Not only can the laser target a mosquito, it can also tell a male from a female based on wing-beat. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Since you discussed the way the flight is accomplished I guess my question is...with the crowd around will we see the effects of the wing-beat drafts on the surroundings? ❋ James Gurney (2009)
Approaching gobblers will typically confront the jake first, face-to-face, intending to wing-beat and spur the competition into submission before moving on to the ladies. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But a big hawk, now-he can glide quite a bit, and when he does take a wing-beat, it's slower because his wings are larger. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1995)
Alara followed the faint scent of dragon in the thin, cold air, putting all of her strength into each wing-beat as she sent herself higher and higher into the mountains on the western edge of the Kin's territory. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)
And with every wing-beat, he wanted to sing along with the melodies of well-constructed magery, caroling with joy. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)
-- When two souls come together, each seeking to magnify the other, each in subordinate sense worshiping the other, each help the other; the two flying together so that each wing-beat of the one helps each wing-beat of the other -- when two souls come together thus, they are lovers. ❋ B. G. Jefferis (N/A)
She told me that Swallows had to fly one wing-beat at a time, and that dinners had to be eaten one mouthful at a time, and that nothing really worth while could be done in a minute. ❋ Clara Dillingham Pierson (N/A)
There was sudden movement - the ring of whipped-out metal - a bird's wing-beat - as fifteen hundred hilts rose all together to as many lips ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1914)
Then with reference to the resistance to the air of the wings he explains: 'The air when struck offers resistance by its elastic virtue through which the particles of the air compressed by the wing-beat strive to expand again. ❋ Evelyn Charles Vivian (1914)
All her hopes dissolved, and she was conscious of sitting rigidly, with high head and straight lips, while the irresistible word fled with a last wing-beat into the golden mist of her illusions ... ❋ Unknown (1912)
Arnaux turned neither right nor left, nor raised nor lowered his flight, nor lost a wing-beat. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
If the intruder failed to register respect, and came on, the gander would seize the offender with his beak, and furiously wing-beat him into flight. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
Its flight is accompanied neither by the incessant wing-beat of the bat, the jump of the locust, nor the buzz of the wasp, but carries it easily in any direction. ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)
The afternoon had been all that a summer afternoon on the brown highlands can be, and the powerful touring car had swept them from mile to mile over the dun hills like an earth-skimming dragon whose wing-beat was the muffled, explosive thud of the motor. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
Gulls and albatrosses, strong, glad life in the midst of the stormy beauty, skimmed the waves against the wind, seemingly without effort, oftentimes flying nearly a mile without a single wing-beat, gracefully swaying from side to side and tracing the curves of the briny water hills with the finest precision, now and then just grazing the highest. ❋ John Muir (1876)
Some of the graceful birds lifted them, and ran a little before leaving the ground, and all of them left both legs hanging, and both feet jerking awkwardly at every wing-beat, for a few moments on starting, before they carefully drew each flesh-colored foot up into its feather pillow, ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
"Like a living jewel he sits and sings;" and when he had finished his frugal meal, departing, if nothing hurried him, with a graceful, loitering flight, in which each wing-beat seemed to carry him but a few inches forward, and leave his body poised, an infinitesimal second for another beat. ❋ Olive Thorne Miller (1874)
