As I came near them, some of them kept flying round and round just over my head, and crying "pewit" so distinctly one might almost fancy they spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
As I came near them, some of them kept flying round and round, just over my head, and crying "pewit," so distinctly one might almost fancy they spoke. From Wordnik.com. [The Confederate First Reader: Containing Selections in Prose and Poetry as Reading Exercises for the Younger Children in the Schools and Families of the Confederate States.] Reference
I will teach thee a spring, Tony, to catch a pewit. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
If you see a man, keep still in your places and give the pewit call. From Wordnik.com. [The Scotch Twins] Reference
She puckered her lips and gave the pewit call, but there was no answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Scotch Twins] Reference
When its eggs are laid, the pewit will fight fiercely with any other of its species which comes too near it. From Wordnik.com. [Mamma's Stories about Birds] Reference
I distinctly remembered firing it at a pewit an hour before, for Edmee had wanted to examine the bird's plumage. From Wordnik.com. [Mauprat] Reference
On the 7th, we saw a curlieu and a pewit, and on the 9th we caught a land-bird, very much resembling a starling. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
Kibitz The flycatcher (also called lapwing, pewit, and other names) is an insectivorous bird with an irritating cry. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2] Reference
The next morning, as she was finishing the beds, Jean heard the pewit call and at once knew that the Clan was abroad. From Wordnik.com. [The Scotch Twins] Reference
Now and then I caught the cry of a pewit, or saw a snipe glance up from his bed; but mainly I was busied about the mare. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Spur] Reference
It is unmistakably spring, because the pewit bushes are budding and on yonder aspen we can hear a forsythia bursting into song. From Wordnik.com. [Mince Pie] Reference
Hence stork and swallow are the friends of man, while the pewit dwells in exile, fleeing ever from his presence with its lonesome cry. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of an American] Reference
Hence stork and swallow are the friends of man, while the pewit dwells in exile, fleeing ever from his presence with its lonesome cry. From Wordnik.com. [When I went Home to Mother] Reference
The pewit is universal on the hills, but will inevitably be driven away from all that portion of Salisbury Plain used for military purposes. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
The pewit, or black cap flycatcher, of Catesby, is the first bird of passage which appears in the spring in Pennsylvania, which is generally about the first, or. From Wordnik.com. [Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.] Reference
The characteristic species of this part of the down country, comprising the parish of Winterbourne Bishop, are the pewit, magpie, turtledove, mistle-thrush, and starling. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
He shook hands all round and sprang quickly into the carriage, and as it rattled away with him down the road, he stood up, waving his bonnet with the spray of evergreen pine in it and whistling the pewit call. From Wordnik.com. [The Scotch Twins] Reference
Remember the pewit call if we lose sight of each other. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Scotch Twins] Reference
I'll have a sprig of the evergreen pine and give the pewit call, and then you'll be sure. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Scotch Twins] Reference
The pewit, swopping up and down. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
Here still the pewit pipes and flits. From Wordnik.com. [Landscape and Song] Reference
Not like a pewit that returns to wail. From Wordnik.com. [Last Poems] Reference
The second companion was a pewit gull. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 500599] Reference
The pewit hollos "chewrit" as she flies. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
The pewit turned over and stooped oer my head. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference
A spring, Tony, to catch a pewit. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
5 Olines, or pewit. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
"tripped like a pewit.". From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
With pewit, woodpecker, swan, and rook. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
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