Sentence examples for gigantic bird from inspiring English sources

Aepyornis may have given rise to the Arabic legend of the roc, a gigantic bird.

The rambling Zhuangzi opens with a sprightly fable, illustrating the incomprehension of small wildfowl of the majestic splendour of a gigantic bird.

And what the jury believed about Mr. Rosenblatt, who was prone to flap his arms in agitation like some gigantic bird, was that he was mad.

Over a late brunch the next day, he adopts his usual posture of perching, legs drawn under him like a gigantic bird.

Bears, according to the bestiaries, lack mother's milk; hares and hyenas can change sex; only one pair of unicorns exists at a time; and there is a gigantic bird (ziz) that reaches from earth to sky.

Is it a whale – which would make sense given Skaer's Leonora Whale Drawingg) – or is it, as its beaky head with eyeless sockets suggests, an albatross or similarly gigantic bird around whose decomposed body flies now swarm?

Sitting on an object that may be a toilet or a throne, the panel's centerpiece is a gigantic bird-headed monster feasting on human corpses, which he excretes through a cavity below him, into the transparent chamber pot on which he sits.

Then again, many other observers didn't really give a shit about a game featuring a small boy solving environmental puzzles in the company of a gigantic bird-dog-thing, but if...Colossus and its predecessor Ico did it for you on PS2, The Last Guardian will be a day-one purchase.

And it's very pleasant to imagine these gigantic birds enjoying long retirements, perhaps in Florida, where if they are rubbed with oil it's merely to prevent a sunburn.

Roc, also spelled Rukh, Arabic Rukhkh, gigantic legendary bird, said to carry off elephants and other large beasts for food.

The plane's nickname is Roc, after the gigantic mythical bird that carried an elephant in its talons, though Stratolaunch executives are not crazy about it; it sounds like something not known for staying aloft.