It looked as though it had stepped directly out of the Jurassic Period into our time: perhaps four feet tall, pterodactyl-like, with a long wicked beak.

With a startled cry, he flung himself to the side as the wicked beak stabbed for his eyes.

A wicked beak dived at Belwar.

At his laser-focus eyes, at his wicked beak and sharp talons.

The white owl, its eyes seeming to observe them all with intelligence, snapped its wicked beak as Takya stared back at it.

A wounded, hurting creature - one thrust, one chop of that wicked beak... But nothing happened.

I recognized both of those by their wicked beaks, which the warriors of some coastal tribes use for weapons.

Suddenly a large raven poked its villainous black head round the spiral and seized Rollo by the nightshirt in its wicked beak.

It reached out with its wicked beak and gently nibbled at her upper lip before resuming its preening.

The wicked beak snatched the morsel out of the air; it disappeared.