The owl measured exactly two feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail; and its "alar spread," as naturalists term it, was full five feet in extent.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
Aldebaran, the Hyades, alar, Hastur, glided through the cloud-rifts which fluttered and flapped as they passed like the scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow.
"The King in Yellow"
Robert W. Chambers
These two rivers supply water for two of the most successful canals in Spain, especially that along the Pisuerga, for over ninety miles from alar del Rey to Valladolid.
"Spain"
Wentworth Webster