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  • Towering, kite-shaped airships could herald a new era of luxury transport following today's introduction of the Aircruise concept.

    Aircruise Luxury 'Air Ships' Could Float You Around The World 2010

  • Towering, kite-shaped airships could herald a new era of luxury transport following today's introduction of the Aircruise concept.

    Aircruise Luxury 'Air Ships' Could Float You Around The World 2010

  • It showed an image of a knight on horseback clad in chain mail, wearing a close-fitting open helmet with a nose-guard and carrying a large kite-shaped shield.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • It showed an image of a knight on horseback clad in chain mail, wearing a close-fitting open helmet with a nose-guard and carrying a large kite-shaped shield.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • A trapezohedron is a solid whose faces are kite-shaped quadrilaterals, like a 10-sided die.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • I then loosed his clothes, primarily to confirm his identity, and found just above one hip the kite-shaped birth-mark described by Billy Birdsong.

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

  • It's a big -- like a kite-shaped area out there that goes up into Colorado and over into New Mexico.

    CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Why Has Texas Tech Hired Bobby Knight? - March 26, 2001 2001

  • Garric struck low, under the kite-shaped shield one carried, and split the other lich to midchest with an overhand stroke.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • Although Madelyne held no such protection, both Duncan and Gilard blocked the branches that would have plucked her from her seat, using their kite-shaped shields as barriers against the gnarled branches barring their path.

    Honor’s Splendour Julie Garwood 1987

  • Two servants hurried toward the watting knight, holding the kite-shaped shield between them in order to share its weight, and when they reached his side, they waited in silence for the warrior to lift it.

    Gentle Warrior Garwood, Julie 1985

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