Birds' resting spots

Usage examples of perches.

They flew up from their perches on and about Ruth and did wild sky-dances, cluttering and bugling in dismay.

Near the finishing perches, nine of which were standing for this race, were the areas reserved for the Administrator, the High Initiate, and members of the High Council.

The same perches that are used in starting the race, incidentally, are the perches which the tarns will take after the race.

Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular “rings,” then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners.

The perches were actually a gigantic, curving framework of tem-wood four stories high, and following the circular wall of the cylinder.

Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room.

He moved over the tem-wood beams until he came to two sets of racing saddles and harness, and he threw me one, indicating a brown, alert racing tarn two perches away.

With Callius wounded and tarns at, or near, their perches, the Steels would have no rider.

My own tarn, if it could be readied at all, could not be brought to the starting perches before the ninth race, that of the Ubar.

Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners.

The whir of wings, a concentration of the musty scent of dragons, and then they were poised above the slightly steaming sands, in the great circle theatre with its tiers of perches for men and beasts.

And the sky emptied of fire-lizards as they rapidly found perches on the tree-ringed beach.

Rocky and Mimic took their accustomed perches on Piemur's shoul ders, while Lazy clung with far from indolent strength to his left forearm.

Her fire lizards whirled into the cavern and sought perches on the curious beams that supported the ceiling, beams that had been fashioned by long-lost skill of the ancients.

He grinned more broadly as the majestic tones echoed through the forest and started a veritable shower of tree-dwelling insects and snakes, shaken from their perches by the unex pected loud reverberations.