Vulture

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  • What was more, the Vulture was available to carry them, two under the wings in the case of the Hs 293 and up to four Fritz X, two underwing and two internally. —  Luftwaffe Victorious
  • As Spidey is looking for the Vulture, an explosion turns Spidey's attention to a nearby bridge and a loaded school bus is perched half on half off the bridge. —  Comic Book Movie
  • The Turkey Vulture, the Black Vulture or Carrion-Crow, and the California Condor make the fields and woods of the country more healthful by devouring the carcasses of animals, and the first two species eat the offal from slaughter houses and even scraps of meat from the markets in some of our Southern cities Illustration: COMMON TERN A close relative of the gulls. —  Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
  • On board the Vulture was the British officer who was treating with Arnold and who now came to arrange terms with him, Major John Andre, Clinton's young adjutant general, a man of attractive personality. —  Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence
  • By and by he met a Vulture, and the Vulture, looking hungrily at the tender morsel before him, said: "Lambikin! —  Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
 

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