Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
Sinônimos
Examples for "peewee"
Examples for "peewee"
1A very large marble is a bumbo and a very small one a peewee.
2Four times he drove the peewee farther than Charles did.
3But by some accident of eye and timing he beat his brother at peewee.
4When I was a kid, I was the only girl on the local peewee football team.
5There is more good sportsmanship in this series than you'll find on a half-dozen peewee soccer fields.
1If Mag had the sense of a pewee, she'd told me long ago.
2The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould.
3Of the smaller birds, the nuthatch, the wood and hermit thrush, whippoorwill, woodpeckers, wood-pewee, and others.
4See that sombre, ashen-colored pewee on yonder branch.
5The green-crested pewee builds its nest in many instances wholly of the blossoms of the white oak.
1No; it was flying after a peewit, and the dog caught it.
2He could imagine it uttering the vibrant, plaintive cry of a peewit.
3As he went the cry of a peewit rose in the morning air
4It was a haunt of the cuckoo and peewit, the bunting and carrion crow.
5Nay, it is my man Dick, calling like a peewit.
1Remember the pewit call if we lose sight of each other.
2She puckered her lips and gave the pewit call, but there was no answer.
3If you see a man, keep still in your places and give the pewit call.
4I, too, heard the pewit's plaint in my childhood and caught the sun-fish in the brook.
5He gave the pewit's call and waited.
1The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould.
2Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic not of the wood pewee.
3Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic note of the wood pewee.
4The wood pewee, the prevailing species in this locality, arrests your attention by his sweet, pathetic cry.
5It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this.
6But the wood pewee is an exception.
7The wood pewee builds a neat, compact, socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch.
8I noted but one nest of the wood pewee, and that, too, like so many other nests, failed of issue.
9The note of the wood pewee is a human sigh; the chickadee has a call full of unspeakable tenderness and fidelity.
10The common or wood pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest.
11The wood pewees show that devotion to each other and to their home, characteristic of their family.
12"Then the Wood Pewee builds late, like the Cedar Waxwing and Goldfinch?"
13"If you please," Peter inquired politely, "why do folks call you Wood Pewee?"
14See also several of the Swallows; the Kingbird, the Phoebe, the Wood Pewee and other Flycatchers; the Chimney Swift; and the Chewink.
15"You haven't given us any table for the Wood Pewee," said Dodo, who always took great pleasure in writing in her little book.
Translations for wood pewee