Common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery.
1He was represented, in a hundred pamphlets, as the daw in borrowed plumes.
2A daw of the people, she had tried to peacock it among the gentry.
3Its invasion was not nearly as shy as the dawn's.
4No darkness, no tempest, no gloom, long confused his vision of 'the ideal dawn'.
5The dawn's new light fell across the Paladin as he climbed back astride his charger.
6She was a humble daw and knew her station.
7One would scarcely have been surprised to hear her say, "Cut-cut-cut-ca-daw-cut?"
8The cock doth craw, the day doth daw.
9And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
10Yet the cliff-breeders, albeit abundant enough, are but a minority of the daw population of this district.
11Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knives point, and choke a daw withal.
12You'd be cursed, and 'shot at dawn'!
13In a few hours, perhaps much less, it would be dawn-andthen there would be all too much light.
14Even the ornithologists who are interested in birds as birds haven't a good word to say of the daw.
15Upon return the fretted dawn
16This blemished radiance...this night-stung dawn