Sleepy cormorants fly into the heronry in a tall alder beyond the mere. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
For two possessions is Parham noted: a heronry in the park, and in the house a copy of Montaigne with Shakespeare's autograph in it. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Rooks and jackdaws sometimes take up their quarters near to a heronry, and do you know they steal their eggs, the rogues, and devour them. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
His sheep died, and he set out for Spalding full of the thoughts of the heronry. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
It has several very small islands in it, and one rather larger, which is a heronry. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
The heronry is abandoned, said Jonathan Lowsky, a wildlife biologist in the midvalley. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
June, I am through this heronry in a small canoe almost every day, and often twice a day. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
They found the school very excited over a heronry which they could see on an island in the lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess of the School] Reference
Miss Rainbow, with her beautiful estate, with its lake, its heronry, and its perpetual advowson. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
So intent was Marvel upon the thoughts of the Spalding heronry, that he neglected every thing else. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
Lincolnshire farmer, a proposal to purchase his heronry, may perhaps be imagined, but cannot be described. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
As there is a large heronry and rookery on the trees on the islands, the variety of life there is very great. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
The young fish face a constant threat from herons that have conveniently built their heronry close to the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [RTÉ News] Reference
Herne Hill should be a hill with a heronry on it, but the name is new; it was King's Hill when John Speed made his map in the days of. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
There was a heronry among the trees on the edge of it, but otherwise the marsh was not used save as a storehouse for the basket-makers. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Guild] Reference
I saw the heronry so fatal to Po Yang, and told him that I was persuaded they were descended from Becket's assassin, and I hoped from my Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
A famous heronry has existed here for many years, and the birds are held now by Mr. and Mrs. Stacpoole as sacred as are the storks in Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference
You will notice that it is one of the shorter plumes, and is badly worn at the end, as have been all the plumes which I have picked up in my heronry. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
It was in vain that Marvel rose in his offers; it was in vain that he declared he was ready to give any price that Sir Plantagenet would set upon the heronry. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
When we awoke, they were gone, but we found the heronry that morning on one of the oak-covered knolls that rise like islands out of the heart of the great salt marshes. From Wordnik.com. [More Jonathan Papers] Reference
Either the heronry wasn't ventilated properly, or the decoy ponds had the wrong kind of mud, or ---- ". From Wordnik.com. [Once a Week] Reference
A plovery -- as we say rookery and heronry -- for the green plovers or peewits always had several nests in it. From Wordnik.com. [Round About a Great Estate] Reference
A quantity of herons 'nests, and whether the heronry consists of a whole grove of wood, or only of a few trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1] Reference
A rookery and a heronry; the herons ought to be here by now, for they're off to the sea in August, but I have not seen one yet. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
Nearby is a heronry which can be visited by boat. From Wordnik.com. [Sundarbans National Park, India] Reference
"Until today, we were not sure the heronry would last. From Wordnik.com. [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference
"So, then, the end of all this turmoil is to purchase a heronry!. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
My fortune will be made when I get possession of the Spalding heronry. ". From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
Stay in doors patiently, until sunrise sends the rough-clawed prowler back to his heronry again. ". From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
Now Pitherby wants a heronry as well. From Wordnik.com. [When William Came] Reference
Think of what I shall make by my heronry!. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference
The heronry is off the corridor but nearby. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
A great heronry) and Kinderdyk; past fishermen dropping their nets for salmon, which they may take only on certain days, to give their. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
A lonely bird making way for the heronry. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
Udo, dear, have you seen the heronry lately? ". From Wordnik.com. [Once on a Time] Reference
"The first thing that I came upon was a heronry. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College] Reference
“The first thing that I came upon was a heronry. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge]
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