21 adjectives to describe cranes

You will be lifted to Juliet's balcony by a hydraulic crane.

There were great numbers of sage fowl, sharp-tailed prairie fowl, and ducks of all kinds; and swans, and tall white cranes; and geese, which nested in the tops of the cottonwood trees.

Mac stood as expressionless as the wooden crane.

Sloping coral sands, where Arab dhows have beached themselves for ages past, are now supporting the newest and most modern of tropical warehouses and wharves, electric cranes, travelling cargo-carriers and a well-planned railway goods yard that takes the freights of Hamburg to the heart of Central Africa.

You will see the long-legged cranes and the funny pelicans with their big beaks.

Near the apex of one of the latter, a little iron crane projected into the street.

By the waterside a stout oaken crane was unloading millstones, wheeling backwards and forwards on its axis.

One of our engravings shows the great revolving crane by which the guns were lifted and placed on the truck for conveyance over a track to their intended position.

to your roasted crane, Belike you'd seen its hidden leg again!"

They sailed thence to the north-west still among numerous islands, on which they saw many scarlet cranes or flamingos, parrots, and other birds, and dogs like those mentioned before, and the sea was covered with large quantities of weeds.

And she answered, "Yes," and she rose up in the water as beautiful as the wild white hawk, and stepped upon the edge of the bath as the shy white crane; and he threw garments over her and took her, and they proceeded to his house, and reposed there; and thenceforth, according to the ancient laws of the Maori, they were man and wife.

You can see the spiders at work on their silver cranes, you can watch the bold elevated activities of the caterpillars.

Just then, amidst the highest tier, Breaks forth a voice that starts the ear; "See theresee there, Timotheus, Behold the Cranes of Ibycus!" A sudden darkness wraps the sky; Above the roofless building hover Dusk, swarming wings; and heavily Sweep the slow Cranes, hoarse-murmuring, over! "Of Ibycus?"that name so dear Thrills through the hearts of those who hear!

The sepulchral boom of the bittern, the shriek of the curlew, the scream of the passing brent, the wrangling of quarrelsome teal, the sharp, querulous protest of the startled crane, were all beyond powers of written expression.

By the waterside a stout oaken crane was unloading millstones, wheeling backwards and forwards on its axis.

A tale of domestic infidelity is woven with this, and the denouement is made to turn on the premonition of a venerable crane, the leading Totem of the band, who, having consented to carry the ghost of a female across the falls on his back, threw her into the boiling and foaming flood to accomplish the poetic justice of the tale.

[PROMPTINGS OF DIVINE INSTINCT] Dispersed through every copse or marshy plain, Where hunts the woodcock or the annual crane, Where else encamped the feathered legions spread Or bathe incumbent on their oozy bed, The brimming lake thy smiling presence fills, And waves the banners of a thousand hills.

From the side of the one that cheered the living room, swung a crane worthy of the great copper cheese kettle that hung on its arm.

Two or three miles from Cologne we saw the spires of the different churches, conspicuous among which were the unfinished towers of the Cathedral, with the enormous crane standing as it did when they left off building, two hundred years ago or more.

You filthy long crane, you mean slave, will you kill your guests with blowing continual hunger in them?

Combined with the same machine, and traveling up and down one of the same posts used for the scaffold, is an improved crane.

21 adjectives to describe  cranes