Long-legged bird

Usage examples of stork.

Ramses had graduated to long trousers that yearthe sudden elongation of his lower limbs having made that decision advisable on aesthetic if no other groundsand with his curly hair brushed into a rampant crest, he resembled a critical stork.

After all, storks were notoriously myopic, and sometimes misdelivered babies.

Myriads of white storks, of course, but also, as I am credibly informed, the occasional black stork too, God bless her, a bird that I have never yet beheld, a dweller in the plashy forests of the remotest north.

They dropped another level into a ward in which four MSVKsfragile, tripedal stork like beingsdrifted lifeless among loose items of ward equipment.

His sister Rachel defended the stork by claiming that the talent was correctly delivered, it was just that Lija was actually in the wrong place.

Only a few years ago quiet and pleasant, with farmyard muckheaps and a steeple with a stork on it.

He left the naked carcass for the packs of night-prowling hyena and the flocks of vultures, carnivorous storks, kites and crows that would find it with the first light of morning, and set off back towards the colony and the table-topped mountain, silhouetted against the stars.

The pelicans had all gone, the storks too, but the herons were still there, motionless.

The lake turned red, then faded to the dull sheen of beaten metal, and with the dusk the birds came, pelicans, storks, geese, all manner of birds, singly and in flights.

Brunies with the strident little bundle nor the picture-book meadow showed surprise when again something miraculous happened: from the south, from Poland, storks came flying over the meadow with measured wingbeat.

Plus the academics who hated him hated the artificial sets and the chiaroscuro lighting, which the Stork had a total fetish for weird lenses and chiaroscuro.

But then I married Anomie, and summoned the stork, and that set me apart.

Agda gently probed up the birth canal while Getsi watched from behind her, standing like a stork, on one foot, a birthing cloth draped over her right shoulder.

Opposite the Stork there was a bistrot surrounded by piles of wood and sacks of coal.

A former acquaintance said The Mad Stork always used to say cliches earned their status as cliches because they were so obviously true.