Set low down under the sphere, with the whitish-gray mass beetling up over them like a curving cliff, were eyes; great, staring, dull things of the type termites have during the short-winged periods of their existences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Raid on the Termites] Reference

What a strong contrast to long-legged, relatively short-winged pterodactyloids like the azhdarchids.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science]

In front of it several short-winged biplanes are lined up; inside it three or four young men are lolling in wicker chairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

Gibraltar, some of those short-winged English summer birds of passage, concerning whose departure we have made so much inquiry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

Individuals also have two distinct wing morphs, a short-winged flightless morph and a long-winged morph that has the ability to disperse.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The vet advised us not to clip, since they're rather heavy, short-winged birds and can hurt themselves badly if they fall and can't brake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Never in my experience has there been a worse spring season than that of 1903 for the birds, more especially for the short-winged migrants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afoot in England] Reference

As to the short-winged, soft-billed birds, which come trooping in such numbers in the spring, I am at a loss even what to suspect about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

They are lumpish and short-winged on the street; they labor and lumber off with a sidewise twist to their bodies that reminds one of a rheumatic old dog upon the trot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roof and Meadow] Reference

The clumsy and short-winged birds, when they cast themselves out of their places, fall down at first a good way before they get "sufficient air" under their wings to be able to fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

Your account of the greater brambling, or snow-fleck, is very amusing; and strange it is that such a short-winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

Which his father Grangousier seeing, thought they had been lice, and said unto him, What, my dear son, hast thou brought us this far some short-winged hawks of the college of Montague?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

You are to note, that they are usually distinguished into two kinds; namely, the long-winged, and the short-winged Hawk: of the first kind, there be chiefly in use amongst us in this nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Angler]

But, in others, the hind limbs elongate and the fore limbs shorten, until their relative proportions approach those which are observed in the short-winged, flightless, ostrich tribe among birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Evolution] Reference

But, in others, the hind-limbs elongate and the fore-limbs shorten, until their relative proportions approach those which are observed in the short-winged, flightless, ostrich tribe among birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

What between the wretched diet, the filth, the cold, the crowding, "the short-winged hawks" that the students combed from their hair or shook from their shirts, it is no wonder that many of them fell ill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of the Reformation] Reference

Hasselquist says on that subject is remarkable; there were little short-winged birds frequently coming on board his ship all the way from our channel quite up to the Levant, especially before squally weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

It is therefore no mean discovery, I think, to find that our small short-winged summer birds of passage are to be seen spring and autumn on the very skirts of Europe; it is presumptive proof of their emigrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

For some time past, she had devoted her time to training a beautiful marsh-hawk, a bird resembling the short-winged hawk known by the name of the hen-harrier in the old books, and had nurtured it with her own hand from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

As I had hardly ever before travelled these downs at so late a season of the year, I was determined to keep as sharp a look-out as possible so near the southern coast, with respect to the summer short-winged birds of passage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference

Now he learnt that the gosshawk is a short-winged hawk, which does not go up in the air, and get at pitch, and stoop at its prey like the peregrine, but flies directly after it, capturing by speed of wing, and is used principally for ground game, rabbits, and hares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

Stanley's classes, the Grebes placed among the short-winged birds, and made to include all the divers; but he does not say how short their wings are; and his grouping them with guillemots and puffins is entirely absurd, all their ways and looks, and abodes, being those of ducks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference

As I rode along near the coast I kept a very sharp look-out in the lanes and woods, hoping I might, at this time of the year, have discovered some of the summer short-winged birds of passage crowding towards the coast in order for their departure: but it was very extraordinary that I never saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference

Zealand and Mauritius far from all land, it vas safer for a ground-feeding bird not to fly at all, and the short-winged individuals continually surviving, prepared the way for a wingless group of birds; in a vast Archipelago thickly strewn with islands and islets it was advantageous to be able occasionally to migrate, arid thus the long and strong-winged varieties maintained their existence longest, and ultimately supplanted all others, and spread the race over the whole Archipelago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

It was the volume dealing with short-winged hawks and buzzards. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference

Mauritius far from all land, it was safer for a ground-feeding bird not to fly at all, and the short-winged individuals continually surviving, prepared the way for a wingless group of birds; in a vast Archipelago thickly strewn with islands and islets it was advantageous to be able occasionally to migrate, and thus the long and strong-winged varieties maintained their existence longest, and ultimately supplanted all others, and spread the race over the whole Archipelago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

And there is of short-winged Hawks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

Earthly hopes are necessarily short-winged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

" And there is of short-winged Hawks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Angler]