Sentence examples for white throat from inspiring English sources

Women are remembered in flashes of whiteness: "Your white throat in the dark, the silent flick" (Le Joueur d'Échecs) or "the white curve of her arm gone from the night" (A Vow) or "tall as a white mast of white pine" (Sentinel).

The plain tail of Eurasian treecreeper differentiates it from bar-tailed treecreeper, which has a distinctive barred tail pattern, and its white throat is an obvious difference from brown-throated treecreeper.

Juveniles, in contrast, possess a white throat and black eye rings.

Researchers at Estació* Biológica de Doñana in Spain discovered that eagle owls communicate using a patch of white throat plumage only visible during vocal displays.

The distinguishing feature of the female is a white eye-ring; her body is a sooty gray-brown, with white throat and white streaked breast.

There was a fierce brown gash down the long white throat of her, and I couldn't stop staring at it, as if it had been made with real violence in mind.

The first round of extinctions included the Lord Howe swamphen or White Gallinule, White-throated pigeon, red-crowned parakeet and the Tasman booby, which were eliminated by visitors and settlers during the nineteenth century either from overhunting for food or protection of crops.

The pink flowers with creamy white throats were small, 2.5-3.8 cm (1-1 1/2 in), but in scale with dwarf plants that naturally grow only 30 cm (12 in) high and up to 45 cm (18 in) across.

But the real star of autumn doesn't start shining until dusk, when the nicotianas pick up their drooping heads, open their white throats and pour perfume into the darkening air.

The vines are tempting, particularly the creeping gloxinias (Asarina scandens), like Joan of Lorraine, a deep violet-blue bell-shaped flower from Mexico, and Sky Blue, with arrowhead-shaped leaves and tubular blue flowers with striped white throats.

Two broad trends were identified: the superb fairy wren (Malurus cyaneus) and white-browed scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis) displayed a tolerance to urbanisation and the eastern yellow robin (Eosaltrica australis) and white throated treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaeus) demonstrated a threshold response to urbanisation.