birdlike

Scientists had thought that path, while a bit circuitous, centered around variations of just one basic, birdlike body plan.

Alma Hitchcock, the times I saw her, was a frail, birdlike woman who looked angry about her infirmity.

But, as is ever the way with birdlike things, the hand slipped from its nest and left it empty.

She saw eyes—the marvellous, birdlike eyes of Bedouins—steadily regarding her beneath the darkness of peaked hoods.

The birdlike eyes roved towards Martin, who had just entered the room with the other men, and subjected him to a curious scrutiny.

But, later on, we learned that his description of the process necessary to keep up this birdlike posture was perfectly accurate.

She used to say I was like a bird, having something birdlike in my small dark head and the way I held it up.