Water-fowl, snipe, and red pie-like peewit or plover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

I just had a peewit bird follow me around the garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [4th May '05] Reference

The peewit was running about in the grass, one wing dangling to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tumbleweed]

As our peewit takes its name from the sound of its voice, so does the teru-tero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Of birds the black and white peewit is not uncommon; -- cormorants, etc. also occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

You know how cunning the peewit is in trying to lead people away from its nest or young ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

Overhead an anxious peewit circled against the blue, and every now and then emitted its feeble cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference

There is also a species of peewit who utters a rather pretty call, which might be supposed to be the.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

No, but when my master was turned into a peewit, he begged me to become a bird too, to follow and to serve him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

The peewit, as you saw, makes scarcely any nest, merely a hollow in the ground, with, perhaps, a few dried grasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The peculiar instinct of the peewit in misleading people as to the whereabouts of its eggs, or young ones, is very curious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

He growled a little at me and demanded, "Prithee, how comes it your peewit-brain bears such a ballast of fusty book-knowledge, chit?".    From Wordnik.com.  [No Great Magic] Reference

Where the lonely plover circles, and the peewit cries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference

Then he realised it was the grass, and the peewit was calling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference

He could imagine it uttering the vibrant, plaintive cry of a peewit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

It always came back, "returning like the peewit," at uncertain intervals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892] Reference

The peewit chirped, "He that hath no mercy for others, shall find none for himself.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Earth] Reference

The peewit flew up as she stumbled over the mound of earth where it had built its nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference

And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference

A peewit circles above them in the air, listening, then alights beside their bonfire, chirps, and addresses them in human speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections] Reference

“A peewit,” the adjutant, who had been looking for them, suddenly said at Grijpstra’s elbow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tumbleweed]

“peewit,” said a peewit, very remote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Man] Reference

"That is a peewit," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood Magic A Fable] Reference

While the peewit wheel'd around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference

"peewit," said a peewit, very remote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Man] Reference

It was Ram, and he was playing peewit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cutlass and Cudgel] Reference

I will back the peewit against the boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

“peewit, ” said a peewit, very remote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Thomas Marvel] Reference

The peewit, with their slow wings creaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1911-12] Reference

Others identify it with the English peewit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Marathi version of what the English peewit says.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

The mournful restless peewit has a constant fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference

peewits peewit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cats Meow] Reference

A weak little peewit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?] Reference

A disturbed peewit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference