He sends his courtiers to take a nightingale from the nearby forest and present her as a guest at court. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
But after our Father and the Old Squire went to law, Mother told us we must be content with hearing the nightingale from a distance. From Wordnik.com. [Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden] Reference
the sweet nightingale is pouring forth its evening melody. From Wordnik.com. [Act I] Reference
Now my voice has lost its melting music, and he sends his accomplice to leave the mute 'nightingale' -- how often he has called me so!. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Oh, the birds did call the nightingale such pretty names!. From Wordnik.com. [Adela Cathcart, Volume 3] Reference
This little psalm has been called the nightingale of the psalms. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The song of the nightingale is the deadliest known to ornithology. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
The nightingale is the favourite pet singing-bird of the Persians. From Wordnik.com. [Persia Revisited] Reference
This is the bird which the Portuguese call the nightingale of Guiana. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in South America] Reference
But we have yet another reply to the question, 'Why do most people call the nightingale's a melancholy song?'. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852] Reference
The nightingale is the most general favorite, and nearly all the more noted English poets have sung her praises. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference
Till the last nightingale is tired of song. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
But when he came to the words, "the nightingale is the most beautiful of all," he exclaimed, "What is this?. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
The sick person may wear over the shoulders a flannel "nightingale" or jacket, to leave the arms at liberty. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
A book of M. de Chateaubriand's on the last of the Stuarts was for some time a "nightingale" on the bookseller's shelves. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Illusions] Reference
From that day the nightingale was a sacred bird. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories] Reference
Still sings the nightingale her soft melodious song. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
In the whitethorn the nightingale sings her sweet tale. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Mr. COLE (Singing): The nightingale tells his fairytales. From Wordnik.com. ['Nat King Cole Show' Challenged TV's Race Line] Reference
A nightingale was singing, and with sadness mocked us all. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
A nightingale began singing his song of love to the stars. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Time causes the nightingale to perish and the rose to fade. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
"But it does not matter; the new nightingale is just as good.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
Perhaps they will kill my nightingale in the Carmelite garden. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And the nightingale from shadowy boughs her vesper hymn repeat. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Emperor kept the gold nightingale on the perch in his own room. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
The moon shines on the nightingale singing in the sycamore tree. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Everybody in the court was filled with delight at the music of the new nightingale. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
The little one sang like a nightingale, thanks to Madame Dobson's expressive method. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"It was the nightingale singing to the rose," said the girl, bending over the flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
My voice rang out like the clear notes of a nightingale; and all at once I was joined by. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
To open the cage door was only a minute's work and the nightingale was soon as free as air. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
But there was nobody to wind the little gold nightingale up, and of course it could not sing. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
It was a tiny voice that spoke, sweet and clear as a nightingale's; but it was not a nightingale. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
This brutal, violent, fiercely angry work doesn't have a nightingale in it, but there is a canary. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Menagerie] Reference
"Pease-Blossom and the nightingale," answered the fay; and great was the joy in fairyland at their return. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
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