Farebrother had had a beak and talons instead of his very capable tongue, his mode of attack could hardly be more cruel.
They could see the gape of his tiny beak as he yawned in a bored sort of way, looked round, and then settled his head into his back again, while the ruffled feathers gradually subsided into perfect stillness.
The long, thin white hair, curly at the ends, the aristocratic beak of a nose, the crumpled, wide, ravelling shirt front, the string tie, with the bow nearly under one ear, were almost exactly duplicated.
That's what you call a 'ruse,'" she said, smoothing down her feathers with her beak.
, Its wings were a blur while its little needle shaped beak , [en]plunged deep into a flower.
The Eagle and the Raven An eagle was trying to break open a nut in his beak when a raven landed on a branch beside him.
Aesop's Fables The Crow and the Pitcher A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it.
The Fox and the Crow A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree.
In one study, researchers gave crows and humans the same puzzle: A toy floats on top of water inside a tall glass, too narrow for a bird to get its beak down or for a small child to place their hands into.
" and ran with open beak at the cock.
As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it.
Then they saw that every bird brought a little soil in its beak, and dropped the soil on Sun's body.
But before they could even begin the speeches of welcome they had prepared, the stork stuck his long beak into the water and began to gobble up as many Frogs as he could see.
A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to old a painful hard twisting curve through his wings.
Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
The crane loosened the bone with its beak, and finally got it out.
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air - An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies, Biting the air with its black beak?
Sometimes when I am weeding in the late afternoon, I hear the vibrating wings of the ruby-throated hummingbird before I see it dipping its beak into the long tubular flowers of the blue anise sage (Salvia guaranitica) called Black and Blue for its cobalt-blue petals and near-black calyxes at the base of the flowers.
But before they could even begin the speeches of welcome they had prepared, the stork stuck his long beak into the water and began to gobble up as many Frogs as he could see.
Before Charles Darwin articulated his theory of evolution, most naturalists saw phenomena in nature, from an orchid's petal to the hook of a vulture's beak, as things literally designed by God.
