Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

The rest of the crew offsaddled their mounts and turned them into the remuda.

After their supper, the evening turned into a regular `` Hoe-Down ''.

the car's far windshield panel turned into a silver web with a dark hole in the center.

His four weeks in Italy had turned into nearer three months.

It speared up into the air, then sinking back, the up-jutting branch turned slowly.

The dreary camp at Valley Forge was turned into an arena of rejoicing.

From an exercise involving merely raucous, rough-and-tumble comedy, in his hands the performance turned into a revel of wit and word play, indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and carefully aimed at some individuals present, and at the whole assembly.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

then they turned to the right, climbed the embankment, and walked into the valley again.

His being and His will -- Stevie could not divide God from his Papa -- illumined every parish face, turned the choir into a band of angels, and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven.

The Death's-Head Corps took in Ukrainian and Baltic Auxiliaries, and the Einsatzkommandos waded knee-deep in blood and turned into drunken, dope-ridden maniacs.

She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty-legged escritoire, warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea spray.

She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.

As it turned out, Jessica took matters into her own hands.

There the bus turned right along the Bosphorus, past ocean liners at anchor, to Galata Bridge over the entrance to the Golden Horn, a brown sweep of water that empties into the Bosphorus.

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.

As the bus turned into the main highway and headed toward Hanover I settled back in my seat and closed my eyes, thinking over the events of the past two weeks, trying to put the pieces in order.

And Jarrodsville was more than three miles away, down an old dirt road that the rain had turned into a quagmire.

Then he turned the telephone over to Rourke, and went into the bedroom to change his slippers for dry socks and shoes.

The women wore the skin of seal or sea-otter and the men wore bird skin parkas, the feathers turned in or out depending on the weather.

The wrathful goddess turned her into a crane and proclaimed that her bird descendants should wage eternal war on the Pygmy folk.

In 2006, scientists researching the ancestry of birds " turned on " a chicken recessive gene, talpid2, and found that the embryo jaws initiated formation of teeth, like those found in ancient bird fossils.

In an early account, Sophocles wrote that Tereus was turned into a big-beaked bird whom some say is a hawk while a number of retellings and other works ( including Aristophanes ' ancient comedy, The Birds ) hold that Tereus was instead changed into a hoopoe.

He turned into a bird ; she became a hawk.

Barn Elms reservoirs were turned into a wetland habitat and bird sanctuary in 1995.

But one of his bird friends, the fantail, laughed at the ridiculousness of the situation, seeing Māui turned into a worm squirming to enter the goddess, and woke her.

After defeating the wizard ( who had turned into a bird ), by turning into a cat and eating him ; He rescued the princess, returned to the village of Serenia, and received a junior-master adventure certificate.

A species of fossil duck from the Late Pleistocene of Vero Beach, Florida, was described as Querquedula floridana ( a genus now included in Anas ), but upon reexamination turned out to be a species closely related to the Hooded Merganser ; it is now named Lophodytes floridanus, but the exact relationship between this bird and the modern species is unknown.

His campaign help for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( CDU ) prompted some of his former comrades to call him a Wryneck ( German term: Wendehals ; a bird that can turn its head 180 degrees ; popular term used to mock Communists who have turned capitalist ).

In northern Europe the artistic discourse on sodomy was turned against its proponents by artists such as Rembrandt, who in his Rape of Ganymede no longer depicted Ganymede as a willing youth, but as a squalling baby attacked by a rapacious bird of prey.

Yavaud had turned himself into a human being for the purpose of hiding, like Ged turned into a bird in A Wizard of Earthsea and Festin into a fish in The Word of Unbinding, and there is no suggestion that being human was in any way an inherent nature for him.

Additionally, around 1900 a Chinese hunter offered a specimen to a Peking University professor, but, as the professor did not realize how rare the bird was, was turned down.

Hummingbird top fill feeders are popular among bird lovers because they are easy to fill and clean and also because they do not need to be turned upright which means that there are less chances that the nectar is spilled.

This type of bird feeder has the advantage that the feeder does not need to be turned upside down to be refilled and which results in less nectar wasted by spilling.

Thus Ashkenazi Jews turned to poultry fat as their cooking fat of choice ; the overfeeding of geese to produce more fat per bird produced Modern Europe's first foie gras as a side effect.

Audubon Society members have turned the island into a favorite spot for bird watching.

In the early 1980s, the area was subsequently turned into Harrold-Odell Country Park, popular with runners, dog-walkers and bird spotters.

When he spread an accusation against an old woman who was a fairy in disguise, she turned him into a noisy, wandering bird.

In April 2004, the then New York State Governor George Pataki, announced that of Thacher Park and nearby Thompson Lake were to be turned into a bird conservation area.

After death his soul turned into a great white bird and flew away.