Sentence examples for like a falcon from inspiring English sources

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"She looks like a falcon of disco fabulousness.

He bled and moaned for help, and on occasion shrieked an inhuman bird call, like a falcon.

It's just occasionally, you have to hood him like a falcon — so you can get some sleep".

Rampling's hooded gaze has never been so potent: I was reminded of Martin Amis's description of Salman Rushdie: like a falcon looking through a Venetian blind.

Unfortunately for him, they include the Chetnik leader, a woman now called Mila -- beautiful, like a falcon, with "auburn hair, almost iridescent like feathers".

It was a wonderful place, and in the middle of all the splendour was a little old gentleman with a very long black coat and a very long white beard and a hookey nose — like a falcon.

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Watching the strapping, hot-blooded Redgrave try to embody Didion's birdlike, chilly character is rather like seeing a falcon impersonate a sparrow.

Watching the strapping, hot-blooded Vanessa Redgrave try to embody Didion's birdlike, chilly character is rather like seeing a falcon impersonate a sparrow.

He added: "It is like having a falcon return to the arm of any person equipped to receive it, instead of to the same static perch every time".

The slimy prosecutor, Machard, for example, looks like a cross between a falcon and, well, a frog.

Madero loses his virginity to María Font — a feral poet with hands "like the talons of a falcon" — and goes on a tear from there.

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