James Forsyte nodded, and moved, stork-like, on to the narrow crossing. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
This could perhaps be construed as agreement with the stork-like model. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Donna Matura, trust her, had not failed to report his first appearance, stork-like, in the Borgo. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
At the risk of stealing his thunder (sorry Mark), I will say that he, also, is a supporter of the stork-like model. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
I was in a drive-through at Burger King, and an egret (large, white stork-like bird) stood in front of my car as I picked up my food. From Wordnik.com. [A Northerners' Guide to Living in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida] Reference
Ghost's white hair, three storeys down, had been unmistakable, and John Rupert's long legs exaggerated from above his stork-like stride. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
Azhdarchids have the proficient terrestrial abilities required for a stork-like lifestyle, and lack features indicating a dedicated aerial lifestyle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Thousands of flamingos — those dainty, stork-like birds, with long legs, pink feathers and a distinctive crooked beak — were quietly sifting through the muddy waters of a creek in Mumbai. From Wordnik.com. [The recent "flamingo watch" in Mumbai attracted a large crowd] Reference
While he was sitting there worrying, Yarin Maeldan, his brooding, stork-like second on Spray, came into the Badger with his brows pulled down to his long nose and stood over the captain's table. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
The stork-like Mr. Abele hunches and cowers; he gibbers his text softly, almost breathlessly; Mr. Sales puts up a little more of a fight with his youthful, higher vocal range, but he too lies down to die. From Wordnik.com. [Futility Finds a (Quiet) Voice] Reference
Unlike pelicans however, the long toes of the Shoebill are unwebbed and it is stork-like in some aspects of behaviour, practicing bill clattering and also dribbling water onto its eggs and young during the heat of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
She winds up standing momentarily on one leg, stork-like. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Global Home] Reference
James made a great effort, and rose to the full height of his stork-like figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
James began walking up and down; he looked strange and stork-like without a coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
He stood, inimitably stork-like, with an expression as if he saw before him a frog too large to swallow. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
Very kind of me to say I won't go, would very much like to see the caped and stork-like wandering minstrel. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The scant, brief skirt fore-shortened her; gave her a stork-like appearance; a combination of girlishness and matronliness not pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
The bird that drew the two nations closer is a strange-looking one, with ared, curved beak, bald head, shaggy black crest and stork-like legs. From Wordnik.com. [WSFA - Around Alabama] Reference
Chomet has even rendered an animated version of Tati as the star of the film, a stork-like middle-aged man in too-short pants and overcoat, with a mournful, resigned gaze. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Her large feet were clad in congress boots; and when she had alighted, she regarded them with deep affection, and slowly wiped them upon either ankle, a stork-like process at which. From Wordnik.com. [Tiverton Tales] Reference
He could be seen on Sundays after Mass, a stork-like figure striding along fashionable Nowy Swiat with a tiny packet of cake from Blikle, the best patissier, dangling from his gloved finger. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
Mr.. Mountstuart Jenkinson in Mr. George Meredith's novel might pass by at any moment, and seeing me in the stork-like attitude would exclaim, with equal admiration and a more literal exactitude. From Wordnik.com. [Tremendous Trifles] Reference
Meantime, the yoga studio near my place of work is quite welcoming of my stork-like attempts at poses, while the lithe, young former female dancers and gymnasts glide from one beautiful form to another. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
So he has taken on carpentry jobs - the only paying work he can find - and today is building a small shed among the houses on Grand Isle, many of which stand on stilts, stork-like, to endure the inevitable floods. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
“He’s stork-like, so when he was trying to get … he had his leg through his frame and my frame into one of my wheels,” said Powers. From Wordnik.com. [Gone in 30 seconds: Jeremy Powers plummets from 1st to 3rd] Reference
A hundred grey stork-like birds marching about gravely, and darting their bills down sharply here and there at some fish or frog in a pool. From Wordnik.com. [First in the Field A Story of New South Wales] Reference
Again, we have a pointed, elongate, overall stork-like rostrum, but again the only figured specimen is apparently squashed flat, so it’s not much use here. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
This is the spanner in the works, because if the skull is strongly compressed laterally, then the skull really isn’t stork-like at all, but probably suited for some other, quite different mode of life. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Its rostrum fragments clearly belonged to a long, pointed (cough - stork-like - cough) rostrum that would have been subtriangular in cross-section, with the flat palate forming the triangle’s base (Nesov 1984). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
As if it stork-like did pretend. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Marvell]
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