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Meanings of ousel in English
Portuguese
melro-preto Catalan
merla Synonyms
Examples for "merle"
Examples for "merle"
1
There, awaiting him, was a dainty and temperamental merle, of the Tazewell strain.
2
Clinical results were excellent according to a median Merle-d'Aubigné score of 18.
3
Merle stood at the window, her face grey in the clammy light.
4
Merle had finished dressing, and stood looking at herself in the glass.
5
Morey tended bar himself since Merle Squire was at home with Lance.
1
Mrs Bridgenorth reads placidly: Collins counts: a blackbird sings in the garden.
2
A blackbird darted out of the hedge and away over the fields.
3
The bird that most impressed me on my walk was the blackbird.
4
Clear was the voice, and as sweet as the April blackbird sings.
5
A blackbird had come into the tree and was singing blithely there.
1
Another bird I love among the Alps is the dipper or water ouzel.
2
The bluebird was in the Yosemite also, and the water-ouzel haunted the lucid waters.
3
Closer inspection showed that the bird was a grey-winged ouzel.
4
Who can hear the wild song of the ouzel and not feel an answering thrill?
5
He is otherwise called the rose-coloured ouzel or starling.'
1
Off Merling Rock two days before, they had sighted a half-dozen fishing skiffs.
2
There was little direct market impact seen from the attack, although shares of theme park operator Merlin Entertainments MERL.L fell 1.5 percent.
1
The voice of the thrushes (and our robin and the European blackbird are thrushes) is flute-like.
2
European blackbirds occasionally flock in winter and move from one country or area to another in search of food.
1
The morning blackbird on our kitchen windowsill is an odd sort of Turdus merula.
Usage of ousel in English
1
Colley means a blackbird; water-colley, the water-blackbird or water-ousel-calledthe dipper in the North.
2
She was a handsome brunette-indeed, the squire called her a "black ousel."
3
Sang I, sweet as the bright-billed ousel, a
4
SO they journeyed until they came to the nest of an ousel, and Gwrhyr spoke to her.
5
He sang the song of the "ousel cock," but he could not make himself heard.
6
The ousel cock, so black of hue
7
Under the roots of alders the water-ousel often creeps by day, and the tall heron stalks past at night.
8
And the ousel answered:
9
The Aino believe that the heart of the water-ousel is exceedingly wise, and that in speech the bird is most eloquent.
10
The water-ousel plucks moss from the riverbank to build its nest, but is does not improve the moss by plucking it.
11
A water-ousel with white breast rises and flies on; again disturbed, he makes a circle, and returns to the stream behind.
12
The ousel haunts them, while still hang about their coasts the thin undercut drifts that never quite leave the high altitudes.
13
Suddenly, I heard the familiar whir of an ousel's wings, and, looking up, saw my little comforter coming straight from the shore.
14
Down in the brush by the river was the happy little water-ousel, as cheerful in his way as the dumpy-built musical canyon wren.
15
We now begin to expect our vernal migration of ring-ousels every week.
16
They went forward until they came to the Ousel of Cilgwri.
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Frequent collocations
Ousel through the time