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Alan found that a thub egg is almost the size of an ostrich egg
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I saw Lieutenant Jennings off to one side with his hands on his head and his arse stuck up in the air like a bloody ostrich
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"Did he say ostrich?" I checked with Aunt Martha
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It was plain to see that he had no more idea about how to catch an escapee ostrich than Shooter
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"They're going to try and catch the ostrich by chasing it with the police car," an old lady informed him
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The police car took off after the ostrich at high speed and at first it looked as though the show would be over pretty quickly because the police car soon caught up with the ostrich, but as the car drew level with the fleeing bird and Shooter lent over to do his deed with the sock, what happened was reminiscent of the Keystone Cops
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The ostrich plucked the sock from Shooter's hand, deftly flicking the offending object over the roof of the car
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This battle of wits may well have gone on all afternoon had the ostrich not stumbled, which allowed Shooter to grab it by the neck
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The ostrich squawked indignantly and in an effort to dislodge the two policemen, ran headlong through a nearby hedge
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The ostrich stopped at the far edge of the field, looking back at the chaos it had caused and for one moment, I could have sworn it was smiling
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" And sure enough there it was, our ostrich, doing about forty along the white line of the carriageway below
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" I pointed at the ostrich
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One look told me why the ostrich had not stopped running after I'd dropped the sock over its head
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wings and feathers to the ostrich? 14 Which leaves her eggs in the Earth, and warms them in dust, 15 and forgets that the foot may
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Derek’s head was still buried in the sand like an ostrich
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Dropping the box, the man leaped to his feet, flapping his arms and taking prodigious jumps to clear the arrow stub, like a startled ostrich with the gout
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and a giant ostrich feather sprouting from his braided headband
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I reached into the Duat and pul ed out an ostrich feather
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on the ship, and the best he could do was an ostrich feather
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He asked the ostrich, who hid her head in the sand
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“I see an ostrich complex coming on
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'Those were ostrich plumes Zogar Sag wore,' he said
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But face and head were hidden by a monstrous mask, a half-bestial, half-human countenance, from the crest of which floated a mass of ostrich plumes
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decimation of elephants, hippos, ostrich, and rhinoceros in the
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eyes then shoved his face into the carpet, like an ostrich
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Baldrick: I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry
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Ou’s didn’t like ostrich
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Should the man’s heart be proven lighter than an ostrich feather on the scales of jackel-headed Anubis, he would gain entry into the blessed fields of Osiris
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But should the man’s heart be shown to outweigh the ostrich feather, his soul might be cast into a fiery hell or be eaten by the Devouress, a combination creature with the jaws of a crocodile on the
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He avoided eye contact, and retired beneath his blanket, like an ostrich burying his head in the savannah
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Evolutionary speaking, I would have been abandoned by the hunter gathering tribe, left under a tree with an ostrich egg full of water
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The first time this happened his face was a deep dark red colour and he kept his eyes closed, trying to avoid the audience by using ostrich tactics
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To not take correct advantage of it is to be an ostrich
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However, acting as an ostrich burying one’s head in the sand
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In their race to excel and to best the lands of their forebears, Americans had subverted their own native intelligence, such as it was, into a passion for unpleasant-truths-evasion any ostrich would envy
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An ostrich may hide its head in the sand and no one is the worse for it but the one with his head buried
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We also had to buy a regiment belt with a silver belt buckle that had the regiment emblem of three ostrich feathers, together like a bunch of flowers
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This produces the ethic of the ostrich: if incapable, then unresponsible
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They would see me as a hypocrite, for I would be, as it is said, a brave lion before them but an ostrich with its head in the sand, before others
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• Frozen buffalo, ostrich, venison, and other "exotic" lean meats – Yeah, I know, I'm weird, but I can tell you that these are some of the healthiest meats around, and if you're serious about a lean healthy body, these types of meats are much better for you than the mass produced, hormone-pumped beef and pork that's sold at most grocery stores
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For a minute I actually felt good, but I well remembered the misery and sorrow that permeated my life in this house of gloom and doom and like the proverbial ostrich I wanted to stick my head in the sand, pretending that the difficulties in my world no longer existed
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The evil was there, and it was making an ostrich or a vegetable of one's self to go on being calm in the face of it
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The vehicles were ostrich shaped and they were mounted like one would mount a horse
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We dragged in a tame ostrich, the bird
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ostrich and an elephant for the guests, and the scuba diving is
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delayed at the gate by an ostrich that wouldn’t budge
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crowned with ostrich feathers
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There had been no costume for Lida; she simply had a red knitted cap, or rather a night cap that had belonged to Marmeladov, decorated with a broken piece of white ostrich feather, which had been Katerina
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They were both still in their fancy dress; one in a turban, the other in the cap with the ostrich feather
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He carried no arms whatever, nothing but a rosary of beads bigger than fair-sized filberts, each tenth bead being like a moderate ostrich egg; his bearing, his gait, his dignity and imposing presence held me
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For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him; it was his to act, mine to write; we two together make but one, notwithstanding and in spite of that pretended Tordesillesque writer who has ventured or would venture with his great, coarse, ill-trimmed ostrich quill to write the
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His head, on the whole of which the hair had been permitted to grow, the pursuits of war having so long been abandoned, was encircled by a sort of plated diadem, which, in its turn, bore lesser and more glittering ornaments, that sparkled amid the glossy hues of three drooping ostrich feathers, dyed a deep black, in touching contrast to the color of his snow-white locks
