perching
Speech parts
1. perching - Noun
2. perching - Verb
Meaning
of Perch
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Examples
Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: "Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig."
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
A notable feature of passerines compared to other orders of Aves is the arrangement of their toes, three pointing forward and one back, which facilitates perching.
Elsewhere, a man was spotted staring intently on the ground after spotting a 'watch the step' sign, while a husband responded to his wife's request to put the pillow cases on by perching them on top.
Larger birds were often placed in their ground habitat or perching on stumps.
Pages 90 and 154. Miho often acts strangely compared to the comic's other characters, and regularly accomplishes abnormal feats, such as leaping inhuman distances or perching herself atop telephone poles.