It was just four feet long, but strong, with a brown body, white belly and baleful, brownish-yellow eyes.

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The mother falcon, sleek and gray with a banded gray and white belly, squawked furiously as Nadareski crawled toward the box.

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Its belly was white as an egg, soft, dry and shiny like polished leather and undulating with breaths.

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In the company of Emma McCune, misguided though she might have seemed to some, Ms Scroggins takes the reader by the hand into the hot dust of southern Sudan and the politics of the belly, where black meets white, rich meets poor and the fat white paunch of the West gets to look upon starving Africa's distended stomach.

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Wearing ankle bracelets, handcuffs, and a belly chain, Dellelo was marched into a thirteen-by-eight-foot off-white cell.

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