bird of prey

He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child was sitting, for the mother had fallen asleep under the tree with the child, and a bird of prey had seen it in her arms, had flown down, snatched it away, and set it on the high tree.

He was a hook-nosed man, and with that and his bright eyes and his ruffled head, bore a certain likeness to a roused bird of prey.

He learned also that a bark had been seen far out at sea, and that, like a bird of prey, a royal vessel had pursued, overtaken, and devoured the poor little bird that was flying with such palpitating wings.

Or, better still," Adam went on, "the eyes of a bird of prey when he is following his instincts.

With his long beak-like nose and his single gleaming eye, which shone brightly from under a thick tuft of grizzled brow, he seemed to Alleyne to have something of the look of some fierce old bird of prey. For a moment he smiled, as his eye lit upon the banner of the five roses waving from the hamlet; but his course lay for Pampeluna, and he rode on after the archers.

He arose and approached the edge of the canyon, and then, wheeling, with his face turned upward toward the circling bird of prey, he bellowed forth the challenge of the bull ape.

She had large black eyes and her nose was slightly aquiline; in profile she had somewhat the look of a bird of prey, but full face she was prepossessing.

With an eye keen as that of a bird of prey, -- with a long aquiline nose, a finely cut mouth, which he generally kept open, or rather which was gaping like the edges of a wound, -- this man would have presented to Lavater, if Lavater had lived at that time, a subject for physiognomical observations which at the first blush would not have been very favourable to the person in question.

Marketing manager Liz Gunn said:"Our bird of prey themed week takes place until Sunday, August 4.

you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Bird of Prey is the latest comic book invention, but in fact it's our latest conceptual aircraft.

Dennis Salvador, executive director of PEF, in an earlier interview at the premiere of the documentary Bird of Prey in Makati City recently, said the move will help protect and conserve the species from being wiped out by disease like the dreaded bird flu virus.

Hopefully, this generation will make time to watch films, like 'Bird of Prey' in order to bring back to public consciousness the wretched predicament of our national AND natural treasures.