Mea had scarcely thrown the lighted, smoking branches into the lower one when immediately out of the upper one big bats began to fly; squeaking and blinded by the luster of the sun, they flew aimlessly about the tree.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Stas was also surprised that the bats could live in the immediate neighborhood of the snake.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
I'd like to know what 'n time they learn folks back East, anyhow; to put their eyes and their sense in their pockets, I guess, and go along blind as bats.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower