He felt naked to the sky as the bird plunged.

It neared the crown of a great cottonwood, and one or two birds plunged abruptly downward, dying on the wing it seemed, into the branches.

Its predatory head, filled with enormous orange eyes, scans the darkness before the bird plunges downward to the earth.

She got close enough-the frightened bird not even aware of her proximity-and plunged her knife into its back, at the base of the neck.

The remaining two birds, screeching defiant cries, plunged toward him.

The bird plunged with a cry that filled the air-straight toward Gregory.

Then the bird plunged into the mourn.

Then two monkeys fell out of a tree and some low-flying birds plunged into the grass and did not rise again.

On my third try the bird paddled up to the sinking bait and plunged its head underwater to get at it.

The bird plunged at the expanding darkness.