Word: beak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days Washington and the U.S. Lave hissed with rumors of WAAC immorality and misconduct, which have made many women reluctant to enlist. O'Donnell gave the rumors wings and beak, reporting the rumors and then refuting them in such a way as to leave doubt whether he was taking it back...
...White Bear" answered. The little man tightened the dark scarf around his neck, tugged the broken beak of his cap over his eyes and went out into the rain. With him floated the ropey smell of cheap twist and stale beer. Snatches of conversation flickered around the low-ceilinged room...
...Sparrow, a human sort of bird who is forever quarreling with Mrs. Sparrow over trivial war annoyances. Each week, after a tiff, he flies off in a fret to his club or the Other Sparrow while a tear trickles down Mrs. Sparrow's beak...
Caparisoned in a tank-corps beret, ensconced in a tank, the avenging Montgomery rode on deep and dangerous tours of the battlefield, his pale blue eyes and his thin beak of a nose turned west, farther west. Methodically, ruthlessly, he followed up the bloody, broken trail of the Afrika Korps...
Debtor. In Paducah, Ky., a robin to whom E. N. Smith had fed crumbs every day turned up at the back door with a dollar bill in its beak, dropped it on the porch, flew...