What is "ostriches"

Usage examples of "ostriches".

Naturally of an energetic and hard-working temperament, he very soon fell more or less into the swing of the thing, and at the end of six weeks began to talk quite learnedly of cattle and ostriches and sweet and sour veldt.

And sometimes at his banquets he served ostriches, saying that the Jews had been commanded to eat them.

At one dinner where there were many tables he brought in the heads of six hundred ostriches in order that the brains might be eaten.

While the ostriches gobble their meal, she fills a bucket of water from the goldfish pond out back.

The ostriches vanish into the forest as surely as they had fallen into a river with weights on their knotty legs.

Though they were larger than later mammalian equivalents like wildebeest or antelope, they walked on two legs like outsized ostriches, their strides long, their heads bobbing.

Bent-Anat in her litter, he inspected the thousand decorated bulls and antelopes which were to be slaughtered as a thank-offering to the Gods, the tame lions and leopards, the rare trees in whose branches perched gaily-colored birds, the giraffes, and chariots to which ostriches were harnessed, which all marched past him in a long array.