A Song of Flight

2021-09-21

A young warrior who wields both the power of her music and the strength of her sword faces a grave threat in this enthralling historical fantasy.

Author: Juliet Marillier

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9780451492838

Category: Fiction

Page: 464

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A young warrior who wields both the power of her music and the strength of her sword faces a grave threat in this enthralling historical fantasy. Bard and fighter Liobhan is always ready for a challenge. So when news arrives at Swan Island that the prince of Dalriada has gone missing after an assault by both masked men and the sinister Crow Folk, she's eager to act. While Liobhan and her fellow Swan Island warriors seek answers to the prince's disappearance, the bard Brocc, Liobhan's brother, finds himself in dire trouble. His attempts to communicate with the Crow Folk have led him down a perilous path. When Liobhan and her comrades are sent to the rescue, it becomes clear the two missions are connected--and a great mystery unfolds. What brought the Crow Folk to Erin? And who seeks to use them in an unscrupulous bid for power? As Liobhan and Brocc investigate, it will take all their strength and will to continue pursuing the truth. With the safety of their loved ones in the balance, the risks they must take may cost them everything.
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Life Histories of North American Flycatchers Larks Swallows and Their Allies

1942

The ground songs are similar to the flight songs though rarely as long or as systematically presented . The urge to flight song may come at any time or after an invading male lark has been evicted from occupied territory .

Author: Arthur Cleveland Bent

Publisher:

ISBN: CHI:72661426

Category: Birds

Page: 555

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This is the fourteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued as follows: 107, 113, 121, 126, 130, 135, 142, 146, 162, 167, 170, 174, 176. This bulletin deals with the Order Passeriformes, specifically the Family Cotingidae (Cotingas); Family Tyrannidae (Flycatchers) ; Family Alaudidae (Larks) and Family Hirundinidae (Swallows) of North America
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Bulletin

1968

This quotation is slightly misleading in that the bird seldom begins the song during the preliminary , upward flight . The behavior of singing birds I witnessed at Cape Thompson did not differ from that Drury recorded ( 1961 ) on Bylot ...

Author: United States National Museum

Publisher:

ISBN: MINN:31951D02881616Z

Category: Science

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Midnight Flight

2003-10-07

His first instruction was to mount Wind Song from the left side. Even at his age, he was nimble enough to leap and swing his leg over Wind Song's back. I tried it and failed miserably, probably because I was too frightened.

Author: V.C. Andrews

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9780743436366

Category: Fiction

Page: 384

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THEY LIVED ON THE WILD SIDE. NOW THESE BAD GIRLS ARE PAYING THE PRICE. At Dr. Foreman's School for Girls, the "students" sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an institution run by the dreadful Dr. Foreman, a woman who delights in administering the worst form of punishment -- the mysterious Ice Room where the girls face their darkest fears. Now Phoebe, Teal, and Robin -- three girls from very different worlds -- are the newcomers in this desert hell. During their stay, each girl will be tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as Dr. Foreman cleverly tries to turn them against each other -- until they learn that the only way to survive is to stick together...and fight back. THESE TOUGH GIRLS NEVER MET THEIR MATCH -- UNTIL THEY MET EACH OTHER. Phoebe No one will hear her cries now. They put the helmet over my head and fastened the straps so that it was on tightly. I resisted but I couldn't keep my arms from being straightened and then a strap was fixed over my chest. It was just as it had been when I woke up in the plane that brought me to this hell. Robin She wants to break free -- but where will she fly? I'm going to strangle my mother darling when I get away from here. She just wanted to get me out of her hair while she tries to become a famous country singing star. Just go, she told me, I'm better off. What she really meant was she was better off. Teal Once she was rich and entitled -- now she's just trying to survive. Don't you want to try to run away with me? You can't want to stay here a moment longer than you have to. Maybe we just have to follow the dirt road out. Maybe they're lying to us and we're not that far from a town. I won't make it through another day like this.
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Tundra Plovers

2011-11-30

made a particular effort to study as many song flights as possible in 1989 and 1990 at Jaeren, Hardangervidda and Yamal. Birds in song flights were followed through binoculars, with relevant information dictated simultaneously on a tape ...

