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Becoming Human: a science fiction novel about a young woman in a postapocalyptic world who escapes the destruction of her township and falls in with a species of batwinged humanoid energy-vampires instead.

Nora’s Sunday Quickie: The Runup to Publication « 2009

I will eat Literally Anything, regardless of cleanliness, cloven or uncloven of hoof, feathered or batwinged or scaled, up to and including The Great God Pan and/or Jormungandr no gods, no masters, no dietary laws

Sequel Planned to the Kosher Guide: The Goyim Guide 2010

If the Blunt on Dave Hughes mate is gone, I suspect there may be a flock of batwinged lawyers circling, they turn up faster than you can say billable hours.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something. 2009

Quokka, federal.gov.au had as great legal database and Australian defamation laws are basicaly “not only may it be true & uncommonsense, but you still cough up because the defamed has a flock of batwinged lawyers”, I have seen the legal version of “My client resembles that remark” and still get the payday.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something. 2009

Other species, like the batwinged fly (Exul singularis), have dark coloration to maximize solar heat.

Southland montane grasslands 2008

The princess gaped up at the gargoyle-covered ramparts, the batwinged turrets, the forbidding black walls.

With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

Occasionally the passage of the icerigger would stir up clouds of batwinged butterfiy-like creatures, little knots of black, purple, and gray fur supported by wings seemingly too delicate to cope with Tran-ky-ky's fer-ocious winds.

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

I wonder if for an instant he was flying a batwinged F-106 instead of a clipped-wing F-105.

Thud Ridge Broughton, Jack, 1925- 1969

In that to the right, Death, personified as a female phantom, batwinged, claw-footed, her robe of linked mail [?] and her long hair streaming on the wind, swings back her scythe in order to cut down a company of the rich ones of the earth,

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

Iran has said it captured the drone - a sophisticated, batwinged RQ-170 model with radar-evading features - by way of an electronic attack on the aircraft's navigation system as it hovered over northern Iran on Dec. 4, causing it to land without damage.

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