Sentence examples for form of a bird from inspiring English sources

Thunderbird, in North American Indian mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird.

In Dickinson's poem, hope in the form of a bird is omnipresent and self-sustaining.

They sometimes imagine that the deceased has appeared to them, in the form of a bird, say, or a cat.

The altar may be round or oblong or may imitate other forms, such as the Indian Vedic altar, which was made in the form of a bird with spread wings.

His journey occurs through magical flight (frequently in the form of a bird) with animal psychopomps (soul conductors) or guardians or by ascending the sacred tree that connects heaven and earth.

Mr Maduro, a former bus driver, rose through the ranks by offering Chávez unconditional loyalty; he won the presidency by invoking the comandante's ghost (once claiming to have been visited by the late president in the form of a bird).

Throughout, Kahlo's distinctive eyebrows join to form the shape of a bird in flight.

Photo: Performers, suspended by wires, preparing to form the shape of a bird during the opening ceremony of the Turin Games.

He claimed Chávez's spirit visited him in the form of a little bird.

At one point, he told a crowd that Chávez had come to him as a spirit, in the form of "a little bird".

But he may be the first to say that his political mentor, President Hugo Chávez, visited him from beyond the grave in the form of a little bird.