Citations:storky

English citations of storky

Adjective: "resembling a stork"

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• 1911 — Enos Mills, The Spell of the Rockies, Houghton Mifflin Company (1911), page 200:

  By tapping against dead tree-trunks I have often roused Mother Woodpecker from her nest. Thrusting out her head from a hole far above, she peered down with one eye and comically titled her head to discover the cause of the disturbance. With long nose and head tilted to one side, she had both a storky and a philosophical appearance.

• 2008 — Corey Kilgannon, "Fishermen’s Big Catch, Almost a Thing of the Past", The New York Times, 18 May 2008:

  For this, the Seamans watch the birds that are also hunting spearing. When the floppy-flying terns gather in frenzied groups to dive-bomb the little fish, when the snowy egrets, tall and storky, use their long graceful necks to stab at the fish, then the Seamans head over to investigate.

• 2010 — Joel Achenbach, "Houston diary", The Washington Post, 26 August 2010:

  Even here at the airport motel there is beauty in unexpected places. At night when I drive into the parking lot there's a ditch to the right and I keep seeing a strange bird, a looney bird, a crane, a storky, egrettish thing, standing sentinel on the bank.

Adjective: "tall and long-limbed"

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• 1973 — Philip Roth, The Great American Novel, Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1973), →ISBN, page 27:

  "What's this I heard," said Hem, "that Herman Melville wrote the Great American Novel! Who's Herman Melville!"

  The slit turned and twisted on her long storky legs like a little kid who had to go. Finally she got it out. "The author of Moby Dick."

• 1985 — David Denby, "Where the Coyotes Howl", New York Magazine, 21 January 1985:

  Modine, working under Alan Parker's direction, goes all the way with his transformation into a feathered creature: He folds his long, storky legs under his chin, a shorebird hunkering for the night; he twists his neck to one side and jerks his head suddenly, lunging for a worm.

• 1987 — Hal Hinson, "Twist and Shout", The Washington Post, 12 June 1987:

  Bjorn and Erik are opposites: Bjorn is a good-natured kid with storky arms -- they look about three inches too long -- and a bright, open face.

• 1987 — Nancy Thayer, Nell, Charnwood (1987), →ISBN, page 260:

  She was not particularly impressed that the ocean deposited sand on the beach — she was much more impressed with the storky length of Andy's legs — but she liked him for his thoughts.

• 1995 — Jean-Jacques Taylor, "Carver doesn't deserve bad rap he's been given", Dallas Morning News, 30 August 1995:

  He made plays but he's a tall Ichibod Crane-looking storky guy that someone said "This guy can't play professional football because he doesn't fit the mold."

• 1997 — John Kaye, Stars Screaming, Grove Press (1997), →ISBN, page 206:

  In the lighted foyer Burk saw that the woman was Madeline Wells. Her date was a black man with long storky legs.

• 2003 — Sandra Hall, "All or Nothing", Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2003:

  With her storky neck and receding chin Sheen is no beauty, and there's something about Maureen's buoyant manner as she rises and takes the microphone that has you steeling yourself for her imminent humiliation.

• 2004 — Martha Tod Dudman, Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning, Simon and Schuster (2004), →ISBN, chapter 10:

  Kit was tall and storky — a boarder from the South somewhere, or Texas.

• 2007 — Anne Shapiro, Living on Air, Soho Press (2007), →ISBN, page 247:

  He sighed, skinny and tall in the doll-like kitchen, in jeans that bagged around his storky legs.

• 2008 — Marianne Gray, "Mother of all roles - Nicole Kidman interview", Scotsman on Sunday, 22 June 2008:

  I was 5ft 10in when I was 11 years old and had the awful nickname of 'Storky'.