Only the hunters know anything about him, and they know him chiefly as a glorious bird that flashes up to the alder tops with a surprised twitter before their dogs, and poises there a moment on whirring wings to get his bearings, and then from his vantage-point at the moment of his exultation he either falls down dead at the bang of their guns and the rip of shot through the screen of leaves, or else happily he slants swiftly down to another hiding-place among the alders.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
He waits for a moment or two and then straightens his body, pulls up one knee, and poises the axe behind him.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman
But as she stood on the top of the tower, her arms outstretched, like a white butterfly that poises its wings for flight, a voice spoke in her ear.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang