What is "long-tailed"

Usage examples of "long-tailed".

There was only a crested caracara, floating high up on a thermal, long-necked and long-tailed against the bright blue of the desert sky.

And began to call them all by name: As fast as they called the cats, they came There was bob-tailed Tommy and long-tailed Tim, And wall-eyed Jacky and green-eyed Jim, And splay-foot Benny and slim-legged Beau, And Skinny and Squally, and Jerry and Joe, And many another that came at call, It would take too long to count them all.

Short-Tails, misbegotten children of the Matronswho fashioned mechanisms that bound sorcery in ways long lost, who built vast, floating fortresses from which they launched devastating attacks upon their long-tailed kin.

I saw cats-- Tom-cats, Mary Ann cats, long-tailed cats, bob-tailed cats, blind cats, one-eyed cats, wall-eyed cats, cross-eyed cats, gray cats, black cats, white cats, yellow cats, striped cats, spotted cats, tame cats, wild cats, singed cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy and sound asleep.

Hanging from upper windows I saw gilded cages with birds as big as ravens, but more brightly-coloured than kings, long-tailed and hook-beaked, with feathers scarlet and green, jade blue, white, and yellow.

Some again, and principally the long-tailed monkeys, or Guenons, display their teeth, and accompany their malicious grins with a sharp, abrupt, reiterated cry.

We stopped and admired kakas, long-tailed cuckoos and yellow-eyed penguins.

Every man was born with an ego, and they're like the proverbial long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Tad apparently was not only like a cat in his movements, but also as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs as the old saying goes.

It is very just and becoming in a long-tailed cat to have a surname, but it would be very ostentatious, and even dishonorable, in a Manx.

That's what they wanted you for, an' that's why you were all over the neighborhood, walkin' around as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs.

Against the side of the terrace, as if materializing into solidity at that moment, appeared two hundred pounds of supple, rangy, long-tailed cat .

Against the side of the terrace, as if materializing into solidity at that moment, appeared two hundred pounds of supple, rangy, long-tailed cat .

Because, lady, right now I feel as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.

The water was not deep over the road, but I was nervous as the proverbial long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.