Beaks
[bi:ks]
Examples
- Look at them with their hooked beaks, Becky said, getting into the buggy, her picture under her arm, in great glee. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We'll see wot the Secretary of State for the Home Affairs has got to say to the beaks, if I don't,' replied Mr. Dawkins. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I have before mentioned that earth occasionally adheres in some quantity to the feet and beaks of birds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In the different species of geospiza there is a perfect gradation in the size of the beaks, only to be appreciated by seeing the specimens or their ill ustrations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There were the conch shell trumpet, the stone, bone, wood and metal dance rattles, the beaks of birds, and the horns and teeth of beasts, for the same rattling purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Vlad