It ran, this apocalyptic beast, on two thin legs, and its wings -- were they feathered arms??

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

They were well-planned: vast sections or wings erected were finished in a single stage, rather than in increments.

These colonnades were almost finished in 432 BC and had two wings, the northern one serving as picture gallery.

Four female witnesses waited in the wings to reportedly support Hill's credibility, but they were not called, due to what the Los Angeles Times described as private, compromise deal between " aggressive, gloves-off " Republicans and the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair, Democrat Joe Biden.

The wings and tail section were two feet shorter than the Model 19.

In 1996 Charlie Ellington at Cambridge University showed that vortices created by many insects ’ wings and non-linear effects were a vital source of lift ; vortices and non-linear phenomena are notoriously difficult areas of hydrodynamics, which has made for slow progress in theoretical understanding of insect flight.

" Others appeared to be “ appendages ” which were just birds ' wings blurred by the camera exposure.

It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.

The bodies of the pair were draped around his Rod, which with the wings created the caduceus symbolic of the god.

Fighter armament eventually began to be mounted inside the wings, outside the arc of the propeller, though most designs retained two synchronized machine-guns directly ahead of the pilot where they were more accurate ( that being the strongest part of the structure ).

The wings were only long, rendering the bird flightless.

The neck and legs were short, and the head and wings small.

The wings were only in length and the longest wing feathers were only long.

A large woodpecker was videotaped on 25 April 2004 ; its size, wing pattern at rest and in flight, and white plumage on its back between the wings were cited as evidence that the woodpecker sighted was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.

Zuse built the S1 and S2 computing machines, which were special purpose devices which computed aerodynamic corrections to the wings of radio-controlled flying bombs.

Shortly after taking off from Kansas City, where he had stopped to visit his two sons, Bill and Knute Jr., who were in boarding school there at the Pembroke-Country Day School, one of the Fokker Trimotor aircraft's wings separated in flight.

In 1897 second storey wings were added to ‘ The Grandstand ’, as it was known, increasing capacity to 9, 000 and in 1900 it was lit with electric light.

The traditional helmet wings were changed to a primarily white color, with silver and black accents.

The wings were long and broad.

Like all pterosaurs, the wings of Pterodactylus were formed by a skin and muscle membrane stretching from its elongated fourth finger to its hind limbs.

The idea that pterosaurs were aquatic animals persisted among a minority of scientists as late as 1830, when the German zoologist Johann Georg Wagler published a text on " amphibians " which included an illustration of Pterodactylus using its wings as flippers.

In particular, the fast passage before the camera of an insect flapping its wings has been shown to produce rodlike effects, due to motion blur, if the camera is shooting with relatively long exposure times.

Like the other Falco species, they have long wings as well as a distinctive long tail.

Six fast legs, four well developed folding wings, fairly good eyes, long, well developed antennae ( olfactory ), an omnivorous digestive system, a receptacle for storing sperm, a chitin-based exoskeleton that could support and protect, as well as a form of gizzard and efficient mouth parts, gave it formidable advantages over other herbivorous animals.

It is not known whether pterosaurs practiced any form of parental care, but their ability to fly as soon as they emerged from the egg and the numerous flaplings found in environments far from nests and alongside adults has led most researchers, including Christopher Bennett and David Unwin, to conclude that the young were dependent on their parents for a relatively short period of time, during a period of rapid growth while the wings grew long enough to fly, and then left the nest to fend for themselves, possibly within days of hatching.

Critics of evolution have long challenged proponents to explain how animals initially evolved complex organs such as eyes, hands, or feathered wings.

Notable types of Early medieval spears include the Angon, a throwing spear with a long head similar to the Roman pilum, used by the Franks and Anglo-Saxons and the winged ( or lugged ) spear, which had two prominent wings at the base of the spearhead, either to prevent the spear penetrating too far into an enemy or to aid in spear fencing.

In post-Confederation Canada the terms " Red Tory " and " Blue Tory " have long been used to describe the two wings of the Conservative and previously the Progressive Conservative ( PC ) parties.

The other four defenders traditionally play as two wings, who each cover a sideline, a middle sometimes referred to as a " middle-mid ", " popper d ", or " mid-deep " who covers directly behind the cup for any short throws through or over the cup, and a deep, who covers any long throws by the offense.

Not long after the completion of both wings, the Capitol was partially burned by the British on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812.

On the other hand, eagles in the genus Aquila are found almost strictly in open country, are superlative soarers, and have relatively long wings for their size.

Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds with long wings, short legs and very short bills.

Most have small feet, of little use for walking, and long pointed wings.

Crane fly, with a pair of halteres visible behind the wings as appendages, about as long as the animal's antenna ( biology ) | antennae, with knobs on the end

La Gargouille is said to have been the typical dragon with batlike wings, a long neck, and the ability to breathe fire from its mouth.

For 2012, GT3 cars will be allowed, with spec wings and splitters, as long as they pass a test at the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, thus allowing GT3 cars to run with few modifications relative to other series ( NASCAR, the parent company of Grand-Am, does not permit anti-lock brakes or traction control to be used on Grand-Am GT cars ).

They have long antennae ( 23 – 45 segments ) and long cerci ( 5 – 8 segments ), but no wings.

* Eagles tend to be large birds with long, broad wings and massive feet.

* Kites have long wings and relatively weak legs.

Most use a combination of keen eyesight and hearing to hunt small vertebrates, gliding on their long broad wings and circling low over grasslands and marshes.