The bird leaped and Chalker let go.

He pulled his pistol clear and aimed it and the bird leapt into the air.

While she stuffed it into an open mouth, the first bird leaped into the air and climbed in circles until he was almost lost from view.

Finally, the bird turned away from Tyke and Tyke leaped at the small sparrow.

Ylla laid herself back in the canopy and, at a word from her husband, the birds leaped, burning, toward the dark sky, The ribbons tautened, the canopy lifted.

"The birds can leap the abyss," he said.

Every time a little bird ventured near the perch, some blue jay would leap at him like Haystack Calhoun rushing a pipsqueak referee at a wrestling match.

A real fight may ensue, with the birds leaping at each other and pecking, and sometimes kicking.

The bird turned, set herself, and leaped again at Okra.

As he shook it out tiny bright birds leapt from its folds on humming wings.