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Everyone's eyes were on the whitewinged creature flying above them.
Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret 1985
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Everyone's eyes were on the whitewinged creature flying above them.
Hammer and Axe Parkinson, Dan 1985
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Clouds of blue pigeons, and whitewinged albatros, flew about over our heads, uttering plaintive cries; add to these the stentorian voice of our French commander, the curiosity and impatience of the travellers demonstrated by their noisy exclamations, and one will have an idea of the spectacle offered by the deck of a steamer on its arrival at a Turkish port.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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We saw a family of howler monkeys, orinoco goose (rare) on a sandbar flat, vultures, great black hawk, capped heron, snowy egret, amazon kingfisher, tapirs, whitewinged swallows, and turtles.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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And it is a curious fact that our little navy, in which the art of handling and fighting the old broadside, sailing frigate in single conflict was brought to the highest point of perfection ever reached, that this same navy should have contained the first representative of the modern war steamer, and also the torpedo -- the two terrible engines which were to drive from the ocean the very whitewinged craft that had first won honor for the starry flag.
The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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