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During a ballet of batlike aerialists, he suffers a panic attack, and is hastened out of the theater by his parents - to behold their shooting by an unbalanced thief

Mere anarchy: the batman trilogy

Rafa had scrutinized the construction of each drum, caressed the band of gleaming silver that anchored the drumhead, examined the six batlike wings that bolted the band to the wood.

Take the money and run--1968

The grey luminescence of the stars showed some kind of a domed head above two short batlike wings.

The mythical method in song and saga, verse and prose: Part II

The shortage of blood is causing worldwide panic as the starving undead populace mutate into grotesque, batlike "subsiders.

Daybreakers

Bloom's simple rhyme in iambic trimeter is not usually associated with Stephen's interest in iambs or his composition/plagiarism in "Proteus," but both record the flight of a bird or batlike figure over the sea.

Joyce's reading bodies and the kinesthetics of the modernist novel

The United States Air Force is so interested in developing batlike aircraft that they're funding the research.