aasvogel SAE old use
aasvoel SAE old use

You must get behind them, and fire into their tails, for even an aasvogel cannot see with its tail.

As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist.

Scarcely was this aasvogel down, when others, summoned from the depths of sky, did as he had done.

Presently that something appeared in the shape of an aasvogel which was nearly twice as big as any of the others.

The flying scavengers- they are called aasvogel in the dominant language, vultures in English.

--this aasvogel turned quietly, and began to mount the ladder of the sky in the same fashion as it had descended.

Little green lizards came out and basked in the sun on the tracks, widow-birds flopped among the trees, and a great ugly aasvogel dropped out of the blue sky and had a look at us.

In either event it might prove meat for Sheeta, and so the wary feline stalked by a circuitous route, upon soft, padded feet that gave forth no sound, until the circling aasvogel and his intended prey were upwind.

The aasvogel on watch up there far out of the range of man's vision had seen the deed, and, by sinking downwards, signalled it to his companions that were quartering the sky for fifty miles round; for these birds prey by sight, not by smell.

So we went, and when Hans was a little composed I told him all that I had observed about the habits of the aasvogel in the air, and he told me all that he had observed about their habits on the ground, which, as I might not shoot them sitting, did not interest me.