pigeon-like

That feeling of being watched made him cautious, so he did not practice much with his mind-control on any of the pigeon-like birds!

Man of Many Minds 1925

Once more he sent a portion of his mind out through the ventilator and found one of the pigeon-like birds still nearby.

Man of Many Minds 1925

After a time Hanlon noticed that here, as in most parks, hundreds of native, pigeon-like birds were flying and hopping about, seeking what crumbs they could scrounge from picnickers 'lunches, or nuts fed them by interested idlers.

Man of Many Minds 1925

Minnie Rauskukle, plump, hearty Minnie, heiress to the general store, gave evidence by bridling and straightening her pigeon-like body that she was aware of Milt behind her.

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

Another, a pigeon-like creature, began softly, and continued to repeat in diminishing energy until it seemed to have run down, like a piece of clockwork.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

I seem to feel that it is an aim and name which people would readily and pleasantly connect with _me_; and that, for a good course and a clear one, instead of making circles pigeon-like at starting, here we should be safe.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

Three or four of them jostling for space in what they apparently think is an outhouse with food, staring at me insolently with their pigeon-like eyes while the lovely cardinals gaze wistfully from distant trees and finally give up.

chicagotribune.com - 2010

Three or four of them jostling for space in what they apparently think is an outhouse with food, staring at me insolently with their pigeon-like eyes while the lovely cardinals gaze wistfully from distant trees and finally give up.

chicagotribune.com - 2010

Laura Glazer, a bespectacled 32 year-old Albany resident, stood behind a table covered in pins, notecards, bags, tees, and pale yellow Post-it notes, each marked with an elegant pigeon-like bird drawn in black felt pen.

timesunion.com: Local Breaking News 2009

At the thought of all this splendour, Hetty got up from her chair, and in doing so caught the little red-framed glass with the edge of her scarf, so that it fell with a bang on the floor; but she was too eagerly occupied with her vision to care about picking it up; and after a momentary start, began to pace with a pigeon-like stateliness backwards and forwards along her room, in her coloured stays and coloured skirt, and the old black lace scarf round her shoulders, and the great glass ear-rings in her ears.

Adam Bede 2004