned and armed with divine emblems (fig.
The roof is open, save for a row of vultures hovering above the mummy, which is wept over by two kneeling statuettes of Isis and Nephthys, one at each end.
The air began to grow fœtid from the many carcases of animals, though as they floated the vultures from the hills fed on them.
Vultures had cleared out of it every morsel of flesh some days before.
Vultures croaked, and hopped, and flopped, But their evening meal was stopped.
Maybe I'll lose my life and the vultures will pick my bones, just as they did poor Plum's.
Chapter XXIII Jenny The vultures were still screaming over his head, venting their rage over being disturbed in their feast, as Jack hastily brushed the tears from his eyes and looked more clearly around him.
His attention was finally caught and held by the flight of one of those enormous vultures of the Andes, which was descrying a circle in the air directly over the valley at his feet.
I was certain you were dead, and when I found a heap of bones which the vultures had picked clean I buried them for yours.
We could hear the young ones croaking within; so, with a hatchet we broke one of the eggs, and took the chicken out unfledged; it was bigger than twenty vultures put together.
These vultures have each three heads, and are immensely large; you may judge of their size when I tell you that one of their feathers is bigger than the mast of a ship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vultures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
