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  • A red kite's wingspan is over five feet and so within seconds it had travelled to the far side of the field, alighting in another tree, although all the while I could feel its beady eyes still watching me.

    Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

  • Sam Panthaky/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Bert Maetens, a Belgian kite enthusiast, posed with his kite's camera and remote navigation system at the International Kite Festival in Ahmedabad, Tuesday.

    International Kite Festival 2012

  • A human -- her human, she realized -- clung to the creature's thrashing tail, snap - ping like a weight on a kite's streamer.

    Stalling 2010

  •             The kite's eight faces wouldn't even stop to enjoy flight!

    Kite 2009

  • She borrowed Ginny's Exacto knife to cut the lathes and showed the children how to use a piece of string, doubled, to find the center of the longer lathe on a kite's crossbraces.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994 Maggie Jochild 2007

  • The first beak to find a dead lorry driver on the M40 is never going to be a kite's.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • The kite's eight faces wouldn't even stop to enjoy flight!

    Kite Matthew Simmons 2009

  • Jesse ran toward the fence, hoping to glimpse the kite's owner.

    Gift of the Kites at Clarkesworld jimhines 2008

  • Off topic, Iain any comment on kite's latest article and the quote from Bridges that we won the locals by being nice about the Fib Dems?

    John Reid Threatens Our Civil Liberties 2007

  • Josie would hear laughter following her like a kite's tail for that whole day-maybe even longer.

    Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

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