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Meanings of wagtails in English
Usage of wagtails in English
1
He had thought out the meaning of the wagtails building in his hand.
2
Most small birds hop; but wagtails and larks walk, moving their legs alternately.
3
The wagtails have returned to O'Connell Street in Dublin, on the GPO side.
4
Pied wagtails hunted flies among the vertebrae strewn over the field behind the factory.
5
The little wagtails built and shaped busily all day, and the work progressed rapidly.
6
Like the wagtails, she looked in harmony with her surroundings.
7
Hume records a case of a pair of pied wagtails nesting in a ferry-boat.
8
A pair of yellow wagtails arrived and played at hide-and-seek among the stuccoed pillars.
9
These worshippers of animals are as cautious as water- wagtails.
10
The name is not a particularly good one, because wagtails proper occur in the Himalayas.
11
Hither and thither flit the wagtails, finding little half-uncovered stones in the current to perch upon.
12
The offering of a few crumbs is appreciated by two grey wagtails, but our search continues.
13
The wagtails, on the contrary, are tame and confiding throughout all places, whether civilised or savage.
14
Then the wagtails began to build again, without troubling themselves any more about nature's many wonders.
15
By the middle of the month the pied wagtails and pied bush chats are in full song.
16
Allied to the wagtails are the pipits.
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