Gifts in a Christmas carol

Usage examples of swans.

How fine Lonit and Torka were, how perfectly matched and beautiful to behold as the wind gusted fitfully in the fringes of their garments and in their obsidian-black hair- like a pair of rare dark swans, serene and confident in their love for one another.

If not, a stable will have to suffice, though I assume gentlefolk hereabouts ride swans just as they do elsewhere?

Talking swans were one thing, and she almost understood about the moat monster, now that it had been explained to her by Carole, Mistress Raspberry, Jack and Daisy-Esmeralda.

Just as they were getting used to these radical alterations, and thinking everything surely must settle down now, six giant black swans landed on the brand-new moat.

How well she remembered the six little grey destroyers following the old swans over the green-tinged water, that six-yeargone summer of her love!

There were some birds out there on the water--geese or swans or something--ye-es!

At certain times of the year, a dozen swans could be found on the water, but this was the only one that never left.

I took her out in a canoe to a place where we saw thousands of swans clustered together.

Fresh candles and flowering centerpieces appeared as if conjured so that when the crew from the restaurant arrived, they had only to fold linen napkins into the shape of swans to put the finishing touches on the place settings.

In Swan Lake there are all those little swans fluttering around, and one must never allow oneself to become distracted.

In the background, the young swans of the corps de ballet held their motionless pose.

But of the meaning behind the tales, and the great pattern to which swans and geese both belonged, I had said nothing.

A flock of wild swans wheeled up into the air from the gray mists covering the waters of the ornamental lake.

The courtyard of the little swans gave out on a similarly carpeted, white-walled corridor lined with the doorsreal, wooden doors, not curtainsleading to the quarters of the full-fledged concubines.

The white-and-silver door closed behind her, leaving her in a white hallway lit by silver lanterns in the shape of swans, and paved with the purest white marble Alara had ever seen.