It makes no difference to her now, Romilly thought, but even so she was grateful that Clea lay in the earth, her body guarded from the fierce beaks of the quarreling kyorebni.

He was the big dark man I had seen on the bridge, full-bearded, with a fierce beak of a nose and thick limbs shrouded in a scarlet cloak.

A fierce beak of a nose, very long and very thin, cut the air in front of him.

Constance narrowly avoided the fierce curved beak but took several scratches from the powerful talons before she stunned the already half-unconscious bird with a smart tap of her paw between its eyes.

"You saved me. . . ." Eydryth lifted a hand to gently touch that fierce beak, star- ing at those dimming eyes.

Skarlath spread his wings wide and tilted his fierce curved beak upward.

It saw the fierce beak descending, was aware of being rended, but no longer felt pain only numb resignation, then a brief moment of shattering pain then nothing, nothing.

Then suddenly out of the whizzing, slate-colored circle a long neck shot out, and a fierce beak made a thrust at us.

All it took was one to discover it for half a dozen to descend, squalling and fighting with raucous cries on the ground outside my window, fierce beaks stabbing.

The ruby-throated hummingbird is a beautiful but prickly little bird, two and a half inches long, with a fierce beak and an aversion to its own species.