português
quero-quero Sinônimos
Examples for "lapwing"
Examples for "lapwing"
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.