Koskomenos the kingfisher is a kind of outcast among the birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret of the Woods] Reference

The kingfisher "chuckled" deep down in his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

He does not seem to be as expert as the kingfisher.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878] Reference

But this time the kingfisher did not swallow the fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

Gossip, with the addition of a hawk striking the kingfisher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

The small kingfisher, black and white kingfisher common: Myophonus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

The kingfisher had made her nest at the foot of a great hollow tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference

Just then, the kingfisher came along, still looking for a mountain-stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference

Birds -- great kingfisher, diver snappet, white-pated rumped chats, no ouzels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Philippines, is probably the halcyon kingfisher (Ceyx euerythra) of the islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference

In some streams water birds, particularly the small kingfisher of India are seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Then the kingfisher gladly drank a few drops of the water, and washed her feathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference

Now, every day the kingfisher laid one egg, and that day she laid her egg as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippine Folk-Tales] Reference

Under the embroidered quilt and the kingfisher coverlet one can't sleep for the cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

For the same reason the kingfisher waits until the ice has left the ponds and streams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends and Helpers] Reference

On their way the blue kingfisher flashed by, chuckling harshly deep down in his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

Ever since the kingfisher has been regarded as the emblem, of lasting fidelity in love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

The mottled kingfisher occurs throughout, but is commoner in southern latitudes of India.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

It's a fine morning of summer, and I saw a kingfisher across the watermeadows coming along.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship] Reference

The first kingfisher he'd posed — he knew he was on to something even before he finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

She was wearing a new silk fur-lined gown the bright turquoise color of kingfisher feathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joy Luck Club]

But like a homing kingfisher, he came flashing straight back to his bough beside the stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

With another chuckle and rattle the kingfisher flew away to his fishing station over the pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

She was singing softly to herself when she heard the rattling cry of the kingfisher quite near.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

And about the clouded leopards caught on one of the cameras, and the pygmy kingfisher caught in a net.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV review: Excluded and Lost Land of the Tiger] Reference

With the kingfisher I have already dealt at some length, so that I need say but little more with regard to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference

A kingfisher hovered over the surface before folding his wings and bombing the water, then rising to hover again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rob Pringle: Where the Rift Valley Ends] Reference

A kingfisher would make short work of a box of fry, and other birds and beasts of various kinds are partial to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference

"Papa," said May, "is not the kingfisher a very beautiful bird, and the most brightly coloured of all British birds?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The forest was alive with bird song; squirrels chattered to him from the trees and the rattle of the kingfisher was in his ears, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Followers of the Trail] Reference

Here and there a cormorant sat alone on the branch of a dead tree, or a kingfisher poised himself over the water, watching for his prey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

After a heron or kingfisher has been about a rearing pond the little fish will not feed for a considerable time, sometimes even for days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Fish Culture] Reference