By-and-by he opened his hooked beak, and great red mouth, and roared out, 'Hoo! hohoo!

How our fine preachers would turn up their Tom-tit beaks and flirt with their tails at it!

" And getting Campbell to hold the beak, which the bird was using with all its vigour, he grasped its legs and wings together by his left hand, and began to tear from the tender living skin the feathers.

To witness the French nun seeking to allay the hunger of these voracious schoolboy aliens was to picture a wren trying to fill the ever-gaping beaks of two young cuckoos whom an adverse fate had dropped into her nest.

Little birds perch and chitter and wipe their beaks unconcernedly, now on the tip of his nose and now on the point of his mitre, while the world below goes on its way pretty much as it did when the good saint was alive, and, in despair of the human brotherhood, took to preaching to the birds and the fishes.

He was just going to thrust his beak into the snake, but suddenly checked himself.

But he only snapped his beak at me.

Upon one of the piers of the sanctuary are a pair of symbolical doves dipping their beaks into the chalice that separates them, and upon another are two grotesque and fantastic beasts facing one another with frightful jaws wide open.

As we approached them, they clapped their beaks, with a very quick motion, which made a great noise.

It is sufficient to compare the beaks of the Guacharo and goat-sucker to conjecture how much their manners must differ.

A Duck's teeth are horny like the skin that covers its whole beak, and act like strainers.

You will find it quite easy to cut out the "beaks" and "bone" for yourself, or the fishermen will not mind saving them for you.

Mewell, they're fussy about teeth, I'm told, and, of course, I had to have a swift poke in the mush that dented my beak.

Extending entirely across the field, they kept line with wonderful accuracy, and as they marched across it, slowly and constantly dug their beaks into the soil as if seeking grubs or worms beneath the surface.

Little availed their naval arts, such as breaking off the oars of a ship, and eluding the beaks of the enemy by turning aside; for the grappling-irons and other instruments, which, before the engagement, had been greatly derided by the enemy, were fastened upon their ships, and they were compelled to fight as on solid ground.

"That blooming bird fears neither man nor devil," Cook was heard to mutter, after he had embedded his beak in her ankle; and it was quite true.

I felt the old beak furtively.

"We've got her beak straight now, and there's not as much as a dab of mud betwixt this and the three hills of Boston.

I poked my nose into upper air and saw which way he was going, and to my joy he made a dip just as up went my beak again, and I had him, squeezed securely between my jaws.

And those of earth about her porch Of shadow cool and grey Their sidelong beaks in silence lean, And silent flit away.

Caught four dolphins, which afforded us a most delicious repast: in the paunch of one was found a dodon, or globe-fish; the sailors call it a parrot-fish, from its having a beak exactly resembling that bird.

Chicks should be fed for the first fifteen days in the dust to protect them from injuring their tender beaks on the hard ground: their diet being crushed barley mixed with cress seed and soaked in wine, for prepared in this way the grain is digestible.

The young males, however, lose their sucking beak and can no longer take food, but they gain a pair of wings and an additional pair of eyes.

Of the five spirits that composed the eyebrow, the one nearest the beak was Trajan, now experienced above all others in the knowledge of what it costs not to follow Christ, by reason of his having been in hell before he was translated to heaven.

No Boche would dare to poke the beak of his engine above the housetops.