The serpent shrieked, and the sound was deafening; its awful wings arched and quivered, and clawed feet raked the air.

The male selects the nest site which he shows to the female while posturing with raised back feathers, wings arched over his back, tail spread and bill pointed vertically downwards.

Imagine twenty of those lovely Mist ships, the wings arched over the small bodies, black against the darkness of space.

F'lar watched as the flyers obediently began a downward glide, the queen's wings arching and curving as she slowed her tremendous forward speed.

And as Riane watched, stupefied, the gyreagle morphed into a magnificent green Dragon, its great sealed wings arched, its golden eyes holding her gaze.

Behind it were ships more familiar to him in raw form, more like the green dawn silhouettes of creatures in hunting flight, heads down, wings arched, muscles tight and tucked.

He dealt the Muslim's bird a glancing blow with the hook of his beak, then rose up, wings arched, and fell heavily on the lighter bird's head.

Then he rose and stretched, his transparent wings arching over his head before he shook and folded them tightly along his spine.

The female may perform a 'bowed-wing display' where the wings and tail are spread and quivered, with the wings arched and the head pointing down.

From each side of the tensil, great folded wings arched upward like golden cowls trailing long flight feathers in alabaster cascades that reached all the way to the floor.