vulturine
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Mandelup follows Tester as he is scouted by a vulturine manager, who we only meet once, and, believe me, once is enough.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2019
His eyes were the worst – glittery and vulturine.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2018
Even Erdrich seems tested by Romeo with his "caved, tubercular-looking chest, scrawny arms, a vulturine head, and perpetually stoked-up eyes."
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2016
Hume once demolished one of these vulturine nurseries and found that it weighed over eight maunds, that is to say about six hundredweight.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
Who owneth these large shafts, so thick, furnished with vulturine wings whetted on stone, yellowish in hue, sharp-pointed, well-tempered, and entirely made of iron?
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
