| 单词 | bittern |
| 例句 | It was called The Golden Child and it was a huge open-air salon through which no less than two hundred bitterns who told the time with a deafening cackling strolled at will. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The bitterns boomed and the marsh harriers skimmed over the reeds and millions of widgeon and mallard and tufted ducks flew about m various wedges, looking like champagne bottles balanced on a nimbus of wings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Likewise, the inclusion of local communities was key to the Australasian bittern, a type of bird, moving from endangered to vulnerable. As the World Scrambles to Halt Biodiversity Loss, ‘Things Are Getting Worse’ 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z At Westhay Nature Reserve, sphagnum moss and sundews form a carpet on the boggy ground and the wetlands attract rare birds such as bitterns and curlews. Climate change: England's gardeners face peat compost ban 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Britain's loudest bird, the "booming" bittern, is making a recovery after almost disappearing from the UK twice. RSPB: Bitterns make booming recovery in UK wetlands 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Here, in the bittern’s croak, in the turtle’s cluck and whine, in Miles Davis’s trumpet, is “evolution drunk on its own aesthetic energies.” Earth’s Sonic Diversity, Secret Bird Scents, Pandemic-Inspired Sci-Fi, and More 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Vertebrates are getting almost 500 times more funding for each species than invertebrates, with Brown bears, wolves, bitterns and Eurasian lynxes the dazzling stars of conservation funding. Trump says 'we're doing incredibly' as Biden faces reality | First Thing 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z At Huntley Meadows Park in Alexandria, Va., wildlife managers are using bioacoustics to compare different water levels with the number of visits from species such as American bitterns, Virginia rails and pied-billed grebes. With bioacoustics, conservationists try to save birds through their songs 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Elsewhere on the marshes, secretive night herons and little bitterns have also bred in recent years. A warm welcome? The wildlife visitors warning of climate disaster 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Unlike other birds, the male bittern does not use its voice box but muscles around his windpipe to expand his entire gullet into an echo chamber. RSPB: Bitterns make booming recovery in UK wetlands 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The landscaping project is intended to attract birds including marsh harriers, bitterns, common cranes, lapwings and redshanks. Expanded nature reserve 'could protect homes' 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Amongst the first class are capercailzie, … wild duck, and bittern; and amongst the shy ones with camouflaged eggs are lapwing, … ring plover, and golden plover. From the archive 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Britain's loudest bird the bittern is booming with populations at a record high, according to conservationists. Record year for Britain's loudest bird 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Either way, you’ll be gliding silently on the water — one of the best ways to see shy wildlife such as marsh wrens and least bitterns. 15 unconventional ways to celebrate the National Park Service centennial 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Dr Lees said the success of wetland conservation "isn't just about bitterns". RSPB: Bitterns make booming recovery in UK wetlands 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Another unusual species more often heard than seen on the refuge is the American bittern. Montana refuge a haven for migratory and grassland birds 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z One of the UK's most threatened birds - the bittern - is returning to England and Wales, according to conservationists. Numbers show threatened bittern is booming again - RSPB - BBC News 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The paper notes that in 1997, only 11 male bitterns were detected in the country. 'Quiz Blair' call and Miliband's migrant move 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z This spring and summer, look for dragonflies, black ducks, green tree frogs and birds such as bitterns, rails and green herons. Huntley Meadows Park restores hemi-marsh 2014-05-02T23:09:58Z "We hope that one day the boom of the bittern will be heard around the UK once more." RSPB: Bitterns make booming recovery in UK wetlands 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z At-risk waterfowl like pied-billed grebes and ruddy ducks, and wading birds like glossy ibises and American bitterns thrive with access to both freshwater and saltwater. Environmental Group Proposes Options for Breached Pond at Jamaica Bay 2014-02-11T02:54:33Z Species on the marsh include marsh harriers, bitterns, avocets and spoonbills. Video: Falling star captured on camera 2013-09-14T09:09:54Z Other high-priority species identified by the report, some of which are already protected by state and federal agencies, include the piping plover, the tricolored heron and the least bittern. Green Blog: Mending the Bird Preserves Hit by Sandy 2013-01-04T13:17:53Z Exactly what the bittern is doing to make the sound is unknown, because it is a rare, secretive and well camouflaged animal. The UK's five weirdest sounding places 2012-12-29T02:31:43Z Then there is the somewhat better defined group of little bitterns, containing about a dozen species—the smallest of the whole family. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Here, on a sandy islet, flashed the scarlet and blue of little kingfishers, contrasting with the sober grey of the bittern, or the black and white of the vulture. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z The bittern has vanished; the loon has fled away. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z Rare video footage has shown the bittern's throat swelling up and the body convulsing as the air is gulped in. The UK's five weirdest sounding places 2012-12-29T02:31:43Z From time to time, in the silence of the night, could be heard the deep, lugubrious, indistinct note of the bittern. