Like a sandpiper on a wet beach, Rhue hurried over.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Corpse is a Corpse]

I knew they were in the sandpiper family, but which?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

The little sandpiper and I. Comrade, where wilt thou be to-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graded Memory Selections] Reference

"I didn't know the old sandpiper had so much poetry in his soul.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference

Cthulhu: Catholic darkwave: duckweed synthpop: Xanthippe, sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJ spellchecks] Reference

An urchin, barefoot, was pottering round in silence, like a sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

Prosobonia ellisi, an extinct species of sandpiper from Moorea, Society Islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Islands tropical moist forests] Reference

A sandpiper sprinted a few paces and rose in curving flight, keening a bitter cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

I particularly like the design of the little bird that looks like it could be a sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hanging Ten (and Hoping for a Big Opening)] Reference

Other important birds seen in the area include the American bittern and the upland sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference

It is remarkable from its quiet habits; it lives entirely on the sea-beach, like a sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

No one who hears the wail of a frightened sandpiper begging protection for her young can sit unmoved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories] Reference

Notable among these are scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber) and semi-palmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla).    From Wordnik.com.  [Paramaribo swamp forests] Reference

He sounded the cry of our arrival, and came skurrying like a sandpiper, his scant gown tripping him, his cap askew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

As we walked the hummocks around the ponds, one of the leaders thought he heard a wood sandpiper — a Code-4 bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birding at the Edge] Reference

More bird watching is available at Saemankeum, Korea, where the spoonbilled sandpiper is visible in this vast wetland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildlife: Animal Planet] Reference

Additionally, two species of Prosobonia sandpiper, 3 parrots, and 1 pigeon have become extinct since European arrival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Islands tropical moist forests] Reference

The small western sandpiper is the dominant species, accounting for at least 75 percent of the slough's bird population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference

Was that the way to speak to three big, 'most-grown-up sandpiper sons, who had wandered about so free of will the livelong day?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories] Reference

They watched the boat chug and bob until it seemed smaller than a tern or even a sandpiper on the sea; but then it was out of hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hotel New Hampshire]

Their heads swiveled, and then, "Upland sandpiper!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Statesman - AP Sports] Reference

A belated sandpiper flew into the cove, peeped, and flew out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin O'Brien] Reference

The river rippled and murmured in cooling song just beyond the sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaming Forest] Reference

Greater yellow-leg is much scarcer than formerly, also Bartramian sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

He felt an even greater desire to wring the neck of the inquisitive little sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaming Forest] Reference

The near-sighted little sandpiper had discovered him and seemed interested in the operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaming Forest] Reference

On we went, skimming over inflowing ridges with exhilarating undulations, light as a sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Junk] Reference

Scotian upland; a sandpiper "peets" and the scene in our mind's eye as instantly changes, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

KNOT, company, band; a sandpiper or robin snipe (Tringa canutus); flower-bed laid out in fanciful design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man in His Humor] Reference

Other birds also benefited: the uncommon upland sandpiper is just one of the other species now nesting there regularly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

The water there is so shallow that our governess used to allow us to wander at will, to run on ahead in pursuit of a sandpiper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference

A sandpiper on the shore, loons, ducks, gulls, and crows, a few of each, and a bald eagle are all the birds I have noticed thus far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Alaska] Reference

Speaking of courtship after marriage, I am reminded of a spotted sandpiper, whose capers I amused myself with watching, one day last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference