man-shape

The buzzing came from two little powergliders, their fabric wings far smaller than the pteranodons, little black man-shape in each one.

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

This man-shape in the tree made it real, as if he'd been in a park overlooking San Cristobal only yesterday, with the crack of skull and blood on his shoe.

Gansevoort Ridge 2009

But they hadn't ridden more than a few lengths when Shai saw an almost transparent wisp trudging along the road, a whipcord man-shape who had such an antique look about him — as though he had lingered in this spot for a hundred years — that Shai actually stared, wondering who this ghost was and where it came from.

Spirit Gate 2006

The silent robot stood waiting at the lock, a tall man-shape made of crystal bits.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

The shadow at the door resolved into a man-shape as I approached, the outline blurred by the dirty gray of the fly screen and the bright sunshine behind.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

These lay there on dark wet sand, a darker, crusted man-shape, like a scarecrow fashioned of rags and pitch on a frame of gnarled black sticks.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

It was a bipedal man-shape, not quite a gort but similar, no more than four feet tall, standing beside the open front door, staring at me with two glowing red glass eyes.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

Willow certainly knew, as the whole caravan knew, that Twisted Cloud was pregnant by Coyote where the only living man-shape was Whandall's.

The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

Light went down as a man-shape filled the doorway.

Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

They whirled as one, and a shadow separated itself from the darker shadows behind them, taking on man-shape until it moved to where light shone on its face.

Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998