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Meanings of pewit in inglês
espanhol
contopus Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
catalão
gavina riallera português
quero-quero Synonyms
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
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.
Usage of pewit in inglês
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.
6
I'll have a sprig of the evergreen pine and give the pewit call, and then you'll be sure.
7
Hinpoha listened to his disgruntled "pewit phoebe, pewit phoebe," and made haste to throw him some crumbs.
8
I distinctly remembered firing it at a pewit an hour before, for Edmee had wanted to examine the bird's plumage.
9
It is unmistakably spring, because the pewit bushes are budding and on yonder aspen we can hear a forsythia bursting into song.
10
The next morning, as she was finishing the beds, Jean heard the pewit call and at once knew that the Clan was abroad.
11
The pewit is universal on the hills, but will inevitably be driven away from all that portion of Salisbury Plain used for military purposes.
12
Hence stork and swallow are the friends of man, while the pewit dwells in exile, fleeing ever from his presence with its lonesome cry.
13
The characteristic species of this part of the down country, comprising the parish of Winterbourne Bishop, are the pewit, magpie, turtledove, mistle-thrush, and starling.
14
On the 7th, we saw a curlieu and a pewit, and on the 9th we caught a land-bird, very much resembling a starling.
15
Pewit, the lapwing, a species of plover.
16
What can a man know who lives all his life on a hill with pewits for gossips?
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Frequent collocations
Pewit through the time