What is "carrion crows"

Usage examples of "carrion crows".

Ebrauc will help and gladly, for if we fail to act together in this crisis, the Saxons and Angles and Jutland Danes will peck us to death like carrion crows, one at a time.

The stink of his breath startled Alain badlyit was like the stench that rises off the battlefield, attracting carrion crows.

Some of the skulls had a bit of flesh left, but most had been picked clean by carrion crows still flocking among the buildings.

The thunder of their horses' hooves drowned out the murmured prayers and muttered curses in the western lines, and the hundreds upon hundreds of carrion crows that had roosted in the nearby trees took to the air again.

The leaves of the city are dead, carrion crows peck the bones of the Yilan&egrave.

Now, less than a tenday after its demise, the wyrm looked much like a warrior's corpse left for the carrion crows after a battle.

No, the carrion crows filling the iron-gray sky were there as much for him as for his fallen companions.

The carrion crows wheeled about the gatehouse in raucous unkindness and quarreled upon the ramparts over every eye, screaming and cawing at each other and taking to the air whenever a sentry passed along the battlements.

Weasels will tear out her entrails and carrion crows feast upon her eyes.

Ravens soared through a grey sky on wide black wings, while carrion crows rose from their feasts in furious clouds wherever he set his steps.