The giant blue crab that is swooping down on that gecko is known to the people of the University of Massachusetts as Beastcam.
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This is one way to start sheepherding: with a winged adventurer swooping down on a herd of sheep like some avenging technologically-equipped god.
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Catch the two games in your peripheral vision, and your brain could well muddle them up, save for a wyvern swooping down on Geralt.
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Or will this be a squabbling talking-shop of a government, over which Mr Trump will preside watchfully, before swooping down on one side of an argument or another?
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" (published by Knopf in 1962), with Blanche intentionally "nettling" Alfred, provoking him to shout, and Alfred "swooping down on her just as she thought there was an all-clear.
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The aptly named "Hawk" seat AirAsia bought is a sharp, well-designed, bird swooping down on an industry that's past ready for a big shakeup, after decades of compounded consolidation.
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All the statistics I'd tried so hard not to read about egg quality declining sharply in your mid-30s came swooping down on me, re-opening questions I thought I'd put to rest about my suitability to be a mom.
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On the evenings that he chose not to be in the Prefects' Room or swooping down on boys smoking outside the library, he would sit in the main common room, frowning over a chessboard with a headless queen and two missing pawns, which had been replaced with fifty-cent coins.
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It's a doozy, with David Carradine as a grizzled cop and Michael Moriarty as a failed musician/small-time crook with big dreams; the two human protagonists are pitted against each other and a giant winged serpent that's been nesting atop the Chrysler Building and swooping down on Gotham pedestrians for lunch.
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Central prang The temple's central prang has undergone restoration. Original stucco work can be seen, for example Garuda swooping down on nāga. Other mythical creatures as well as lotus are featured. Four Sri Lankan stupas surround the main prang.
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Powerful warriors advancing rapidly on doomed foes are likened to Garuda swooping down on a serpent. Defeated warriors are like snakes beaten down by Garuda. The Mahabharata character Drona uses a military formation named after Garuda. Krishna even carries the image of Garuda on his banner.
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The Pharaoh eagle-owl is nocturnal and emerges at dusk to hunt over an area of about . It will feed on any small creatures it can find including mammals, birds, snakes, lizards, beetles and scorpions. It perches on an eminence and watches and listens so as to detect moving prey before swooping down on its victim. This owl is monogamous and forms a lifelong relationship.
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The fur, long and smooth in most species, can be reddish-brown, blackish, or bright orange-red. They get their common name from their large nose-leafs, which are shaped like horseshoes. The nose-leafs aid in echolocation; horseshoe bats have highly sophisticated echolocation, using constant frequency calls at high duty cycles to detect prey in areas of high environmental clutters. They hunt insects and spiders, swooping down on prey from a perch, or gleaning from foliage.
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Suddenly a large bolt of lightning struck showing an undefined black silhouette that was swooping down on the church. Then it struck the cupola of the church, lighting it brilliantly. All of the tile covering the cupola began to shine with strange lights, allowing the inscription “Gloria a Dios en las alturas y paz en la tierra a los hombres de buena voluntad” (Glory to God in the Highest and peace on earth for men with good will) to be seen clearly. The whole town got down on their knees to pray, fearing that angry demons would destroy the church.
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Until the early 19th century, the names of most Central European Jews consisted of a Hebrew first name, a German second name, the patronymic "ben ... " (son of ...) and, if an upper one, the class - HaCohen (or "Katz") or HaLevy. The German name was chosen to fit the Hebrew one: thus "Zvi" or "Naftali" went with "Hirsch", and "Zev" or "Binjamin" with "Wolf". Those whose given name was Yehoshua, Josua, or Joshua had the second name of Falk, Valk, Walk, Wallik or Wallich. (One theory is that "Falk", here, derives from the German for falcon: just as a falcon circles its prey, so Joshua circled and explored the Holy Land before swooping down on it.
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