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roosting example sentences
roosting
1. My limbs had been torn from my body, my entrails were in the bellies of dactyl's roosting in the swamps of the Ttharmine
2. Both islands and cliffs provided roosting spaces for thousands of
3. entire aperture had been sealed with chicken wire to stop pigeons roosting
4. of the window at the roosting birds
5. I would have to work my way around the back side of the house, sticking to the backs of the trees around the house, and then, down by the roosting pines, to the other side of the garage
6. Scram steamed a Chevy Suburban, roosting the wheels in a world
7. Elise had spent two years at the university studying psychology before she went into nursing and now those long forgotten studies of psychotic behavior dropped into her mind, jarred loose from their occult roosting place in her subconscious
8. The ground under the silently moving Indian suddenly exploded in a flurry of dewdrops, leaves and grass as a covey of roosting quail tried to escape the silent danger that had snuck up on them
9. Instead he opted to sneak up behind the lil bomber still roosting in the gur-
10. Father shrugged again, and sunk into his loose collar like a roosting chicken into its feathers
11. Now, roosting by his wife, Silas surveyed the spring evening, thinking no thoughts at all
12. While if he headed back to the office on the motor-cycle, he would be roosting on top of the narrow seat for many minutes, the sharp whine of the small motor all around him, the cold wind hissing past his ears, and advancing at a depressingly low speed
13. to see moonlight shining on the chests of several pigeons roosting
14. This is a roosting hall, said the dragon in a satisfied tone
15. Without the wards on the bookstore to keep them at bay—Barrons said it would take weeks to collect more of the necessary ingredients—my grim stalkers huddle close, pressed to three sides of the bed, on the fourth roosting atop the headboard, bony shoulders hunched upward, swallowing their heads and necks
16. I skimmed around for the watchman, a-wondering whereabouts he slept; and by and by I found him roosting on the bitts forward, with his head down between his knees
17. There was empty drygoods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives; and chawing tobacco,
18. Above them rose the primeval yews and oaks of The Chase, in which there poised gentle roosting birds in their last nap; and about them stole the hopping rabbits and hares
19. They were staring down at an outbuilding in the back garden, whose roof, Charlie saw, was covered not with snow, but with roosting birds
20. Though he was thinking of gardening, not of roosting like a bird, nor of trying to walk like a spider
21. Migrant minds, capable of roosting in wired machines
22. Signs: Roosting colonies easy to spot, often in caves, fruit bats also in trees
23. Place the stick in a favourite roosting or nesting spot with the nooses uppermost
24. At the cypress tree the roosting turkeys chattered a little in alarm, and the two good dogs responded to their duty and came charging out, barking to frighten away the coyotes they thought were prowling under the tree
25. Would the just-hatched young sometimes adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground and thus get transported? It occurred to me that land-shells, when hybernating and having a membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell, might be floated in chinks of drifted timber across moderately wide arms of the sea
26. “Plug” Ivory Buck sat outside the door of his “emporium” in Smyrna Corner, his chair tipped back comfortably, ankle roosting across his knee, his fuzzy stovepipe hat on the back of his head
