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  • Lindbergh put the wide-winged amphibian into a shallow glide.

    Helen Davey: Pan Am: A Dream Takes Flight (Part III) Helen Davey 2011

  • Giant bait balls of sardines deckled and thrashed the surface, while hundreds of small terns and a few wide-winged frigate birds swooped over them.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • Despite some mental disgruntlement from his owl, who had been awakened for the flight, Kuari's appearance and wide-winged, silent landing as Darian declared himself by the title Owl Knight raised a cheer from everyone.

    Elephant in the City 2010

  • The first beings I greeted in 2006 were an impossibly wide-winged sooty albatross and a little snowy petrel, who circled and circled and crossed each other.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • The first beings I greeted in 2006 were an impossibly wide-winged sooty albatross and a little snowy petrel, who circled and circled and crossed each other.

    The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007

  • He doubted that, because even Alcyna had looked away from the Hall as they climbed out, carried southward by the, wide-winged and tireless pteridons.

    Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • On a brilliant autumn day these wide-winged war birds were a sight to see, big and brown against the green shade trees of the surrounding farms.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • On a brilliant autumn day these wide-winged war birds were a sight to see, big and brown against the green shade trees of the surrounding farms.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • There he turned eastward and watched the wide-winged pteridon launch itself, then glide away, dropping lower as it left the higher peaks behind.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Young Frankenstein doll that's FRAHNK-EN-STEEN! so now Dracula has someone to talk to. yeah, i've got a big Dracula doll--complete with wide-winged bat and two cowering rats. what can i say?

    vampires and hard-boiled private dicks 2003

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