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  • Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
  • It proved the operational concept of a winged, reusable spaceship by successfully completing the Orbital Flight Test Program.
  • The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones.
  • At Ngarkat and Karte conservation parks, you can see everything from ring-necked parrots, honeyeaters and white-winged choughs, to Australian bustards, yellow-tailed black cockatoos and sometimes even a rare Mallee emu-wren or the Mallee ningaui.
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  • Dark brows winged out in perfect arches above her deep set eyes. JUST BETWEEN US
  • I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • The show includes Bouguereau paintings of a water girl; a bather; two gypsies; and a nude winged Cupid, and is fleshed out with paintings and sculptures by his contemporaries, including a striking tondo by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The Shape of Things
  • North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
  • White winged doves coo, and a whiptail lizard scurries across the gravel.
  • They included shirts, shoes and starched winged collars. The Sun
  • His precious remains rest quietly in the fresh made grave; his immortal spirit has winged its flight to the mansions of the blessed, for “blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
  • Freely on offer at 4/1 before the off Rockstown Lad made a nonsense of those odds as he winged out of trap five leaving his rivals floundering in his wake.
  • First thing you are going to need are mosquito coils or citronella candles to keep away the winged blood-suckers.
  • The eggs of the bronze-winged jacana have a rich brownish-bronze background, on which black lines are scribbled in inextricable confusion, so that the egg looks as though Arabic texts had been scrawled over it. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • Non-winged and winged adults are usually shiny black while the smaller nymphs may appear to be a dull gray to black.
  • When the mayflies emerge from the water as winged adults, they're called ‘duns.’
  • Among the distinctive bird species in the hotspot is the aforementioned white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis, CR), which is found only in the dry forests at the southern extreme of the hotspot. Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
  • We tend to measure mileage based on the rate of travel by these winged odometers.
  • Feeding on a milkweed leaf, tiny aphids (some winged, some wingless) are ‘tended’ by an ant, which feeds on the sweet honeydew excreted by the aphids.
  • A deer was said to be broken, a cony unlaced, a pheasant, partridge, or quail winged, a pigeon or a woodcock thighed, a plover minced, a mallard unbraced. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
  • Your breastplate is in the shape of a spread-winged eagle, with bright yellow gems for its eyes.
  • Below the wood, a curlew started from the grass and winged beneath us, its mate calling from across the dale.
  • Mecoptera: long-winged: neuropterous insects with similar, large, unfolded wings; mouth mandibulate, prolonged into a beak: head free; thorax agglutinated; transformations complete: the scorpion flies or Panorpidae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • Down in the bog, the first red-winged blackbirds were yodeling, and a robin sang in the evening.
  • There were a dozen black-winged stilts, two spur-winged plovers, a common sandpiper and my new life bird, a great snipe.
  • However, to keep these teeth pearly white, the crocodiles employ the services of spur winged plovers that pick the pieces of meat left between the crocodile's teeth after a large meal.
  • The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • We waited hours for several common birds - blue jay, northern flicker, and fish crow - but missed red-winged blackbird and American robin.
  • Examples are buff-breasted tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus mirandae), white-winged cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), seven-colored tanager (Tangara fastuosa), and yellow-faced siskin (Carduelis yarrellii). Pernambuco interior forests
  • Terrestrial animal life was limited to unwinged insects like millipedes and scorpions.
  • Perhaps that blue-winged Kashmirian butterfly of book-learning, Lady ****, will be there. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
  • Bar-winged skimmers range throughout the southeastern United States from Louisiana and Florida north to New Jersey.
  • Into this the winds would drop from the high places like broken-winged birds, dashing themselves against the polished walls of the Pyweack, dashing and falling back and crying woundedly. The Trail Book
  • The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
  • Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony. The River and I
  • Shakespeare, in _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, represents him as “a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged, dainty-limbed fairies, strong enough to knock all their heads together, a rough, knurly-limbed, fawn-faced, shock-pated, mischievous little urchin.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
  • A poorly cleared ball fell just outside the box where the waiting Hasney Aljofree simply clattered it on the drop and it winged home.
  • Spring flowers give way to those gum balls, woody balls covered with curved spines and containing one or two winged seeds.