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You could have played ostrich and dodged the bullet
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She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers
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I will tell also of the huge bird which chased Challenger to the shelter of the rocks one day—a great running bird, far taller than an ostrich, with a vulture-like neck and cruel head which made it a walking death
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And, curled about the brim of this confection was the perkiest of green ostrich plumes
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It came down the main staircase in pieces, at intervals during the afternoon; huge sections of Rococo, velvet-covered cornice; the twisted, gilt and velvet columns which formed its posts; beams of unpolished wood, made not to be seen, which performed invisible structural functions below the draperies; plumes of dyed feathers, which sprang from gold- mounted ostrich eggs and crowned the canopy; finally, the mattresses with four toiling men to each
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costume for Lida; she simply had a red knitted cap, or rather a night cap that had belonged to Marmeladov, decorated with a broken piece of white ostrich feather, which had been Katerina Ivanovna's grandmother's and had been preserved as a family possession
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’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!’*[2] In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilibin did not forget to pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation
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But there were some carriages waiting, and as soon as Pierre stepped out of the gate the coachmen and the yard porter noticed him and raised their was being looked at he behaved like an ostrich which hides its head in a bush in order not to be seen: he hung his head and quickening his pace went down the street
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Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind
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Much later, hiding his mind in a pile of sand in the sand-box, like an ostrich, Douglas nursed his pain
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Later, hiding his mind in the sandpile like an ostrich, Douglas nursed his dreadful pains
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Bring upstairs Aunt Queen's finest big white satin wrapper-one of the full-length articles with the ostrich feather trim, and a pair of her new heels, very glittery, and hurry
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At last I drew from Aunt Queen's neat lineup exactly the thing: a black satin pinched-waist, deep slashed neck, sleeveless, knee-length dress trimmed in black ostrich feathers down the front and along the hem
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Hildebranda preferred a broad-brimmed hat with ostrich feathers that hung down over her shoulder
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She bought only one hat from Madame Reboux, but on the other hand she filled a trunk with sprigs of artificial cherries, stalks of all the felt flowers she could find, branches of ostrich plumes, crests of peacocks, tailfeathers of Asiatic roosters, entire pheasants, hummingbirds, and a countless variety of exotic birds preserved in midflight, midcall, midagony: everything that had been used in the past twenty years to change the appearance of hats
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An Elizabethan ruff of stiff paper was around his neck, and on his head a Knight Templar’s hat with a white ostrich plume
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Becky had put on her mules with the ostrich feathers
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The ostrich indeed inhabits continents, and is exposed to danger from which it cannot escape by flight, but it can defend itself, by kicking its enemies, as efficiently as many quadrupeds
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We may believe that the progenitor of the ostrich genus had habits like those of the bustard, and that, as the size and weight of its body were increased during successive generations, its legs were used more and its wings less, until they became incapable of flight
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If about a dozen genera of birds were to become extinct, who would have ventured to surmise that birds might have existed which used their wings solely as flappers, like the logger headed duck (Micropterus of Eyton); as fins in the water and as front legs on the land, like the penguin; as sails, like the ostrich; and functionally for no purpose, like the apteryx? Yet the structure of each of these birds is good for it, under the conditions of life to which it is exposed, for each has to live by a struggle: but it is not necessarily the best possible under all possible conditions
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One writer asks, why has not the ostrich acquired the power of flight? But a moment's reflection will show what an enormous supply of food would be necessary to give to this bird of the desert force to move its huge body through the air
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This habit is not very uncommon with the Gallinaceae, and throws some light on the singular instinct of the ostrich
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The instinct, however, of the American ostrich, as in the case of the Molothrus bonariensis, has not as yet been perfected; for a surprising number of eggs lie strewed over the plains, so that in one day's hunting I picked up no less than twenty lost and wasted eggs
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Even the wide interval between birds and reptiles has been shown by the naturalist just quoted to be partially bridged over in the most unexpected manner, on the one hand, by the ostrich and extinct Archeopteryx, and on the other hand by the Compsognathus, one of the Dinosaurians—that group which includes the most gigantic of all terrestrial reptiles
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The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emu, like those inhabiting Africa and Australia under the same latitude
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Rudimentary organs, on the other hand, are either quite useless, such as teeth which never cut through the gums, or almost useless, such as the wings of an ostrich, which serve merely as sails
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Sara stopped arranging the Last Doll's ostrich plumes, and looked thoughtful
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He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints
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She wore a pale-blue, pansy-sprinkled muslin dress with more ruffles than one would ever have supposed economical Janet could be guilty of, and a white leghorn hat with pink roses and three ostrich feathers on it
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There had been no costume for Lida; she simply had a red knitted cap, or rather a night cap that had belonged to Marmeladov, decorated with a broken piece of white ostrich feather, which had been Katerina Ivanovna’s grandmother’s and had been preserved as a family possession
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Everything that we do to make our existence secure is like the act of the ostrich, when she hides her head in the sand, and does not see that her destruction is near
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But we are even more foolish than the ostrich
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’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilíbin did not forget to pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation
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When he felt he was being looked at he behaved like an ostrich which hides its head in a bush in order not to be seen: he hung his head and quickening his pace went down the street
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At the same time, that love in no way hindered her, not only from being averse to parting with her adored husband, but also from desiring to visit Madame Annette’s and order there a lovely cap, a hat trimmed with a magnificent blue ostrich feather, and a blue Venetian velvet bodice which was to expose to the public gaze the snowy, well shaped breast and arms which no one had yet gazed upon except her husband and maids
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, Author of 'In the Land of the Lion and the Ostrich