My first semester at Princeton I had four roommates who resembled no one I'd ever known: Peter, a foppish piano prodigy with a mature, fine-bristled mustache, who dreamed of writing Broadway musical comedies and spent his leisure time in a robe and slippers, smoking Benson and Hedges Menthol 100s and hunching, vulturelike, over his black Steinway, plinking out show tunes about doe-eyed ingenues who'd been seduced and ruined by caddish tycoons. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My first semester at Princeton, I had four roommates, who resembled no one I'd ever known: A foppish piano prodigy with a moustache, who dreamed of writing Broadway musical comedies and spent his free hours in robe and slippers, smoking Benson & Hedges Menthol 100s and hunching, vulturelike, over his piano, plinking out show tunes about doe-eyed ingénues who'd been seduced and ruined by caddish millionaires. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Having survived a number of inconclusive courtships and a null marriage, all under the vulturelike surveillance of his mother, he managed at the end to form some kind of alliance with María Kodama, a devoted young half-Japanese student of his work who was, like him, a "seeker," albeit a more amateur one. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On the viewscreen, two vulturelike warships shimmered into view. ❋ John Vornholt (2000)
It crouched on a massif of basalt, vulturelike on broad talons of stone and cast clay. ❋ King, J. Robert (1999)
Its vulturelike beak snaked down to snare the young man, but Urza was too fast for it. ❋ Grubb, Jeff (1998)
It was in the form of a malformed tarn, its neck crooked, almost vulturelike, the right leg, with its talons, much larger than the left, and outstretched, grasping. ❋ Norman, John (1986)
Like a flash of light he whirled and poised on his toes, his long, evil-looking revolver drawn and cocked, his tense face vulturelike and fierce. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
The passage in particular which Ferrier's dying hand had marked -- he recalled the gleam in Barrington's black eyes as he had listened to it, the instinctive movement in his powerful hand, as though to pounce, vulturelike, on the letter -- and his own qualm of anxiety -- his sudden sense of having gone too far -- his insistence on discretion. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
It becomes irrevocably altered when she senses the vulturelike attitude of journalists who flock to the site of a lost war for reasons of naked professional ambition. ❋ By JANET MASLIN (2010)
Or as the host who hovers, vulturelike, with a garbage bag, waiting for the right moment to snag the crumpled pieces of Christmas wrapping? ❋ By JOYCE WADLER (2010)