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The frogs croaked round us, the bog moaned and gurgled; in the depth of the marsh the bitterns boomed mournfully. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z At this comprehensive question, the bittern gave a hollow croak, and flew away with his long legs trailing behind him. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z Such chromatic attributes were well in harmony with the intense stillness, broken only by the rustle now and then of whirring wings, or the sharp boom of the frightened bittern. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z From the far distance was heard the loud cry of the bittern. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, h?llow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z There was a splash, a wild cry of alarm, and up flew a great bittern. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z There were fewer birds; I saw no grave herons, no sombre bitterns, and the fish had grown shy. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z The Herons nest in flocks; the bitterns are not as sociable. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z A booming bittern I know sits hour after hour, almost every day in summer, year after year, on a dark, decaying pile of an old dock in the creek. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The bell, or boom, of the bittern The bittern's hollow bill was heard. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z When both barrels were emptied, I had time to perceive that a bittern was slowly flapping away. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The solitary bittern, called in Irish the Boonaun-Laynagh, frequents the low-lying ground on the Galway side of the island, and hares and rabbits are very plentiful also. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z The plover, scared from its nest, uttered its peculiar and plaintive cry; the bittern shrieked; other night-fowl poured forth their doleful notes; and the bull-frog added its deep croak to the ominous concert. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z An intense silence brooded over that vast wilderness called the Drowned Lands; not a bittern croaked, not a wild duck stirred among the reeds. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Whole swarms of water-fowl then mount into the air, whose rueful, monotonous croaking is only broken by the melancholy piping of the bittern and the whistle of the green turtle. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z In a grotto at the foot of some ruins a dead bittern and two partridges are hanging. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z So long as this waste land was tenanted only by the “owl and the bittern,” Legal Rights slumbered. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Nesting black-ducks rose on clattering wings in scores and scores at our stealthy invasion; herons and bitterns flapped heavily skyward; great chain-pike, as long as a young boy, slid like shadows under our dipping paddles. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. µ The common European bittern is Botaurus stellaris. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But seeing that it was no common heron, he had it examined, and it was found to be a bittern, and as such was carefully preserved. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Your ear has long been accustomed to the watery clangor of the bittern, when a new yet familiar sound strikes it, the thin, vibrant bass of the first bullfrog's note. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z And to lament the absence of others - bitterns, munias, Siberian cranes and vultures - all once plentiful here. Avian capital 2011-07-02T11:11:03Z The mocking-bird, the whip-poor-will, the bittern, the bell-frog, grasshoppers, wolves, and alligators, all joined in the harmony incident to the hour of night, causing a din startling to the ear of a stranger. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z From those meadows came the voices of land rails; bitterns were calling in the distant reeds. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z It was the last visit of bitterns to the place; even then they were so rare as not to be recognised: now the progress of agriculture has entirely banished them. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Even the poor bittern and heron, harmless and worthless, flap to and fro from one to another now unsafe retreat, in constant danger of death from every booby gunner who can cover their slow flight. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z For example, the bittern will stand rigid with its bill pointed skyward for many minutes if it suspects an enemy. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z There was a bittern, she had discovered, in those swamps. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z We put up a bittern, but did not find her nest. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z The wings are made from a feather out of the wing of the partridge or woodcock, the body with a bittern's feather, and the head with a little of the brown part of hare's fur. Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies 2011-04-04T02:00:10.823Z But there are more woful days when the sun and the sky are again opened to him, and he breathes the warm air of spring, hears the blackbirds sing and the bittern boom. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Mr Hatch said the most likely scenario was that the bittern took refuge from freezing temperatures in France and Ireland is the last westerly land mass for them to escape to. Irish bitterns back after 150 years 2011-01-01T15:08:09Z She would make it acquainted with the frogs, and introduce it to the bittern. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z The species of Ardeinae or Herons, are there even much more numerous, there being fifteen of them including true herons, egrets, and bitterns. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Another fly with the same body, and wings of the bittern's neck, two feathers should be tied in, and the whole to stand well up. Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies 2011-04-04T02:00:10.823Z A bittern awoke and rose with a scream into the air. