In the far corner of the room, a niche made by the joining of marble walls, his personal altar stood, whitest marble upon which sat a golden image of Quenesti-Pah and the wing-spread platinum image of the Dragon's Lord, E'li, whom some in the outside named Paladine. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2000)
All the bondbirds set up a deafening chorus of replies, converging on the riders from every direction, and taking to their perches to go into full, wing-spread display. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1998)
It stood as tall as Nicholas, but its wing-spread covered half the wall. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1995)
This apparel was to advertise American industry; it was, also, in a homely way to proclaim American liberty since the device on the buttons was that of a wing-spread eagle. ❋ Richard Harwell (1968)
It was true; the pteranodon, a horrid bat-like thing with a wing-spread of fully twenty feet, carried three of the bronzed savages clinging to a sort of harness that encircled its body just back of the crested head. ❋ Harl Vincent (N/A)
One by one the ghoulish muzzles emerged, peered into the darkness, and were satisfied; then the clumsy, ill-balanced bodies, entangled in loose-folded leathern cerements -- the noctule's wing-spread measures a full foot; lastly, the webbed curving triangle of feet and tail. ❋ Douglas English (N/A)
The adult is a white moth, having a wing-spread of an inch or more, appearing in midsummer and laying its egg-cluster on the under side of a leaf. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The adult is a reddish brown moth, having a wing-spread of about one and one-half inches. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
His wing-spread, so to speak, is much larger than that of either Mr. Stokowski or Mr. Toscanini, and he has a greater repertoire of unpredictable motions than both of them put together. ❋ Brower, Harriette (1922)
This was intended to give increased strength and permitted of a greater wing-spread and consequently improved aspect ratio. ❋ Evelyn Charles Vivian (1914)
The only other family of birds running to such extremes is that of the birds of prey, which include at once the stately condor of the Andes with its wing-spread of fifteen feet, and the miniature red-legged falconet of India and adjoining countries, in which the same measurement would scarcely reach as many inches. ❋ Unknown (1894)
Very well, I said, if he could see it plainly in his mind he could give some rough idea of the wing-spread -- how much would it measure from tip to tip? ❋ Unknown (1881)
The local Utes believed the light-colored shale appeared as a wing-spread Thunderbird grabbing a long skinny serpent-like chute rarely visible from below. ❋ Seth Anderson Special To The Daily (2010)
