She was in the kitchen when Esme came home, bringing with her the Thompson boy, Freddie, and Blotto, a dog of assorted ancestry with a long, sweeping tail and a rough coat.

Thus the long neck and the sweeping tail were the progenitors of the crane, which in later time would lift extremely heavy objects by the clever device of running a cable over a pulley and counterbalancing the whole.

Aiah bobs a zigzag course through people dancing on the pavement, then past a group of stilrwalkers, all dressed as fabulous animals with horns and sweeping tails made of soft plastic foam.

A gigantic sweeping tail knocked him aside.

The aged black fisherman could clearly see its lines, the ridges along its extended wings, the long, sweeping tail trailing after it.

Emma, 18 inches long, sleeps free of care (though with the occasional scowl) in her bassinet on the floor, while the dogs threaten the china and glassware with their sweeping tails.

Secondaries are 20-foot tall humanoids with metallic talons, steel teeth and a sweeping tail with stump-like, multi-toed feet.

His open red mouth also spouted fangs, fewer but larger than Rangda's, and behind him lashed a sweeping golden tail.

What could be the point of life without that great sweeping tail that could scatter the stars across the sky, without the dark rumbling tenderness when they slept together after their soaring adventures.

It had a long, sweeping tail, a high, upraised crest, and pale pink feathers as soft as thistledown.