  • Cupid is usually depicted as a winged boy with a bow and arrow.
  • Golden-winged Warbler territories usually included a shrubby field with patches of herbs and shrubs, a field-forest ecotone and adjacent forest.
  • The winged crocodile was kicked into the closet, after it were hurled the thunder machine and the lightning torch, and after them clattered the cups and the silver rundlet. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale
  • During the spring and fall migration periods, extensive use is made of the area by most waterfowl in the mid-Atlantic region, including Canada geese, greenwinged teal, bluewinged teal, gadwall, pintail, wigeon and shoveler. Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve
  • A nerve suddenly twinged in her chest, and without a second thought, she shot for the surface of the pool, suddenly afraid.
  • The blade is tensioned by a winged nut at the end opposite the wooden handle.
  • The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Two species of jacana occur in India: the bronze-winged (_Motopus indicus_) and the pheasant-tailed jacana or the water-pheasant A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • The fierce-looking, winged dobsonfly has a life cycle that lasts two to five years.
  • Im­por­t­antly for Islam, the Koran itself 17th surah tells of Moham­med's famous dream in which he took a night jour­ney on the winged horse El Buraq along with the Angel Gab­r­i­el. Archive 2009-04-01
  • A flock of devilfish shapes winged half a mile away. Three Worlds to Conquer
  • Rod winged another in the leg and he fell to a kneeling position still firing.
  • The other night, trying to read an improving book in the bath, the room began filling with mosquitoes, midges and a small brown winged bug I didn't hang about to identify.
  • Next came the brief period of their artistic glory; then the syncretism of the Renaissance, when these winged messengers were amalgamated with pagan _amoretti_ and began to flutter in foolish baroque fashion about the Queen of Heaven, after the pattern of the disreputable little genii attendant upon a Venus of a bad school. Old Calabria
  • One of them depicts a winged victory and on the obverse side are engraved the words: ‘The Great War for Civilisation’.
  • The plumages of hand-reared mallards, baldpates, blue-winged teal, shovellers and ring-necked ducks develop more slowly although pintails, redheads and canvasbacks appear similar.
  • Atop Athena's helmet, between winged griffins, crouched an inscrutable sphinx.
  • Sunbirds in the highland forest include the golden winged sunbird Nectarinia reichenowi and eastern double collared sunbird N. mediocris. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
  • In a familiar oxbow lake, there were gallinules and egrets, even a couple of brightly colored wood ducks and five blue-winged teal.
  • Incredible whooshes that sound like huge airliners amazingly turn out to be green-winged teals recorded from close range.
  • The former was dressed in "a parti-colored dress, including a cowl, which ended in a cock's-head, and was winged with a couple of long ears; he, moreover, carried in his hand a stick called his bauble, terminating either in an inflated bladder or some other ludicrous object, to be employed in slapping inadvertent neighbors. Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
  • Birds here are diverse and include honeyeaters, pilotbirds, cockatoos, pied currawongs, white-winged choughs, and laughing kookaburras, the largest kingfisher in Australia.
  • The Romanian team will present a mock-up of a new winged spaceplane called Orizont.
  • In the myth, it was Bellerophon, straddling the winged horse Pegasus, who finally slew the fire-breathing chimera.
  • A diverse assemblage of winged insects appears suddenly in the fossil record about 330 million years ago, and there are few clues about their evolutionary lineage.
  • The bird's chances of survival are slim, and depend on daily hatches of small winged insects. Times, Sunday Times
  • The most unusual plumage and wing modifications among the 40 or so species of manakins belong to the club-winged manakin, Bostwick told the group.
  • Fronds oblong-lanceolate, five to twelve inches long, twice pinnate, the pinnæ often pinnatifid or cut-toothed, ovate-lanceolate, decurrent on the winged rachis. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
  • It was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank.
  • Executed like the voluted palmettes and tabletop inlays with incised details but no surface modeling, it represents the forepart of two winged lions with bull's horns flanking a voluted palmette.
  • Kelly wants to develop the Astroliner, a winged rocket towed into the air by a 747 jet and released at altitude to soar on a suborbital trajectory under its own power.
  • It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow.
