Miss Padsoe looked very fragile and old, more like a scare-the-birds than a woman as she carefully wrapped a mothy old bit of fur round her thin neck, and Miss Baker wondered if she ought to come out in this bitter cold, and said as much.
1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 22:
A black wooden toy windmill on a stick meant for a scare-the-birds was warped and immovable.