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  • Whether this occurred during the kingfisher's transit or beforehand is impossible to say.

    BlogGoblin Mercantile Exchange 2010

  • It was a blue sky, as solid blue as a kingfisher's wing, an almost brilliant blue.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • Whether this occurred during the kingfisher's transit or beforehand is impossible to say.

    The Watcher’s Journal (Total Oblivion outtake) | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2009

  • But the odd occasions when you do see what T.S. Eliot called 'the kingfisher's wing flashing light to light' make it all worthwhile.

    'Being Disciples': 2007 Fulcrum Conference Address 2007

  • Amy Carmichael, in today's reading from her devotional book, Edges of His Ways, says that "the same fingers that made the blue of the kingfisher's wings, and every lovely thing on earth," are "putting finishing touches to you and me today."

    Perfected in Him Belinda 2007

  • Amy Carmichael, in today's reading from her devotional book, Edges of His Ways, says that "the same fingers that made the blue of the kingfisher's wings, and every lovely thing on earth," are "putting finishing touches to you and me today."

    Archive 2007-06-01 Susan 2007

  • He'd landed two rainbows, around eight inches each, but even if he'd caught nothing, being alone on this pond surrounded by tall spruce and balsam with only an occasional kingfisher's caw or a fish jumping was enough.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • He'd landed two rainbows, around eight inches each, but even if he'd caught nothing, being alone on this pond surrounded by tall spruce and balsam with only an occasional kingfisher's caw or a fish jumping was enough.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • From her roost the water hen stretched out her purple-green sleek neck, the kingfisher's quick glance shook droplets from his crown, and I thought love would always be that brilliant on the wing and wild.

    From the Greek 1998

  • It was a blue sky, as solid blue as a kingfisher's wing, an almost brilliant blue.

    The Dragons of Chaos Weis, Margaret 1997

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