  • All the quirks of strange fiction, to put it in a pertinent perspective, all the counterfactual errata, the hypothetical novae, the metaphysical chimerae — Nazi presidents and robot stormtroopers and butterfly-winged faeries — these are not pure invention. Creative Control - Part 4
  • Proteinase inhibitors, affecting trypsin and chymotrypsin, have been found in seeds of A. cowleana and other species. but only at levels similar to those found in peas or beans-much lower than levels in soybeans or winged beans (Kortt, 1984). Chapter 48
  • The hero, Roger, is a knight who rides a mythical animal, a hippogriff (a winged horse that has talons and the beak of a hawk).
  • Whatever that result, he does return to Downing Street still permanently winged by Iraq.
  • Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works! Archive 2009-04-26
  • Half a dozen companies have built the design since production began in 1940; earlier examples were rag-winged, later ones metal.
  • A tall gray man with piercing eyes and a sternly lined face remained firmly seated in the pinto's saddle, while four winged men, wearing clothing not too much unlike ploughmen's attire, circled the deck.
  • The first and the second glumes are subequal and empty, and the first glume is winged along the inflated margins. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • That they also sport flamboyant blooms is a bonus - their winged flowers flaunt themselves atop three to five foot plants.
  • The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
  • It was built in 1646 with materials brought in bat-winged junks from China and is the oldest Chinese Temple in Malaysia.
  • So far, tantalizing reports of red and white-winged crossbills and pine grosbeaks remain just that: tantalizing, meaning just out of reach.
  • I started near the north pond where a couple black-winged stilts came flying out of the reeds.
  • The melodious chirps, chirrups, tweets, twitters and warbling notes from the winged visitors blend well with the incessant hum, buzz and drone of innumerable insects, to produce the effect of being inside a vast forest.
  • Something swooped at her, some winged and flabby thing whirling out of the aphotic pits of this non-being; she felt it cut her arm, felt blood hot on the cold flesh. The Silicon Mage
  • So whoever was trying to get at Jiang through Jia seems to have only winged the president.
  • At the pond there were a few white-winged terns, a black-crowned night heron, a purple swamphen, and some blue-cheeked bee-eaters.
  • The beautifully coloured and almost transparently winged golden moorhen covers every stretch of water inland, and the "chaja" or wild turkey, one of the most useless birds in the Chaco, and quite uneatable, sends forth his dismal cry "chaja. Argentina from a British Point of View
  • It seemed like the only living creatures who knew about it were myself and the birds that spied on me from the trees above like a bunch of tiny, winged Shelbys.
  • Who's driving the winged chariot? Times, Sunday Times
  • Analysis has shown that the level of raffinose and stachyose (sugars that lead to flatulence) is less in winged bean than in soybean. 3 Food Use and Nutritive Value
  • A spotted eagle ray winged its way sternwards as we meandered in the direction of the bow, just above the port rail.
  • When the mayflies emerge from the water as winged adults, they're called ‘duns.’
  • The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
  • The bars represent lines of print on a page, and the caduceus was the winged wand entwined with serpents carried by Mercury, the messenger of the gods. The World of 1975
  • A bird the color of rye bread chirped as it winged by and out into the distance until it became a mere dot in the sky.
  • Meanwhile, seagulls the size of winged chihuahuas stare malevolently down from steepled sandstone spires.
  • They say the gray-winged cotinga occupies forest at a higher elevation than the black-and-gold cotinga.
  • Measuring 2.90 by 3.77 metres, the drawing includes studies of a female figure with children, a seated male figure and a podgy winged baby, or 'putto', as well as various sketches of arms and a right hand. Michelangelo sketches of Sistine Chapel to be displayed in Italy
  • More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, cattle and little egrets, little stints, common sandpipers, pond herons and little winged plovers.
  • I remember this from childhood - great clouds of oversized winged insects, swarming up from the pavement cracks and the nooks and crannies in walls.
  • They require 700 costumes, some winged wonders more than 20 feet high.
  • We may "pshaw" and "pooh" at Harry Gill and the Idiot Boy; but the deep and tremulous tenderness of sentiment, the strong-winged flight of fancy, the excelling and unvarying purity, which pervade all the writings of Wordsworth, and the exquisite melody of his lyrical poems, must ever continue to attract and purify the mind. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
  • For centuries this staff, known also as the caduceus, the winged staff of Hermes-Mercury, the messenger of the gods, is depicted with two entwining serpents and has been the symbol of the medical profession.
