Sentences with phrase «pigeons flew»

Passenger Pigeons flew in vast flocks, numbering in the billions, sometimes eclipsing the sun from noon until nightfall.

The Gospel of Thomas (not the one recently discovered in Egypt) reports the childhood of Jesus in a similar vein — a series of miraculous events such as making twelve clay pigeons fly or taking over the first grade at school to lecture on mystical meanings of the alphabet.

If you were the late King Joffrey (which, thankfully, you're not), you'd have a few live pigeons fly right out of the finished pie for showmanship's sake.

We're not quite at the «pigeons flying backwards, Nag's Head eating one another» stage, but still.

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

Rats scurry underground, and pigeons fly away.

A late - film bit of business featuring Trintignant catching and freeing a pigeon flying loose in the apartment has been criticized for its heavy - handedness, but the problem with this expertly directed scene has more to do with whether such a gesture feels tonally earned after so much horror.

Almost all of the humour otherwise involves the pigeons flying into objects and one another and the smelly fat one (Ricky Gervais) burping and flatulating, while a late appearance by a pair of rodent French freedom fighters uncomfortably pings off the parents in the audience's cobwebbed memories of The Rescuers.

In a short flight sequence in the video below, captured by MathChief, British tank driver Edwards is tasked with releasing a pigeon to alert his countrymen that his tank and crew are stuck en route to Cambrai, after which perspective switches to the actual pigeon flying over the battlefield.

«Art is the only place I can bear disappointment,» says Danish artist Tal R, who paints sex shops and dreams of making a clay pigeon fly.

Originally shot in film it shows a sequence of pigeons flying in and out of the image frame; sometimes perched on its bottom edge for a moment, only to be pushed off by another bird; sometimes hurled into the white background.

This vision of the artist as a subversive creator is highlighted in her work Elda för Kråkorna (2008), where Lidén closed off a portion of a New York gallery and opened the space to pigeons flying in from the street.

If ten city pigeons fly into windows or cars, it has no effect on the population of pigeons.

Not exact matches

The horses in the courtyard got up and shook themselves; the hounds jumped about, wagging their tails; the pigeons on the roof drew their heads from under their wings, looked about, and flew out into the country.

Nothing new under the sun You insist on your lies having wings to fly You are still a pigeon The entire MO behind the atheist is to throw out as many lies and see what sticks Debating is the atheists game Satan impregnated Eve with Cain I know you atheists to be fools Christians are on these articles to ensure Jesus Christ's truth is posted Start your walk with Jesus Blinded by satan's lies Test from God.

Clubs in Sam's area fly pigeons over two courses, the southwest and the west.

Young racing pigeons can start flying at 10 weeks of age.

On Thursday, Schneiderman — now the state attorney general — flew to Buffalo to announce a nine - count indictment of Pigeon.

Doesn't look like Pigeon will be able to fly the coop.

There's little prospect of improvement, but at least Republicans will benefit from low expectations: Americans assume Congress can fly no better than a passenger pigeon.

Meanwhile, other researchers have examined how stick insects right themselves in the air after a fall, how owls fly silently and how pigeons navigate turbulence to pick up some aerodynamic tricks for flying robots.

They then recorded the pigeons» brain activity as they flew over familiar terrain.

When it comes to maneuverability, modern flying machines pale in comparison to an everyday pigeon.

The kids then checked the sequences against the database at barcodinglife.org The high schoolers found everything from pigeons and Pomeranians to an invasive latrine fly and what looks to be at least a new subspecies of cockroach.

For their experiments, Williams trained eight pigeons to fly from one perch to another at the opposite end of a long, narrow room.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Often the benefactors of bread crumbs, pigeons don't need the aerial acrobatics of goshawks and other birds that hunt on the fly through forests.

To find out if birds share this ability, Biro and Oxford biologist Takao Sasaki strapped GPS devices on homing pigeons and divided them into three groups: birds homing by themselves, birds flying with the same partner, and birds that switched up their partner every half dozen flights or so.

Immortality may not be in the Cards, but Worms, Flies and Pigeons may be able to Teach us a Thing or Two About Living Better Longer

To address this question, researchers constructed randomized obstacle courses of vertical poles, through which four pigeons — trained to fly between two perches — could traverse.

Yet look up to the rooftops in many of the world's great cities and you will find a league of pigeon lovers — men (almost without exception) who tend and fly pigeons from rooftop coops.

Ken has volunteered to coordinate and consult the «Pigeoners» when the time comes to begin flying new passenger pigeons between spring, summer, and winter aviaries.

John Bender has bred and flown pigeons for over 50 years in southern Ohio, once home to many breeding colonies of passenger pigeons.

If scientists could find a lot more dodo DNA, they might be able to identify the genetic variations that turned the ancestors of dodos — small, flying pigeons — into big flightless birds.

Chinese scientists discovered tiny, protein - based biological compasses in fruit flies that also appear in pigeon, rat, whale, butterfly and human cells.

Earlier this month we sat deep into Utkatasana, Chair Pose, and promised we'd use it as a launching pad pose for something a little fancier: Eka Pada Galavasana, often called Flying Pigeon.

We will start with a targeted warm - up for the body and mind, and then cover headstand, forearmstand, handstand, crow pose, side crow, flying pigeon, and anything else we have time for.

I think inside every Parisian pigeon, there is an inner parrot desperate to fly out!

There is a minor skirmish with Nature in the form of a pigeon that flies in the window, a sad caricature of a Hitchcock bird as well as Poe's raven, which responds in the negative to the question, «Is there balm in Gilead?»

The scored menus give us simple, elegant animated renderings of the pigeons, having them fly behind their rooftop coop on Disc 1 and above the neighborhood skyline on Disc 2.

Get ready to fly because this Walt Disney DVD release includes a Valiant Training Challenge — a video game with three levels of special exercises to become a member of the Royal Homing Pigeon Service.

Haneke makes too fine a point of it by having Georges handle an errant pigeon which has flown into the apartment not by killing it (as would have happened in an earlier movie by the maker of Funny Games) but by gently capturing and freeing it.

«We'll put a router on a pigeon and fly it around the neighborhood if we have to.

Hey, would you believe this, a carrier pigeon has just flown through a window and left us a message.

Towle even crafts several features inspired by the show, including a remote control «pigeon» that really flies, buzzsaw arms, and a periscope rear - view camera.

He thanked you, climbed on his Flying Pigeon and pedalled away.

Yesterday I saw you by the bins, talking to Old Pang the recycling collector, the cart attached to his Flying Pigeon loaded with plastic bottles, scavenged to exchange for a few fen at the recycling bank.

I guess he then attached the article to his carrier pigeon to be flown to the Slate headquarters where some poor clerk inputs it into the computer.

Clay pigeon shooting, formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, is the art of shooting at special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or clay targets, with a shotgun or any type of firearm.

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