What is "migratory"

Usage examples of "migratory".

Radado formed the western end of a great ancipital migratory route which stretched across the whole of Campannlat, the ultima Thule to which the creatures came in the summer of every Great Year, to go about their unfathomable rituals, or simply to squat motionless, staring across the Cadmer Straits towards Hespagorat, towards a destination unknown to other life forms.

Right through Oldorando and Kace runs the east-west migratory route of the phagors and of the subhuman races, like the Madis.

When the French explorers entered it, it was a valley of aboriginal, anarchic individualism, with little movable spots of barbaric communistic timocracy, as Plato would doubtless have classified those migratory, predatory kingdoms of the hundreds of red kings, contemporary with King Donnacona, whom Cartier found on the St.

Demisiv people, they spent all their lives wading around through the ground, and the whole surface of their sealess planet was one great migratory forest, with mighty bands of trees rooting only briefly and then getting on the move again, hunting other skies to grow under, new ground to grow in.

During the war years, while my father, a Zionist and anti-Fascist volunteer, was in the army, I was brought up by my maternal grandparents in a middling suburb of north-west London, part of the classical migratory route for Ashkenazi Jews who had come over from Russia and Poland and settled in east London in the early part of the century.

When the French explorers entered it, it was a valley of aboriginal, anarchic individualism, with little movable spots of barbaric communistic timocracy, as Plato would doubtless have classified those migratory, predatory kingdoms of the hundreds of red kings, contemporary with King Donnacona, whom Cartier found on the St.

By 1970, forced to adapt their migratory habits to wartime, more than a third of the Hmong in Laos had become refugees within their own country.

Coming from the eastward and northeastward, migratory peoples or groups of peoples, occasional clans or fragments of clans, racially mixed, partially civilized, would enter the Western Sudan in a long procession of invasion and settlement whose ordering and limits practically escape all knowledge.

Thundering Hooves All that day the little scoutcraft followed in the wake of the Yathoon caravan, while the migratory Clan stolidly pursued its southward way.

Perhaps it lies as well in the difference between the autocracy that proved so easily attainable and convenient in small rivervalley settlements surrounded by sand or semidesert, and the tribal democracy or sense of community which inspired these migratory peoples -- peoples who had spread across a continent that knew no natural frontiers, or none which could not easily be crossed.

And then - as the aeons pass and the continents, oceans, mountain ranges and terrain all drift - why are not so many more migratory creatures found to be wildly adrift in their navigation?

These are not substitutes for cleanliness and dryness, but given the well-known migratory tendencies of cockroaches, you may consider trying these methods to keep them away.

This migratory humour is not, however, universal to the Albanians, but applies only to those who go in quest of rural employment, and who are found in a state of servitude among even the Greeks.

The previously unexploited highlands of southeastern Australia began to be visited regularly during the summer, by Aborigines feasting not only on cycad nuts and yams but also on huge hibernating aggregations of a migratory moth called the bogong moth, which tastes like a roasted chestnut when grilled.

They were conspicuous by their clannishness and their inexpensive clothes, often rumpled as a badge of their romantic migratory lives.