The Slayer and the Sphinx: Chapter Twelve

It echoed down the corridor, inside his head, shaking him like a scarecrow in a storm, and then-- he sat upright with a gasp, his heart pounding like a drum inside his chest.

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Epilogue - New Beginnings

It reminded her of a scarecrow come to life. it twisted its head this way and that. memory returned to her of link's stories, of a land called termina and a skull kid he had befriended. could this be the very one?

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Alternative Currency

It didn't make sense; alex was scrawny, more likely to play a scarecrow than a leading man if he were in a movie. still, there was no denying the other man's tenacity or his eagerness.

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Year's End

The bones of his shoulders pinch at the backs of my knees like a fur-wrapped scarecrow frame. i can't feel anything else. i reach out to touch him, but he slaps my hand away. sweat drips off his nose. he thrusts hard, then harder.

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Magnus Chronicles: Ancients Awakening: Chapter 3

He even threatened to tie darwyn to one of the scarecrows last summer when you were gone." they had been riding for two hours now and had cleared the forest that surrounded arvanis' tower.

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Backyard Snack

It felt like he was trying to prop up a dummy or a scarecrow, for how uncooperative his legs were being. they gave out beneath him at first, wobbling and buckling, and he had to lean on the chair for support.

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The App Trap

Athletic musculature that had emerged from nowhere to cover dallas' scrawny frame, continued morphing the human scarecrow into a master renaissance sculptor's study of the human ideal--michelangelo's _david_anthropomorphized.

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Demon Hunted

Too long, too thin, i teetered like a scarecrow. my tail? unseemly, a beastly brush, a thing of spikes and chaos- hers was a glimmering mercury river. my chest? scarred from battle, thin spots over my flat stomach.

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Enochian: Book 1, Chapter 7

A pause as the waiter trotted quickly away with a chastised look upon his face, and then the general turned back to zerrex, grunting: "see, that there's the whole reason we chose you to lead project scarecrow in the end.

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Peeler's Reel

You look like a scarecrow." while quentin left for the wardrobe, rick asked: "what am i supposed to do?" - "you're gonna be wilbur shepherd, the fiancé of young lady blackwood." - "wait a second!

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The Legend of Spyro: Path of Delusions Book X Chapter 51

He let out a deep, quiet breath of relief that made his entire chest sulk, turning the cloak he was wearing into an overgrown cloth more fit for a scarecrow than a breathing cheetah.

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The Coon-Dog's Diaries (vol. 2 - Alfonz-Mackenzie)

I only prayed hard that no further visitors would sprout upon my doorstep unwelcome or that he wouldn't fall apart like some frankenstein's monster, a scarecrow held together by twine and hemp padding.

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