  • Its love triangle is mowed down by time's winged chariot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Seated around a mass of black stone, a group of young Muslim men are shaping a Farohar - a winged angel from another time, and faith, than their own.
  • The bird's chances of survival are slim, and depend on daily hatches of small winged insects. Times, Sunday Times
  • He gestured to the star chart whose connected constellations formed a four - winged bird.
  • While paired Australian magpie-larks like to travel with their mates, both apostlebirds and white-winged choughs prefer to flock in small groups of up to twenty birds.
  • By the time we bought the property in 2003 most of the native grasses were gone, only a few winged saltbush shrubs existed. Bird Cloud
  • The female flowers are followed by dehiscent capsules, usually trilocular, with 6 seeds, usually winged for wind dispersal, though many of the cultivated forms have become partially or highly sterile. Chapter 37
  • I give you the health of 'Thanatos' -- the leviathan of artillery, the winged bearer of death and destruction -- and of its inventor, Herr von Heckmann. The Man Who Rocked the Earth
  • There were also winged salamanders feasting on flying insects such as flies and mosquitoes.
  • Executed like the voluted palmettes and tabletop inlays with incised details but no surface modeling, it represents the forepart of two winged lions with bull's horns flanking a voluted palmette.
  • Instead of gold-glinting scales and sleek wingless bodies, these draconians were brassy and bewinged. The Dragons at War
  • _A. maximum_, the great winged amomum, produces the Java cardamoma of the London market, and is also grown extensively in Ceylon, the The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Do the silent - winged stars never climb the sky above your pitiless tower?
  • After all, if you no longer believe in the Tooth Fairy, you shouldn't expect to continue receiving monies under your pillow from a winged woman.
  • Platyptera: flat and broad-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four net-veined wings, secondaries longitudinally folded beneath primaries; mouth mandibulate; prothorax free; transformations complete: Psocidae, Termitidae, Perlidae and Mallophaga. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • Anhingas and Double-crested Cormorants, representing closely allied avian families, share a spread-winged behavior that is superficially identical.
  • Sleepless, I carved on the walls fantastic figures in mazy bewildering lines-winged horses, flowers with human faces, women with limbs like serpents.
  • Seemingly invisible on our horses we rode amongst azure-winged magpies, great bustard, hoopoes and a hundred other species of birds.
  • A dark shadow was cast in front of them in the shape of a large, beaked, winged animal.
  • There was also an assortment of winged insectoid types of life, although the scientists assured me that they were NOT insects in the way that I knew, and some sort of creature that looked like a cross between a turtle, a lizard, and a walking stick You know, the kind of insect that looks like a stick? Around a Sun Named Inferno
  • He is commonly remembered not as the mature creator -- forging, in mingled arrogance and piety, "the uncreated conscience of his race" -- but as a winged figure poised for a break with the dominating forces in his background. James Joyce
  • The winged adult mosquitoes emerge from the pupae.
  • In any case, this close to Abila, twenty of Alliandre's soldiers and as many Mayener Winged Guards provided sufficient escort. The Path of Daggers
  • We hypothesize that an important reason for male and female tropical bats to form long term aggregations is to profit from more efficient foraging via information transfer, postulated previously as a reason for sociality in males of narrow-winged temperate-zone species PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The farm is also home to blue-winged teals, coots, grebes, and an occasional osprey or peregrine falcon.
  • So far the program has proved effective, but it hasn't yet passed what might be called its final exam: the search for the elusive gray-winged cotinga.
  • Walking the debauched Jahilian streets, his heart full of bile, Hamza has seen men and women in the guise of eagles, jackals, horses, gryphons, salamanders, wart -- hogs, rocs; welling up from the murk of the alleys have come two-headed amphisbaenae and the winged bulls known as Assyrian sphinxes. The Satanic Verses
  • Time to turn on the lights and watch them scurry back into the darkness … Their excessive postings and repeating their reich winged swill is all they have … So much hate, they truly are a miserable lot. Think Progress » Bush advised to ‘lawyer up.’
