It was a crow, with a wingspread of at least two feet. From Wordnik.com. [Ask the Cards a Question]
Size - length of bird from bill to tail and wingspread. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
The largest of these has a wingspread of nearly three meters, but is very lightly built. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
Don went down in the Cyrus Buchanan, a trim little craft of hardly three hundred feet wingspread. From Wordnik.com. [Between Planets]
Magically, the beasts filed in, the greater wingspread of Mnementh just clearing the sides of the entrance. From Wordnik.com. [DragonFlight]
Whether their kind possesses the wingspread of a Lucifer or a moth is a question better left to theologians. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
This is because the size, weight and shape of his body in relation to the total wingspread make flying impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Sign, General Motors] Reference
A great black shape with a wingspread so wide it could not be measured except that it seemed to fill the entire sky. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
The most spectacular of our native wading birds, the whooping crane stands about five feet tall and has a wingspread of nearly eight. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
Gord's shortsword was a puny pin against a creature with a wingspread of more than sixty feet and strength sufficient to lift an elephant. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
Within seconds an Air Force C-141 Starlifter came into view, its behemoth body and extensive wingspread a portrait of camouflage-painted beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Honorbound]
The only eagles that had ever carried off lambs were Kaled'a'in-bred bondbirds, who had the required wingspread and muscle mass, and carried them off at the behest of their bondmates. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
Pteranodons were flying reptiles (pterosaurs) that were about 6 feet (1.8 m) long, had a 25-33 foot (7. 8-10 m) wingspread, and weighed about 35 pounds; its standing height was about 6 feet (1.8 m). From Wordnik.com. [Pteranodon/Pterosaur Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models] Reference
There is a large variety of arthropods, including eight-legged insectlike forms of all sizes, up to a pseudo dragonfly with two pairs of wings and a wingspread which has been recorded at 86.5 cm. maximum. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
And so it did not upset him at all when a handsome reddish-brown horse with the wingspread of a DC-3 came soaring through the air, circled above the car a couple of times, and made a neat landing on the highway alongside him. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
Even the smallest bird kicked up quite a bit of water when bathing; when a gryphon (twice the size of a war-horse, with a wingspread wide enough to shelter a small house) decided to take a bath, it tended to drench anyone within five or six furlongs. From Wordnik.com. [Elephant in the City] Reference
Let's compare this to the wingspread of other large birds we have in Central. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Of course I wear a mask: Amitabh Bachchan] Reference
They reach up to a length 36 inches with a wingspread of 54 inches and weigh 4 to 6 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
The osprey, a water-loving, eagle-like hawk, is a spectacular bird with a wingspread of 5 to 6 feet. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Of course I wear a mask: Amitabh Bachchan] Reference
He was a hulking mass of hulking brown and gray feathers with dark bars, 4-plus pounds with a wingspread of 4-plus feet. From Wordnik.com. [MailTribune.com Latest Headlines] Reference
He has a new machine, I hear, with great engines and a short wingspread, but the wings so cambered that he can climb fast. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
Thus there was need for greater engine power, bigger wingspread to support the floats, and fuel tanks of greater capacity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Aeronautics] Reference
Death, like a furry brown bat with a wingspread as wide as a pterodactyl's, review of Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe. From Wordnik.com. [bookforum.com] Reference
It was a very fast, light little machine but was difficult to fly, and owing to its small wingspread was unable to glide at a reasonably safe angle. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Aeronautics] Reference
So the Boston team used the Brazilian free-tails 'average 0. 28-meter wingspread to model how many bat wing-beat "spheres" would fit through the cavern in a minute. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
It was fitted with a 120 horse-power Austro-Daimler engine, and was characterised by an exceptionally wide range of speed -- the great wingspread gave a slow landing speed. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Aeronautics] Reference
He saw a mighty fleet whose individual planes were a mile long, with three-quarters of a mile wingspread -- titanic monoplanes, whose droning thunder seemed to roar through all space. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Star Passes] Reference
The wingspread of these birds is eleven feet -- no wonder many of the stories of strange doin’s include big birds. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
The Times worked the angle, adding that the Vimy’s wingspread was 67 feet—digits that added up to 13—and it carried 871 gallons of fuel, which was close to 67 times 13. From Wordnik.com. [Savage Peace] Reference
It probably has a tremendous wingspread and a very high angle of incidence to make it possible to glide at that height, and the engine and prop will be almost laughably small. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Star Passes] Reference
Formed some kind of friendshi with him and every morning when I would go down to feed the duck, as I neared the pond, the heron would slowly take flight – a seemingly huge wingspread – silently through the mist. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread] Reference
154 TOM SWIFT AND HIS FLYING LAB ever see such a wingspread?. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift Jr And His Flying Lab]
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