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  • As the camazotz came out of the bone forest toward us, their bat-wings stirring vortices in the smoke, I turned to tell my friend not to worry, and that the daykeepers would come to save us with their silvered blades at any moment.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • As the camazotz came out of the bone forest toward us, their bat-wings stirring vortices in the smoke, I turned to tell my friend not to worry, and that the daykeepers would come to save us with their silvered blades at any moment.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • I see the whole bat-wings image as - well - outdated and impractical.

    Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Restorations! Nima 2009

  • The Clay People generate a lot of pathos, there's a bridge in Azura's city that's made out of hard light, and Azura's soldiers have personal "bat-wings" built into their uniforms that they use as parachutes.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Michael May 2007

  • Minus the bat-wings and all, I'm sure she's anatomically acceptable, but I'll agree with Julie on this one that that there was NO need for the nudity...

    Games and Girls... Carlo Artieri 2006

  • If Kory was the archetypal Warrior of the Light, looking altogether too much like the Archangel Michael without wings for most peoples 'comfort, then Rionne was his polar opposite, lacking only enormous, tattered bat-wings to stand in for a darkly handsome, utterly menacing fallen angel.

    Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • It was more a matter of if you really understood what was just beneath the surface … If Kory was the archetypal Warrior of the Light, looking altogether too much like the Archangel Michael without wings for most peoples 'comfort, then Rionne was his polar opposite, lacking only enormous, tattered bat-wings to stand in for a darkly handsome, utterly menacing fallen angel.

    Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Even the snaggy craggy oak-trees put out the softest young leaves, spreading thin, brown little wings like young bat-wings in the light.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Yasmela, pressing her face against the tiles and stopping her pink ears with her dainty fingers, yet seemed to hear a strange sweeping noise, like the beat of bat-wings.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

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