Except these, the plover and the curlew are the only inhabitants until you come to the Chesterfield high road. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
The curlew is a bird my father used to see a lot but these days not so much, we occasionally see small flocks near home now - they seem common here which makes me happy. From Wordnik.com. [Earth, Wind & Water] Reference
There are vast quantities of prickly pears, and myriads of grasshoppers, which afford food for a species of curlew which is in great numbers in the plain. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.] Reference
A curlew is a kind of bird. From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
A curlew called, it wild cry sending a shiver down her spine. From Wordnik.com. [Stay Through The Night]
A curlew called once in the distance, then twice, very close. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
Horseshoe curlew, the same as we shot at Daimara, common in the. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
There is one lizard and two waders, namely, a snipe and curlew. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
I'll stay until the curlew calls and the martlet takes his wing. From Wordnik.com. [Music For Sting's Favorite Season] Reference
As soon as I turn off the engine the curlew is away and running. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Shetland] Reference
There are some curlew about, and the guillemots are in thousands. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
We stopped, and I softly sounded my curlew-call -- once, twice, thrice. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars] Reference
And that wild cry overhead came from a curlew, the bird of the moorlands. From Wordnik.com. [Five Go Off To Camp]
The curlew ruffled its feathers and went back to its industrious digging. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
A blue heron flapped down beside him, and the curlew skipped off to another rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
A curlew, motionless on his long legs, calls cheerfully from the point of sand: "Curli -- Curli!". From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The bustard (Tetrax tetrax) and stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus) are still found in some areas. From Wordnik.com. [Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe] Reference
And first the voice of the curlew died; then the glint of the road vanished; and we were quite alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
The Tuamotus are also important wintering habitat for the Bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitensis). From Wordnik.com. [Tuamotu tropical moist forests] Reference
Slender-billed curlew Numenius tenuirostris (K) has occurred on passage (28 in 1971 and one or two in 1989). From Wordnik.com. [Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania] Reference
The curlew, in the early morning, stretches its neck and its wing as it sits on the roost, and utters a long note. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of the Great Plains] Reference
Among the other species of Bustards are the Little, or Field, and the thick-kneed, Stone-curlew, or Norfolk Plover. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832] Reference
The "seven whistlers" are curlew, or herringspear birds, thought to be storm-bringers when heard overhead at sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference
Darkness fell, and the call of an owl that hooted eerily, or the distant wail of a curlew, alone broke the stillness. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
A curlew was whistling on its invisible way, far up; and that wistful, wild calling seemed the very voice of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
None ever goes that way from choice, for only the crying of the curlew is heard there, or the querulous wailing lapwing. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
A curlew cried, breaking the enveloping silence, and on the grassy bank by the roadside I saw the first primroses of spring. From Wordnik.com. [Every living thing]
Clovelly herrings and Torridge salmon, Exmoor mutton and Stow venison, stubble geese and woodcocks, curlew and snipe, hams of. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
A low call came from a brooding curlew, a faint sigh from a plover, and the wild rasping cry of a lapwing greeted them overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
I had lain at high tide in a sand-pit at the edge of the open sea beyond the dunes, waiting for chance shots at curlew and snipe. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Her eyes dark, too were fixed on the curlew which, suddenly falling silent, was gliding to the heather some two hundred yards away. From Wordnik.com. [Rose cottage]
They could hear the curlew whistling and the plover calling amid that monotonous plash of the waves that murmured all around the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
Ned gathered oysters, which he found some distance down the river, caught fish and killed several heron and a young curlew with sticks. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
Grey plover and curlew scud across the road, a sign of hard weather, and near the rarer homesteads towers the hawk, looking for his prey. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
The other day the cute attitudes of a beach curlew interested me, as he stood upon a stone just awash, and ever and anon picked up a crab. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
He sailed by way of Iceland, where "fresh fish and dainty fowl, partridges, curlew, plover, teale, and goose" much refreshed the already discontented crews, and the hot baths of. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
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