American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys.
1Well, the chimney swift carries a gluepot with him.
2The chimney swift loves his chimney, too.
3The chimney swift is, properly speaking, not a swallow at all, though chimney swallow is its more popular name.
4A nighthawk or an oilbird, a lone nightingale or chimney swift out of its element, nothing as large as an owl.
5The chimney swift or swallow uses wood and glue in making the pretty little bracket-like basket he fastens to the chimney wall.
6The Chimney Swift had hardly finished his story when there was another excitement.
7Silhouetted against the silver incandescent sky, chimney swifts were darting into their nests.
8Not a single nightingale performed, and even the chimney swifts had gone to bed.
9At that moment a Chimney Swift joined the group.
10The Chimney Swift has made himself one of them, that they may never be defeated.
11They call him the Chimney Swift, because he flies so fast, and you must always give him his right name.
12"Please, Olive, won't you tell us the table for the Chimney Swift now?"
13See also several of the Swallows; the Kingbird, the Phoebe, the Wood Pewee and other Flycatchers; the Chimney Swift; and the Chewink.
14"He is a sort of second cousin, the same as Sooty the Chimney Swift," explained Jenny Wren.
15"I believe you told me the other day that Boomer is related to Sooty the Chimney Swift," said Peter.
16"I'd like to know what there is about Sooty the Chimney Swift that could possibly make a Swallow jealous."