"Do you know, dear Martin," said she, "what we should find there, where it all looks so bright and beautiful, if I had wings and could fly with you, clinging to my bosom like a little bat clinging to its mother when she flies abroad in the twilight?"

Without a doubt this is the secret of the vampire bat's ears.

whose cloudy skirts, With brede ethereal wove, O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short, shrill shriek, flits by on leathern wing; Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn.

But he was going to play a straight bat with the country whatever happened....

" "Indeed a blind bat could see that!" said the dressmaker pityingly.

All around them could be heard the refrain of planes in action; from above came similar sounds, and Jack, looking up, discovered dim scurrying forms of mysterious shape that flitted across the star-decked sky like giant bats.

The hooded bat; a sequence from a long poem entitled Mind province of the tenth month.

An occasional bat would flit like a doubtful shadow across his eyes, but a cool breath of air was roaming about as well, which was not of the night at all, but plainly belonged to the morning.

So have I seen the gigantic fruit bats, called flying foxes in India, hanging in hundreds in the upper branches of a tall peepul tree at noon, feeling too hot to sleep, and all fanning themselves in unison with one winga comic spectacle.

The next of solitariness, A portraiture doth well express, By sleeping dog, cat: Buck and Doe, Hares, Conies in the desert go: Bats, Owls the shady bowers over,

He is leaning forward, dandling his favourite bat, with which he has made thirty or forty runs to-day.

The night-birds catch up the sound and screech; the frightened bats circle round wildly.

Nodat isn't nuffin but a furry fly-round bat; (Say, he'd betta let dose people go.)

A thing like a big grey bat flapping about, proved, on inspection, to be that rascal the Lord High Admiral Satarah.

But neither sword nor dagger he did beare; 215 Seemes that no foes revengement he did feare; In stead of them a handsome bat he held,

"It's another of those horrid old bats," she gasped, bending down as an indistinct little shape fluttered past her.

Finally, everyone and/or any club that presently possesses Squash courts can introduce the additional indoor bat and ball game of Squash Tennis.

What meant this bounding joy that, like one gorgeous moth among innumerable bats, flashed to and fro among the wild distresses and dismays swarming in and out of his distempered imagination?

A live bat beats my crest above, Lean foxes nose where I have trod, And on my naked face the love Which is the loneliness of God.

Just then the Reindeer, like a monstrous bat, passed to leeward of them in the gloom.

But there are certain families of bats, named horseshoe bats, leaf-nosed bats and vampires about which common knowledge is nil, and the knowledge possessed by naturalists very little, so I will tell what I know of them.

"Ah, believe me," she was saying, "Rudolph isn't an ophthalmic bat.

I can't make out in the dusk whether they are vampires or just plain bats."

There was some werry little chaps a playing Cricket as before despite of the Law, and they had a reel bat too, and one on 'em, seeing me a looking on apruvingly, gave the ball such a tremenjus blow that he got a tooer, so I called out braywo!

Nodat isn't nuffin but a furry fly-round bat; (Say, he'd betta let dose people go.)