sharp-beaked

North Sea waves, he saw the sharp-beaked fighting galleys, and the sea-flung Northmen, great-muscled, deep-chested, sprung from the elements, men of sword and sweep, marauders and scourgers of the warm south-lands!

CHAPTER 14 2010

Turning the cover upside down reveals the unmistakable head - severed, one assumes - of a glaring, sharp-beaked rooster.

Book review: 'Blood, Bones & Butter' delectable when chef Hamilton's in charge 2011

Michael Tilson Thomas, 66, slim, warm-eyed and sharp-beaked, with a ready grin and a symmetrical fall of gray hair, has been music director of the San Francisco Symphony since 1995.

Bringing Mahler to the Masses David Littlejohn 2011

Turning the cover upside down reveals the unmistakable head - severed, one assumes - of a glaring, sharp-beaked rooster.

Book review: 'Blood, Bones & Butter' delectable when chef Hamilton's in charge 2011

Spartacus was tending to a shed full of sharp-beaked ducks in nests, deeply engaged in conversation with a few of them as he gathered their eggs in a basket and replaced their water buckets.

The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010

Then in a jerky-flighted, sharp-beaked little flock we saw the tick birds rise and fly away.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

Below them, thousands of sharp-beaked birds had exposed the bodies of and were working hard to free Cezer and Samm, who alone among the travelers were still imprisoned within the tree.

Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

Then in a jerky-flighted, sharp-beaked little flock we saw the tick birds rise and fly away.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

Then in a jerky-flighted, sharp-beaked little flock we saw the tick birds rise and fly away.

Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

In front of him, flopping weakly, was a large, sharp-beaked bird, a herring gull, Willow thought, its normally white and gray feathers now coated with a heavy dark crud, the result of an oil spill off the coast the night before.

Deep Water Laura Anne Gilman 2000