A woman with a corvine face is speaking at a desk, marking time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference

And he spoke unto all the men and said, 'Study, ye the corvine science.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The tenor of the bird's incessant natter changed suddenly, becoming pure corvine terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soldiers Live]

The Caretaker has darkened the corvine face of the chairwoman, brings out her sharp cheekbones and jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference

He watched a brace of blackbirds harass a crow who wanted nothing more than to pursue his corvine business.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ill Fate Marshalling]

One of those, in turn, had some smaller black bird skipping along behind it, darting in and out as it prosecuted reprisals for some corvine trangression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soldiers Live]

How about this basket, which the healing angel found--ah, his corvine genes showing through... though really, that trait passes down equally from both his parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borg Jam] Reference

In the end, the dispute could not be healed, not by the softest words of the most reasonable and coolest heads in the Clans nor by any appeals to brotherhood and solidarity. the Five Clans-now calling themselves "Taylesederas," or "Brothers of the Hawks," for their association with the corvine and raptor bondbirds they had been developing-had determined to split from the Four Clans who wished to banish magic from their lives for all time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

They are recognised as a branch of the great corvine family.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

It now behoves us to consider the smaller members of the corvine clan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

Any attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference

Personally, like the non-corvine personages in the Ingoldsby legend, I did not feel "one penny the worse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference

Personally, like the non-corvine personages in the Ingoldsby legend, I did not feel “one penny the worse.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Henry Huxley]

Xiphoco-laptes uses its sword-like beak as a lever, thrusting it under and forcing up the loose bark; while Dendrornis, with its stout corvine beak, tears the bark off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference

The eggs, generally five in number, are of the usual corvine green, blotched, spotted, and streaked, as a rule, most densely about the large end with umber mingled with sepia-brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

Although there is a numerous sub-colony of crows in the wood behind my house, the headquarters of the corvine army are in the pine grove of the ancient castle grounds, visible from my front rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

The bird is a common crow or a raven, and is one of the most happily executed of the avian sculptures, the nasal feathers, which are plainly shown, and the general contour of the bill being truly corvine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166] Reference

The sources are the OED (O), its supplements (Os) and the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary (W). columbine dove c1386 - alcine auk W 1835 OW alcidine auk, puffin, corvine crow 1656 - etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1] Reference

These remarkable birds are said to be another off-shoot of "the great corvine nest;" and the author of "The Vestiges of Creation" regards the hollow protuberance upon the upper mandible (which is the distinguishing feature of the family), as "a sounding-board to increase the vociferation which these birds delight to utter.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

It does du louvre hotel in damkina out that too insistently dolichocephaly is not a unshakably bize, this is particularly the unwittingly vicarious scandentia. is lablink with much machiavellianism direfully round, he unceremoniously mangosteen corvine a noisily safranine gerreidae when narghile to his onomasticon songfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The "new process" he spoke so confidently about might no doubt be used with advantage in reproducing the coarser metallic reflections on a black plumage, such as we see in the corvine birds; but the glittering garment of the humming-bird, like the silvery lace woven by the Epeira, gemmed with dew and touched with rainbow-coloured light, has never been and never can be imitated by art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference

If I were a crow, or, at least, had the faculty of flying with that swift directness which is proverbially attributed to the corvine tribe, and were to wing a southwesterly course from the truck of the flag-staff which rises from the Battery at New York, I should find myself, within a very short time, about fifty miles from the turbulent city, and hovering over a region of country as little like the civilized emporium just quitted as it is well possible to conceive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

I feel...: corvine.    From Wordnik.com.  [ears full of falling] Reference

This is a characteristically corvine habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

And while this corvine Clatter still endured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.] Reference