birdless

Its name signifies "birdless," indicating that its ascending vapors were fatal to all birds that attempted to fly above its surface.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

Harsh reality is an acquired taste, and it beats the heck out of fantasies that leave you birdless and crying at the end of what should have been your day in the field.

Winchester Super X3 12 gauge thoughts? comparisons? 2010

In Riding the Iron Rooster, China is a barren, birdless, smog-choked land that smells of lots of things you don't want to smell, primarily urine.

Questions of travel 2009

Harsh reality is an acquired taste, and it beats the heck out of fantasies that leave you birdless and crying at the end of what should have been your day in the field.

Winchester Super X3 12 gauge thoughts? comparisons? 2010

In Riding the Iron Rooster, China is a barren, birdless, smog-choked land that smells of lots of things you don't want to smell, primarily urine.

Lance Mannion: 2009

There was still no sign that his approach was observed; the headland was silent, birdless.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

All that time I have lived my life under birds and I cannot remember a single birdless day.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

He called it Avernus and it takes its name from the Greek word “aornos,” meaning birdless.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Slowly they filtered back the way they came and I was left birdless that day.

Everyday Enlightenments 2007

I pulled over by an oyster table to comfort myself with the safely birdless suit-backs of the men lined up in front of me, and with the oysters themselves, as far from flight as animals can get, limbless and slick, more like an organ than an organism, like little stopped hearts.

The Birdcage 2009