carrion-crow

Are you come to triumph over the innocence you have destroyed, as the vulture or carrion-crow comes to batten on the lamb whose eyes it has first plucked out?

Kenilworth 2004

Other birds have no crop, but instead of it an oesophagus wide and roomy, either all the way or in the part leading to the stomach, as with the daw, the raven, and the carrion-crow.

The History of Animals 2002

She couldn't just leave the body lying in front of the Oracle's cave like an invitation to every bug and carrion-crow in the forest, either.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

And when, at last, your sinful race is run, and your guilty soul has been ushered into that dreaded eternity you have plucked upon it, may your polluted carcass become the prey of the carrion-crow and the buzzard, and the wild beasts of the desert wilderness howl a requiem over your bones!

Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims Alvin Addison

Stop from your croaking, old carrion-crow there ....

Lysistrata 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Badb: the war-fury, or goddess of war and carnage; she was wont to appear in the form of a carrion-crow.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

Much of this town had recently been destroyed in the revolution, and close to the track stood a crowded cemetery with hundreds of gorged and somnolent _zopilotes_, the carrion-crow of

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

If that isn't the only fish of its kind in the seven seas, call me a carrion-crow -- Tommy, we're in luck.

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

A carrion-crow flew low over the trees and the twittering birds fell silent.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

He put her in mind of a carrion-crow searching for treasures on a heap of refuse.

The Rocks of Valpre 1910