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He goes back to work cementing the several woven limbs and then transforms the large, avian leaf structures into sculpted, long-winged bird figures, as if soaring far above the sculpted figure just beneath.
Bear Circuit Jesse Crockett 2011
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The long-winged conehead cricket is a slender green and brown insect with a conical head, and was first found in Britain only in the 1940s.
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Like several other orthoptera, including the wonderfully named long-winged conehead, the bush cricket is on a northward march, possibly as a consequence of climate change.
Country diary 2010
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The mayflies go through a long, lingering insect adolescence in the water before they transform into delicate, long-winged forms.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The mayflies go through a long, lingering insect adolescence in the water before they transform into delicate, long-winged forms.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The mayflies go through a long, lingering insect adolescence in the water before they transform into delicate, long-winged forms.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Darnoway — they match your long-winged falcons, friend
The Abbot 2008
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And when Apollo heard this report, he went yet more quickly on his way, and presently, seeing a long-winged bird, he knew at once by that omen that thief was the child of Zeus the son of Cronos.
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So said the swiftly flying hawk, the long-winged bird.
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Zeus, well-skilled in song, tell of the long-winged 220 Moon.
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