Author: Des Thompson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781408146149

Category: Science

Page: 456

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This text presents the tundra plovers, comprising of the grey plover and the Eurasian, Pacific, and American golden plovers. Breeding on tundra or northern heaths and moorland, they migrate far south to coastal mudflats, saltings and agricultural landscapes. The text examines the taxonomy, appearance, behaviour, ecology and conservation of golden and grey plovers, and compares and contrasts their natural history and biogeography. It also gives accounts on all aspects of their lifestyle including feeding, mating, parental care, moults, migration and avoidance of predators.
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Flight

2014-04-04

2 Watch the video clip that accompanies the song 'Let's go fly a kite'. u Play it through again and encourage the children to join in with the singing. 4 Go through the words line by line, and explain any words the children do not know.

Author: Sue Sheppy

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134023547

Category: Education

Page: 98

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This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily implemented and readily incorporated into curriculum planning through links made to the Foundation Stage curriculum. Each book includes: activities that can be used on their own or as part of a themed program ideas for enjoying an all round curriculum approach guidance on expanding existing ideas and resources linked ideas to be carried out at home. Flight includes birds, airplanes, helicopters, magic carpets and fairies. It has strong ties with the science curriculum as well as linking with a variety of story books.
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Protector of the Flight

2007-02-01

Power enveloped him and Calli heard a few bars of a wild volaran flying Song. “That should do it,” Bastien panted. He shook his head, then leaned against the stable wall. Feels okay now. Thunder looked back. Bastien flapped a hand.

Author: Robin D. Owens

Publisher: LUNA

ISBN: 9781552548592

Category: Fiction

Page: 384

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If horses could fly…then Calli Torcher might ride again.But a devastating accident left her in such painshe thought the chimes and chanting in her earswere a hallucination…until she found herselftransported to another world, and met the Lladranans who had Summoned her. Lladrana was a parallel, magical earth filledwith exotic creatures, noble humans andenchantments—all threatened by anencroaching evil. And when the mighty volarans stoppedobeying the Chevaliers, the flying horses'unexpected rebellion had thrown Lladranainto an uproar. In desperation, the sorcerers had sought help from afar—and gotten Calli. If she could fulfill this mission, perhaps shewould also finally find all she had longedfor—a mate, a home, a family. Butagainst this great darkness, she hadno battle experience, no strategyplans. She had only a bondwith horses.…
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The Flight of the Garuda

2012-08-19

Still, the Garuda's flight should appear effortless, its wings beat— ing in unison. The Flight ofthe Garnda is a collection ofDzogchen songs compiled to teach tregcho meditation. Thus in general the structure of the text shows the evo— ...

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9780861718535

Category: Religion

Page: 240

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Dzogchen, a tradition of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, is considered by many to be an extremely powerful path to enlightenment. This ground-breaking book offers translations of four sacred texts of the Dzogchen tradition: Secret Instruction in a Garland of Vision, The Flight of the Garuda, Emptying the Depths of Hell, and the Wish-Granting Prayer of Kuntu Zangpo. With an informative introduction by the translator, Flight of the Garuda is an invaluable resource for both practice and scholarship. Flight of the Garuda conveys the heart advice of one of the most beloved nonsectarian masters of Tibet. Ordained as a Gelug monk, the itinerant yogi Shabkar was renowned for his teachings on Dzogchen, the heart practice of the Nyingma lineage. He wandered the countryside of Tibet and Nepal, turning many minds toward the Dharma through his ability to communicate the essence of the teachings in a poetic and crystal-clear way. Buddhists of all stripes, including practitioners of Zen and Vipassana, will find ample sustenance within the pages of this book, and be thrilled by the lyrical insights conveyed in Shabkar's words. Along with the song by Shabkar, translator Keith Dowman includes several other seminal Dzogchen texts. Dzogchen practice brings us into direct communion with the subtlemost nature of our experience, the unity of samsara in nirvana as experienced within our own consciousness. Within the Nyingma school, it is held higher than even the practices of tantra for bringing the meditator face to face with the nature of reality.
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Life Histories of North American Nuthatches Wrens Thrashers and Their Allies

1948

On July 22 Mr. Weydemeyer was astonished to hear what sounded like a typical flight song of the bobolink . He then saw a catbird fly out and upward until it reached a height of about 30 feet above the brush ; then while descending at an ...

Author: Arthur Cleveland Bent

Publisher:

ISBN: OSU:32435029592995

Category: Amphibians

Page: 118

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Connecticut Woodlands

1936

After a period of ground calling, the bird suddenly leaps into the air and begins his flight-song by a long, steady, upward climb on whistling wings. As he ascends higher he swings in a wide circle, his rapidlv beating wings making a ...

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Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015031897567

Category: Forests and forestry

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