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z This is tremendously exciting news because bitterns became extinct here in the mid-19th century. Irish bitterns back after 150 years 2011-01-01T15:08:09Z The full story of the "booming" bittern will be broadcast at BST1900 on the One Show on BBC One on Thursday 6 May. 'Booming' bittern finally filmed 2010-05-06T07:52:00Z The larger birds are the bittern, great and small bustard, eagle, francolin, goose; giant, grey and red-legged partridge, sand grouse, pelican, pheasant, stork and swan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" “Let me see, that’s your local name for the bittern, is it not?” The Parson O' Dumford Ar�dea, the genus to which the heron belongs, type of the family Ardēid�, which includes also cranes, storks, bitterns, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Earlier in December, a bittern was seen in Worcestershire. Irish bitterns back after 150 years 2011-01-01T15:08:09Z Seeing let alone filming a male bittern booming in daylight is incredibly difficult. 'Booming' bittern finally filmed 2010-05-06T07:52:00Z I waited for Edith, and in a moment we were walking under the magnolias, listening to the twilight boomings of a bittern on the lagoon. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery The bittern in the days of falconry was strictly preserved, and afforded excellent sport. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Quaint, unwieldy bitterns flap their slow way to nests well hidden in the reeds. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Rails as a rule are smaller than bitterns and frequent grassy marshes where they steal stealthily about, effectively concealed by their dull streaky plumage. Wild Birds in City Parks Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago Early last century, the bittern returned and its numbers steadily increased to a peak of around 80 booming males in the 1950s. 'Booming' bittern finally filmed 2010-05-06T07:52:00Z Some dark heron or bittern rose croaking from beside the lagoon, then flapped awkwardly away. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Southey, for instance, boomed his verses so as to be mistaken by Wilson, who was a keen sportsman, for a bittern booming. Methods of Authors The bittern alone responded to his voice, as he flew screaming by; or the bullfrog croaked dolefully from a neighborly pool. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 II Behind me lie the Everglades, Where the bittern wails to the moon's face. Sea Poems Despite efforts to save it, the future of the bittern in the UK remains uncertain. 'Booming' bittern finally filmed 2010-05-06T07:52:00Z Along the creeks and river sides, and in the wet savannas, six species of the bittern will engage your attention. Wanderings in South America If this is true, Southey's voice must not have been very harmonious, for the bittern's cry is Shakespeare's "night-raven's dismal voice." Methods of Authors The bittern alone responded to his voice, as he flew screaming by; or the bull-frog croaked dolefully from a neighbouring pool. Devil Stories An Anthology Was it war, or pestilence, or captivity, that made of the populous city a den of wolves, a resort for hoot owl and bittern and fox? Through Our Unknown Southwest While 82 booming males are known, during many years fewer than half the sites they live in are also inhabited by female bitterns. 'Booming' bittern finally filmed 2010-05-06T07:52:00Z From time to time a deep note sounds through the night—the boom of the bittern, that hermit of the marsh. Timar's Two Worlds There are numerous species in these sheltered channels, inlets and sounds of geese, ducks, swans, cormorants, ibises, bitterns, red-beaks, curlew, snipe, plover and moorhens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" I might swear sounding oaths—oaths that would make the poachers think there was a bittern booming in Bilberry Moss—that, in the case you put, death only should have parted me from Mary. Shirley It's the boom of the bittern as it plunges its huge, wader's beak to the bed of the swamp…. Letters from my Windmill To date, just 39 bittern nests producing chicks are known, an increase from 12 nests in previous years. 'Booming' bittern finally filmed 2010-05-06T07:52:00Z Yet what she loses on one side she gains on another; she is like that least bittern Mr. Frank M. Chapman tells about. Ways of Nature The order Heridiones includes the herons, the bitterns, the storks, spoonbill, ibis, &c. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 In the swamp a bittern booms; and strange wailing cries come from the depths of the bush. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand He falls like a cat on the mother grouse Brooding her young in the wind-bent weeds, Or listens to heed with a start of greed The bittern booming from river reeds. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse The "return of the booming bittern" will be broadcast at BST1900 on the One Show on BBC One on Thursday 6 May. 'Booming' bittern finally filmed 2010-05-06T07:52:00Z Two of the bittern's five eggs had been punctured by the long-billed marsh wren. Ways of Nature After this he passed the night without any other molestation than being occasionally awaked by the whooping of owls, the screaming of bitterns, or by wood-rats running among the leaves. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge "Well, rest thee; for the bittern's cry Sings us the lake's wild lullaby." Lady of the Lake An ugly brown bittern, with a harsh exclamation of surprise at the intrusion into his quiet domain, shot across the bow and disappeared into the swamp. The End of the Rainbow As if to strengthen the illusion, I could hear the cry of the bittern, and the screech of the owl, echoing through the aisles of the forest—sounds elsewhere suggestive of night and darkness. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks where stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature When natural salt waters evaporate, bromine is one of the last materials to be precipitated, and the residual "mother liquors" or bitterns frequently show a considerable concentration of the bromine. The Economic Aspect of Geology Up from the reeds a bittern will now and then start. The Foot-path Way At the same time also the “boom” of the bittern might still be heard in the marshy parts of the same ground, but they are also now among the has been’s. