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There, awaiting him, was a dainty and temperamental merle, of the Tazewell strain.
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Clinical results were excellent according to a median Merle-d'Aubigné score of 18.
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Merle stood at the window, her face grey in the clammy light.
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Merle had finished dressing, and stood looking at herself in the glass.
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Morey tended bar himself since Merle Squire was at home with Lance.
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Mrs Bridgenorth reads placidly: Collins counts: a blackbird sings in the garden.
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A blackbird darted out of the hedge and away over the fields.
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The bird that most impressed me on my walk was the blackbird.
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Clear was the voice, and as sweet as the April blackbird sings.
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A blackbird had come into the tree and was singing blithely there.
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Colley means a blackbird; water-colley, the water-blackbird or water-ousel-calledthe dipper in the North.
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She was a handsome brunette-indeed, the squire called her a "black ousel."
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Sang I, sweet as the bright-billed ousel, a
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SO they journeyed until they came to the nest of an ousel, and Gwrhyr spoke to her.
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He sang the song of the "ousel cock," but he could not make himself heard.
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Off Merling Rock two days before, they had sighted a half-dozen fishing skiffs.
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There was little direct market impact seen from the attack, although shares of theme park operator Merlin Entertainments MERL.L fell 1.5 percent.
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The voice of the thrushes (and our robin and the Europeanblackbird are thrushes) is flute-like.
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Europeanblackbirds occasionally flock in winter and move from one country or area to another in search of food.
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The morning blackbird on our kitchen windowsill is an odd sort of Turdusmerula.
Usage of ouzel in anglès
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Another bird I love among the Alps is the dipper or water ouzel.
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The bluebird was in the Yosemite also, and the water-ouzel haunted the lucid waters.
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Closer inspection showed that the bird was a grey-winged ouzel.
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Who can hear the wild song of the ouzel and not feel an answering thrill?
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He is otherwise called the rose-coloured ouzel or starling.'
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But I have never seen a water-ouzel alive.
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I thought I guessed what black ouzel 'twas!
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The mellow ouzel fluting in the elm.
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The cock ouzel remained for fully five minutes with one eye on me, and then flew off.
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ON November 29th I saw a ring ouzel as it skittered downstream along the surface of a fast-flowing upland stream.
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Did not Stamp point out to him a water-ouzel, with impudently jerking tail, dipping and wading in the shallows of the stream?
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How beautiful is the adventure which has led our dipper or water-ouzel- abirdallied to the wrens-totry walking and flying under water!
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Shakespeare, in one of his songs, alludes to the blackbird as the ouzel-cock; indeed, he puts quite a flock of birds in this song:-
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I have never yet met ducks in any of the lakes of this kind, but the ouzel is never wanting where the feeding-streams are perennial.
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But the woods seemed deserted and empty; only those cheerful, impudent little bundles of feathers, the snowbirds, and an occasional, darting water-ouzel along the creeks.
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Looks like a bit of the rock itself, with moss all about it, and Gloria understood that it was her water-ouzel he was talking about.