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portuguès
quero-quero
Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs.
lapwing
peewit
pewit
portuguès
quero-quero
lapwing
peewit
pewit
1
Suddenly it put forth wings, turned into a
lapwing
and flew away.
2
Up in the heather the
lapwing
flew about flapping her wings.
3
The curlew is saying good-night to the
lapwing
on the hill.
4
Putrid fish and the remains of a black-crested
lapwing
floated in the willows.
5
The
lapwing
is a kind of plover, and is very swift of foot.
1
No; it was flying after a
peewit
,
and the dog caught it.
2
He could imagine it uttering the vibrant, plaintive cry of a
peewit
.
3
As he went the cry of a
peewit
rose in the morning air
4
It was a haunt of the cuckoo and
peewit
,
the bunting and carrion crow.
5
Nay, it is my man Dick, calling like a
peewit
.
1
Remember the
pewit
call if we lose sight of each other.
2
She puckered her lips and gave the
pewit
call, but there was no answer.
3
If you see a man, keep still in your places and give the
pewit
call.
4
I, too, heard the
pewit
's
plaint in my childhood and caught the sun-fish in the brook.
5
He gave the
pewit
's
call and waited.
1
One alone amongst them, the
green
plover
,
was opposed to this.
2
Then the
green
plover
came in crying, and all alighted.
3
Green
plover
,
or lapwings, are numerous enough on the Cotswolds.
4
Upon approaching the rising ground at Ewell
green
plovers
or peewits become plentiful in the cornfields.
5
The
green
plovers
are the only things of life that save the earth from utter loneliness.
6
The stars were shining far away in the dark sky, and the
green
plovers
were crying mournfully on the dark moor.
7
Along the sea coast and river banks were many birds; gulls, divers or loons, golden plovers,
green
plovers
,
curlews, geese, and swans.
8
Green
plovers
,
or peewits, come in small flocks to the fields recently ploughed; sometimes scarcely a gunshot from the walls of the villas.
9
The meadow might have been called a plovery-aswe say rookery and heronry-forthe
green
plovers
or peewits always had several nests in it.
green
plover
green
portuguès
quero-quero