Adjective : a vulturine critic. From Dictionary.com.
A smallish man with vulturine features framed by thick grey hair opened the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Wind]
I then shot at Jamadagni's car a hundred straight arrows winged with vulturine feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Bhimasena shot at the Suta's son four and ten long shafts equipped with vulturine feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Let a large number of carts bear my long shafts and those that are winged with vulturine feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Let as many cars as thou wishest bear thy long shafts and arrows equipped with vulturine feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Arjuna -- that slayer of hostile heroes, by means of sharp and straight arrows furnished with vulturine wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
A trio of hard-faced, vulturine men, they seemed both surprised and suspicious when they saw her beside Tonno's bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
Today, with my straight shafts equipped with vulturine feathers, I will, O Govinda, cause the earth to be strewn with. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Shafts equipped with vulturine feathers, shot by those two heroes, looked like rows of excited cranes in the autumn sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
With golden arrows furnished with vulturine wings shot on all sides, let the firmament seem today to swarm with fire-flies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
And in that battle, it was Rama who struck me first with nine hundred and sixty straight arrows furnished with vulturine wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The fierce arrows shot from the Gandiva, endued with great energy and furnished with vulturine wings, car, pierce even mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Duryodhana then pierced that great bowman Bhima with ten shafts winged with vulturine feathers, adorned with gold, and whetted on stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Vibhatsu, laughing aloud, cut off with an arrow of keen edge and furnished with vulturine wings, the bow of Bhishma, that hero of solar effulgence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Then Drona, with a sharp razor-faced arrow winged with vulturine feathers, cut off the middle of the bow of that mighty warrior struggling in battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Then Yudhishthira also, filled with wrath, and the two sons of Madri, began to slay those elephant-warriors with arrows equipped with vulturine wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
That mighty bowman then (Yuyudhana), pierced Duhsasana, in return, with five straight and sharp arrows equipped with golden wings and vulturine feather. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Arjuna then with many shafts of his equipt with vulturine feathers cut off into fragments, that mace of his advancing foe which was adorned with bright gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Just as Tannim had said, there were things lurking about the pimps, vulturine creatures of shifting shape and shadow, watching and waiting with infinite patience. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
Who owneth these large shafts, so thick, furnished with vulturine wings whetted on stone, yellowish in hue, sharp-pointed, well-tempered, and entirely made of iron?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Indeed, with shafts furnished with golden wings and vulturine feathers and endued with great energy, with barbed arrows, and nalikas, and long shafts, he covered the hostile host. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
OW OW psittacine parrot 1888 - vulturine vulture 1647. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1] Reference
Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
We're learning about the vulturine guinea fowl from the Wild Animal Park's Marco Preciado. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
I am not advocating a trick - to pretend to be a pilgrim to spice up your vulturine culture diet. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Usually it keeps to rocky hills and mountains, over which it beats with a steady, sailing, vulturine flight. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
First off, Obama's "team" is comprised of a bunch of vulturine crooks; they fall very short of a cabinet fit for "change.". From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
Mansana till the captain's vulturine visage was scowling close beside his own, and he could feel his hot breath on his cheek. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands] Reference
But he was more interested in her husband, a dark dry man, with big eyes, sallow complexion, prominent chin, and vulturine nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete] Reference
One such level involves defending oneself from these creepy, vulturine / pterodactyl critters that fly at one from all directions. From Wordnik.com. [LutheranChik's "L" Word Diary] Reference
Ruthven stood forward from the group, his reeking poniard clutched in his right hand, a grin distorting his ghastly, vulturine face. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
But the virtuous critic, after the alleged nature of the vulturine kind, would appear to have eyes and ears and nose for nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference
Hume once demolished one of these vulturine nurseries and found that it weighed over eight maunds, that is to say about six hundredweight. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
As her children came along they too were gathered under Lucius Decumius’s vulturine wing. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
He shook his vulturine head angrily. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
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