beaky

Jim Carrey tells John Hiscock about his beaky new co-stars in 'Mr Popper's Penguins' and how he made it big.

[…] Hector thunder'd threats aloud,

And rush'd enraged before the Trojan crowd;

Then swift invades the ships, whose beaky prores

Lay rank'd contiguous on the bending shores;

"[…] You haven't a nose like mine. I'll be as beaky as Father in ten more years. […]"

And always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest. He watched the queer, beaky motion of the creature as it gobbled into itself the scraps of food; its glancing of the eye of life, ever alert and watchful […]