  • Usually, we see a couple of shapes -- the little pudgy, baby-shaped angels, we call cherubim; and the two winged, blonde-haired feminine beauties we often top our trees with. Canadian Christianity - Canadian News
  • The results showed that seed germination and mortality of Zygophyllum xanthoxylum were significantly affected by winged perianth, and varied with the burial depth and duration.
  • A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully. 52449_CLARA
  • With the coming of summer and the arrival of our winged visitors, such as the cuckoo and the swallow, our thoughts often wander to the superstitions associated with birds of almost every kind.
  • A winged Cupid, or Love, is represented as having gone before them, preparing the nuptial feast.
  • One was the Winged Messenger of old, eight feet tall in a silvered suit and a helmet with a reflective visor and golden wings that covered his head and neck completely.
  • Winter visitors are comprised of the sandpipers (Calidris mauri and Micropalama himantopus), the blue-winged teal (Anas discors) and several Nearctic limicolaes. Coastal Venezuelan mangroves
  • To us, time is a winged chariot speeding up towards old age and death. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the other hand, I was impressed by the big delta-winged shape docked to one end. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • This morning's horror, the sallow? faced pervert who'd accosted her, all faded at the sight of the glorious bewinged apparition paralleling the bus. The Metrognome and Other Stories
  • The winged males and females have a very ungainly flight that does not take them very far.
  • Paolo thought first of flying machines and then of the Montana winged horse. THE MAGICIANS OF CAPRONA
  • The ponds also attract black ducks, canvasbacks, American wigeons, lesser and greater scaups, green- and blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, and herons.
  • Tiny winged creatures flutter about, causing the children to duck and wave their arms.
  • The fireball had been close-followed by some stub-winged whooshing nightbird or hog-faced bat, flicking low to Inman's head, causing him to duck and walk stooped for three full strides. Cold Mountain
  • Also: the brimless, winged hat which Hermes is represented as wearing in later art. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • He picked his bruised body gingerly off the floor, cursing as his abused hands twinged with pain.
  • It is a statuette, apparently of gold, or, more probably, of bronze-gilt -- a figure of Mercury, obviously, its head being surmounted with the petasus or winged hat, the usual accessory of that deity. A Changed Man; and other tales
  • He was no more sober than the crowd above which he now towered -- a wild crowd, uncouthly garmented, every foot moccasined or muc-lucked [3], with mittens dangling from necks and with furry ear-flaps raised so that they took on the seeming of the winged helmets of the Norsemen. Chapter III
  • Two missiles flew out from Nymph's hull and crashed into the oncoming Wraiths, the first had been shattered into pieces while the other had merely been winged.
  • Pegasus, the winged horse, has always been equated with artistic inspiration.
  • Winged seeds are produced freely from the trilocular capsules which are 2-5 cm long: the seeds germinate readily. Chapter 37
  • Chickadees, crossbills, goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones.
  • From the cabbage is engendered the cabbageworm, and from the leek the prasocuris or leekbane; this creature is also winged. The History of Animals
  • This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches.
  • They are now very weather-worn, but it is still just possible to see that the running figure is a skeleton, and the pursuer is winged.
  • In the space of an hour, an astonishing 40,000 of the winged bloodsuckers will land on an unprotected arm, putting the average juicy hillwalker in line to receive a potential 11 bites a second.
  • The cryptic little icons surrounding the figure include clusters of rather phallic winged hearts, a hand that reaches into the picture from beyond the frame and an amorphous red shape emblazoned with a white cross.
  • Cupid is usually depicted as a winged boy with a bow and arrow.
  • Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
  • Skies were clear over South Sligo and East Mayo as skeins of wild geese winged their way towards the west coast.
  • Woe to the land, the winged cymbal, which is beyond the rivers of The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  • The Helios Prototype set a world altitude record for winged aircraft, 96,863 feet, during a flight in August 2001.
  • With little more than a hum, a delta-winged plane accelerates down the runway and blasts into the skies. Times, Sunday Times
  • The spread of the conical roof above the wide cylinder gives to the structure a buoyant lift and a light winged aeriality.
