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  • Wearing hostile expressions and fantailed headdresses, they put on a parade involving goose-stepping and Rockettes-height kicks.

    Signs of a slow thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations 2010

  • They hung in the burning air, fantailed and soaring and great, and he went scrambling for the book when he spotted a large dark bird nested in the arm-crotch of a tall saguaro.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They hung in the burning air, fantailed and soaring and great, and he went scrambling for the book when he spotted a large dark bird nested in the arm-crotch of a tall saguaro.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They hung in the burning air, fantailed and soaring and great, and he went scrambling for the book when he spotted a large dark bird nested in the arm-crotch of a tall saguaro.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • A battle can follow a successful hunt, with two or more birds rising to meet the first in a fluttering, fantailed dogfight that looks more like a dance.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • A battle can follow a successful hunt, with two or more birds rising to meet the first in a fluttering, fantailed dogfight that looks more like a dance.

    Matt's Ten Birds part 2 2006

  • Her father picked up another piece of sushi, a pale-orange fantailed shrimp, and gazed at it thoughtfully.

    Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows Lackey, Mercedes 1990

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