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Usage examples of bats.

The baying was very faint now, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been hovering curiously around it.

After all, in a world where some men could turn into bats and preferred the taste of blood to andouille gumbo, what was one more mystery?

The bats, expansive with blood-bloated bellies, had told him all about the wizard and the witch and their enthralled agents, the cyclopes and the giant worms.

Conan, the giant cyclops roared and used his massive fists like hammers, battering aside men, bats, and Whites foolish enough to get in his way.

You are authorized to create an alliance with any who would aid us: the bats, the Whites, the Webspinners, any or all of them.

Chuntha had kept them empty for reasons of her own, and the bats would do anything to occupy such a vast space.

With the help of a breeding cave full of bats, it should be easy enough.

Here and there a pair were joined together, but for the most part, the hanging bats were still and quiet.

Whites had not been enough to awaken the bats, the gout of blood from the clumsy one certainly was.

Wikkell, one of the Whites screamed, struggling with three bats who had stuck their feeding tubes into him.

Of course by the time the bats found that out, the Harskeel planned to be long gone.

If all of the bats were as gullible as Red, the transaction would be as smooth as a looking glass.

The bats had obviously gotten off somewhere to do something, and he would likely discover that purpose eventually.

After they had finished drinking, all of the bats agreed that it was quite the best-quality meal they had ever had.

The plants had feasted upon the much stupider Whites and bats, and life had been an altogether better proposition than it was under the rule of either witch or wizard.