His nickname Skydog was inspired by how his long hair fell and by Pickett's appreciation of his birdlike guitar sound.

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Thus, Marina and Bella walk either with exaggerated strides, like students of Monty Python, or with skipping, kicks, and birdlike, stuttering trots.

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And here is the lady herself, surprisingly diminutive (birdlike, you might say), with a wicked grin that reveals her trademark mouthful of gold teeth.

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They proposed yanking the prehistoric creature off the "bird" branch of the evolutionary family tree and moving it onto a closely related lineage of birdlike dinosaurs.

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When all three of them were at the clinic together, I turned to head back home, but Veata came out onto the deck and grabbed my elbow with her bony, birdlike fingers.

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Like the BRZ, the Focus ST isn't particularly, by-the-clock fast (0-60 mph in about six seconds, at about 6, 600 rpm at the top of second gear) but it feels birdlike, sporty, tossable, willing, lively.

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That status was called into question two years ago by Chinese scientists, who proposed yanking it off the "bird" branch of the evolutionary family tree and moving it onto a closely related lineage of birdlike dinosaurs.

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