The bill was large at long and curved downwards at the top ; the bill also had deep white grooves in both the upper and lower mandibles, up to seven on the upper mandible and twelve on the lower mandible in summer, though there were fewer in winter.

Like all woodpeckers, the ivory-bill has a strong and straight bill and a long, mobile, hard-tipped, barbed tongue.

The items of the " long bill " appear to have been derived from his work.

Tanis may visit Rebekah and tell her that she will vote for Rebekah ’ s bill to recruit more firefighters as long as Rebekah votes for her policy, subsidies for agriculture, in return.

R. T. Gould wrote " A grey seal has a long and surprisingly extensible neck ; it swims with a paddling action ; its colour fits the bill ; and there is nothing surprising in its being seen on the shore of the loch, or crossing a road.

Even a small, female Pteranodon could have reached a depth of at least with its long bill and neck while floating on the surface, and they may have reached even greater depths by plunge-diving into the water from the air like some modern long-winged seabirds.

) The same result with respect to communications by private parties occurred over the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st due to declining cost of long distance telephone communications and the development and explosive spread of electronic mailing (" e-mail " via the Internet ) and bill paying systems had.

The Conservatives then formed a ministry, in which after long Parliamentary debate Disraeli passed the Second Reform Act of 1867, more far-reaching than Gladstone's proposed bill had been.

In the case of some fishing species the bill is long and strongly serrated.

In land-line telephony, AIOD leads are Terminal equipment leads used solely to transmit automatic identified outward dialing ( AIOD ) data from a PBX to the public switched telephone network or to switched service networks ( e. g., EPSCS ), so that a vendor can provide a detailed monthly bill identifying long distance calling usage by individual PBX stations, tie trunks, or the attendant.

A bill of attainder containing a long list of indictments, including treason, heresy, corruption, and plotting to marry Princess Mary, was introduced into the House of Lords a week later, and was passed on 29 June 1540.

Threats of retaliation began long before the bill was enacted into law in June 1930.

The common name cranesbill comes from the shape of the unsprung column, which in some species is long and looks like the bill of a crane.

The process of nest building can take as long as twenty days to complete, during which the bill can be both blunted and shortened.

They are characterized by a long, down-curved bill which is frequently brightly-colored and sometimes has a casque on the upper mandible.

Most hummingbirds have bills that are long and straight or nearly so, but in some species the bill shape is adapted for specialized feeding.

The male Tooth-billed Hummingbird has barracuda-like spikes at the tip of its long, straight bill.

These long feathers hide most of the red bill.

Coke, as Speaker of the House of Commons ( whose job was to introduce any bills ), conducted a delaying campaign, first suggesting that the bill was too long to be read in the morning and then that it be delegated to a committee ; both suggestions were voted down by the Commons.

In Great Britain, the Court of King ’ s Bench was tasked with the duty of supervising all lower courts, and had power to issue all writs necessary for the discharge of that duty ; the justices of that Court appeared to have no discretion as to whether it was heard, as long as an application for a bill of certiorari met established criteria, as it arose from their duty of supervision.

A marlin, family Istiophoridae, is a fish with an elongated body, a spear-like snout or bill, and a long rigid dorsal fin, which extends forward to form a crest.

During the Senate debate of the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Act, Thomas Hoenig wrote Senators Maria Cantwell and John McCain ( the co-sponsors of legislation to reinstate Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 ) supporting a “ substantive debate ” on “ the unintended consequences of leaving investment banking commingled with commercial banking ” and reiterating that he had “ long supported ” reinstating “ Glass-Steagall-type laws ” to separate “ higher risk, often more leveraged, activities of investment banks ” from commercial banking.

In the course of a long and fierce debate Gladstone made a remarkable Home Rule Speech, beseeching parliament to pass the bill.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

he was long past the point of coherent thinking.

`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.