Usage examples (6)

• Once more he sent a portion of his mind out through the ventilator and found one of the pigeon-like birds still nearby.
• That feeling of being watched made him cautious, so he did not practice much with his mind-control on any of the pigeon-like birds!
• Another, a pigeon-like creature, began softly, and continued to repeat in diminishing energy until it seemed to have run down, like a piece of clockwork.
• Minnie Rauskukle, plump, hearty Minnie, heiress to the general store, gave evidence by bridling and straightening her pigeon-like body that she was aware of Milt behind her.