He saw seven dark birds take off from a popular tree in the distance, as though frightened by a cat.

Death, streaking through the sky in the shape of a great dark bird.

The engineer took a deep breath, looked away from the dark bird and studied the path.

A dark bird was watching me from one of the trees.

The dark birds swept about them like ashes on the wind.

"And do you see that large, dark bird soaring above the sea?"

The dark bird of her spirit had absorbed his into its own.

High in the air there were flocks of dark birds.

Some looked like the dark birds of death Hakim had called them.

He could imagine that one of the dark birds circling was her.