  • Aboue in this great Court paued as aforesayd, in the passage towardes the Porche, some tenne paces, I beheld a prodigious winged vaughting horse, of moulten brasse, of an exceeding bignesse, his wings fanning out. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
  • _Flowering glumes_ are broadly ovate or suborbicular, mucronulate, punctulate, with the lateral nerves equidistant from the margins and the median nerve, and produced far up towards the median nerve; palea is broad, shorter than its glume, deciduous with it, and with winged and scabrid keels. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Any winged aircraft, from the smallest Cessna prop puppy to the biggest Boeing behemoth, was a romantic artifact, a swoozy sculpture, a sailing thing of irresistible appeal; but a helicopter ... a helicopter was like a funky old shoetree that a witch had caused to levitate. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
  • It was thick enough to hide the winged pentacle tattoo that spanned his pectorals. Arcane Circle
  • Above the guardrail is a throne, winged and gothic looking with its clawed feet and wide, bat-wing like back with spindly, spiderlike legs framing the small figure sitting inside it.
  • The offending molar twinged as the twilight breeze drew more coolness into the air. O' Bending Light
  • Her head was crowned by a winged helmet with a plume of brightly colored feathers on top.
  • Generations ago Dysarts had been shot very conventionally at ten paces owing to this same debonair resistlessness; Dysarts had slipped into and out of all sorts of unsavoury messes on account of this fatal family failing; some had been neatly winged, some thrust through; some, in a more sordid age, permitted counsel of ability to explain to a jury how guiltless a careless gentleman could be under the most unfortunate and extenuating appearances. The Danger Mark
  • Many of the most destructive grasshopper species have poetic-sounding names: There's the whitewhiskered grasshopper and the threebanded, spottedwinged, redshanked and bigheaded varieties as well. Day of the Grasshopper Looms
  • There were lots of black-winged stilts, avocets, Red-wattled plover and black-headed gulls.
  • Her peasant headdress was high and elaborate, winged with chicken feathers, and her short skirts gave way before white stockings pulpily emerging from painted wooden shoes which clicked over the dull tiled floor. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
  • Opening image: A glorious well-oiled angel riding on a winged unicorn. Sure, it's sexy. But too sexy?
  • Likewise, the hybrid nature of their imagery, such as winged composite animals and voluted palmettes, has been taken as a lack of originality, a view that tends to stifle interest in iconographic meaning.
  • There's a dog growling, a cat hissing, a fox snarling, a wolf with flattened ears, and a winged creature extending its claws.
  • Then she turned and flew on winged feet up the narrow stair to take refuge in her garret room.
  • It showed what was clearly supposed to be some kind of winged figure, perhaps an angel. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
  • In the crown cavetto of the cornice is an Egyptian winged globe, entwined with serpents, emblematical of time and eternity; and on the faci below is engraved the following line: -- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827
  • A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully. 52449_CLARA
  • With its stainless steel body and gull-winged doors, it is one of the most instantly recognisable cars ever built.
  • A small branch that is pierced by a pair of garden shears and sits atop a classicized wall bracket with Corinthian details suggests a large-winged bird that has just landed.
  • This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches.
  • Winged forms of the aphid can transmit the virus to healthy raspberries from nearby infected brambles.
  • How about one with an extravagant winged fur collar, worn over a ballgown? Times, Sunday Times
  • The road descended through weedy habitat full of sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds.
  • Groups of winged sphinxes and griffins trampling fallen goats alternate with rampant goats and seated griffins.
  • The offending work was a piece from Condo's suite of Kanye portraits in which a fearsome Kanye, pictured naked, sits straddled by a nude, phoenixlike, winged woman-creature. A 'dark, twisted fantasy' revealed
  • Her side twinged, but she refused to double over again. Sweet Deceit
  • A blue-winged putto, garlanded with pink and white flowers, gazes forward into the viewer's space.
  • These are plants that reflect the autumn and early winter scene beautifully; small trees and dainty shrubs cloaked in unrivalled autumn colour and bearing delightful winged fruit. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was hardly the stuff of Johnny Wilkinson - much more the flight of a winged pheasant, but they all count!
  • SEATTLE (3-7): According to the Web site 10000birds. com, "seahawk" is actually a nickname for the osprey, a large, long-winged bird of prey. SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines

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