This was quite a large rookery of penguins which allowed very close approach. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Few things are so unmusical as the voices of rooks, yet a home with a rookery is a very peaceful place. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
It was called a rookery, one of many in London, but this was as foul a rookery as any the city could boast. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Regiment]
The multitude of birds and their prodigious fecundity inspired the thought that the "rookery" for the whole breadth of the. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
A "rookery" in the centre, and on the branches of the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Climbers A Play in Four Acts] Reference
I think a rookery is a sort of town itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
The house where he stayed still stands, and the rookery still exists. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
"I won't trouble them, for I shall not go inside their rookery," said. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
There were a number of excellent hiding-places about the old rookery. From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
The stream of birds from the rookery was flying in the same direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The shrub thicket of Middle Marsh supports an egret and heron rookery. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference
A large colony of great blue heron live in a rookery on Samish Island. From Wordnik.com. [Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington] Reference
The wood-pigeons were cooing, the young rooks cawing shrilly in the rookery. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Other volunteers would return the birds to their rookery, and we waved goodbye. From Wordnik.com. [Saving The Jackass Penguins] Reference
In this rookery the young couple had kept themselves apart, and had no friends. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
There is a rookery of grey pelicans Pelecanus philippensis near Kaziranga village. From Wordnik.com. [Kaziranga National Park, India] Reference
The rookery has partially recuperated since more protective measures were put in place. From Wordnik.com. [Maudlandia Antarctic desert] Reference
"Late in Summer, bagged your game; in early Autumn, fitted up this jolly old rookery --". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He had grown up in a rookery where he had learned every trick of cheating and brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
There is another rookery in the town, in the garden of Mrs. Cross, a friend of my mother's. From Wordnik.com. [Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.] Reference
He had watched such streaming companies start forth from the old rookery, ever since his boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
In addition to the egret and heron rookery, many black-backed and herring gulls nest on the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference
Were not at home with these waifs from the rookery, pastured at large in free Nature's wild wastes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890] Reference
'Then yo' mud as weel fell th 'rookery,' was Abraham's sharp retort, which called forth a hearty laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
There was also, formerly, a rookery on some large elm trees in the College Garden behind the Ecclesiastical. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829] Reference
There came a murmur rising now and again to a shriek, issuing, he guessed, from the clak-clak rookery above. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
He used the stealth he had learned as a child in the London rookery where, if a boy did not steal, he starved. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Climate change and sea turtles: 150-year reconstruction of incubation temperatures at a major marine turtle rookery. From Wordnik.com. [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 5] Reference
I ended up at a music hall in a rat-infested rookery playing bawdy tunes for drunken sots who tossed me pennies for pay. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
And this rookery is considered so precious, so vulnerable that Fish and Wildlife made sure this island got the boom first. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Threatens Brown Pelican Off Of Louisiana Coast] Reference
St. Giles, afterwards called George St. Bloomsbury, was a well-known rookery where thieves and their associates congregated. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Wandsworth, keeping by the river bank, and Jarvis made a halt at a tumbledown rookery of a waterside tavern -- the "Feathers.". From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
There was also, for many years, a rookery on the trees in the churchyard of St. Dunstan's in the East, a short distance from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829] Reference
The day before yesterday the men with one or two women and some children went by boat to the rookery to fetch home three heifers. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
If a large bird of prey hovers about a rookery for the purpose of carrying away the young ones, they all unite to drive him away. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
In March, 1827, there was a rookery on some trees, neither very lofty nor very elegant, in the garden of the Royal Naval Asylum, at. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829] Reference
In a large north of England town a pair of strange rooks, after trying in vain to find a home in a rookery at a little distance from the. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
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