It's a broken kite!

Jimmy felt that he was sitting in a broken kite, slowly falling down the sky.

The ghoul quickly got to its feet and disappeared into the darkness, dragging its right leg like a broken kite.

It suggests something deflated or damaged - a broken kite or shield perhaps - and its ineffectualness is matched by the weary stoicism of his face.

He describes Billy as a filthy flamingo and a broken kite, the Russian prisoner as "a ragbag with a round, flat face that glowed like a radium dial."

It was a flimsy thing, nothing but a great spinning cup of solar sail bands, and it came apart with startling rapidity, its front edge rolling under it until it was tumbling forward and down, trailing long looping streamers which looked like the tangled tails of several broken kites, all falling together.

They will do demonstrations, play host to a kite-making workshop, give lessons, fix broken kites at a kite hospital, set up a mini-museum and give tips on flying etiquette and safety.

Her deflated reputation trailed after her like the tail of a broken kite.

They will purchase a broken kite, one roller skate, a 1971 calendar, a bent fishing rod -anything, if you will just cut the price for them.

It yielded wild irises and berry-bearing sumac vines, as well as bottles, a broken kite and some underwear.