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Low in the dust thy boasted beauty lies; Loud through thy princely domes the bittern cries, And the night wind in mournful cadence sighs. Enthusiasm and Other Poems Our robins and bluebirds are of the orchard and the home of man, but who can claim neighbourship to the bittern or the bullfrog? The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year I gave him a bittern’s claw to bring him good luck at shooting. Puck of Pook’s Hill A northern name for the bittern, from its habit of thrusting its bill into marshy places. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The river ran near by, And on its bank was heard the bittern's cry, For May had come again. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 Besides, he had heard the boom of a bittern that morning. The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse The bittern booms again as we row down the peaceful river, and we leave the marshland to its ancient and rightful owners. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Harty, the telegraph editor, was trying to do his work—trying, I say, because the orator was booming away like a bittern within three feet of him and Harty plainly was pestered and fretful. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights The bittern, so called on our east coast. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. From far away—where the marshes stretched their limitless expanse toward the sea—came the melancholy cry of a bittern, calling to his absent mate. "Unto Caesar" She scaled the seaward crests, And on the sands piled turtle eggs, when all About hoarse-shrieked the water-fowl, or call Of plovers fell among the tangled glens, Or lonely bitterns’ boom came o’er the fens. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman And common salt also affords a small quantity of this powder; because being separated from the bittern by one hasty crystallization only, it necessarily contains a portion of that liquor. Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances He uttered an exclamation of delight as he ran forward, observing that it was a bittern of a peculiar and rare species, of which he had not a single specimen in his collection. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting The bittern has been twice shot near the same spot within the last twenty years. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account But I have read some poetry, and I remember what Thomson says in 'The Seasons': The bittern knows his time with bill ingulf'd To shake the sounding marsh. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman A continuous booming noise as of a bittern calling to its young was varied with heavy grunts and occasional blows of a heavy bludgeon on metal. No Man's Land Below, out of the swamp sedge, rises the mournful cry of the quabird—the American bittern—and from the same, the deep sonorous bellow of that ugliest animal on earth—the alligator. The Death Shot A Story Retold Our Archdeacon booms—not like trade, but like the bittern. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 She records the musical tinkling of distant cow-bells and the mournful cry of the bittern. Mary Wollstonecraft See also 'The Lady of the Lake': And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman "Well, rest thee; for the bittern's cry80 Sings us the lake's wild lullaby." The Ontario High School Reader The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 Other herons and bitterns have grown smaller and more graceful, with shorter legs and necks, to suit our diminishing rivers and our changed landscape. Wood Folk at School It was not as lonely as sleeping lakes are where the bittern booms like a drum.... The Wind Bloweth So far as I know, the bittern thing has no voice at all. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman The promontories to the open sea are very fine: beetling cliffs of black, red, and green volcanic rocks, and here and there stand up rocky islets, the home of the cormorant and the bittern. Southern Arabia There was also venison, a swan boiled, roasted pheasant and roasted bittern, with fish of various sorts—pike and perch. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham It was an age when the sick were plied with such delicate restoratives as ‘mummy and the flesh of hedge-hogs,’ and tables loaded with such dainties as cranes, lapwings, sea-gulls, bitterns and curlews. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine; Herons and bitterns, peacocks, swan, and bustard, Teal, mallard, pigeons, widgeons, and, in fine. In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Personally I do not know a bittern from an olive-backed thrush. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman Sir Walter Scott uses the participle: "The bittern booming from the sedgy shallow." Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. He said, and stood awaiting for the sign, And heard, above the hoarse, bough-bending wind, The hill-wolf howling on the neighboring height, And bittern booming in the pool below. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 In the list of birds served up to table were many fowls which are now discarded as little better than rank carrion, such as cranes, lapwings, sea-gulls, bitterns, ruffs, kerlews, etc. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 The substitution of potassium chlorate for pyrolusite is recommended when calcium chloride is present in the bittern. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" It is, of course, now established that the bittern "booms"—not in the mud—but in the air. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman And here are fowls less and more, Herons, cranes and bittern; Swans, peacocks, have them before! "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Who, o'er her palaces and buried towers, Shall bid the owl hoot, and the bittern scream; And on her pensile groves and pleasant shades 80 Pour the deep waters of forgetfulness. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan The glimpse I had of the bittern lake having sharpened my appetite to see it, I descended the staircase of the Lancaster turret, and marching off in a southerly direction hastened towards its shores. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath Mourn, sooty coots, and speckled teals; Ye fisher herons, watching eels: Ye duck and drake, wi’ airy wheels Circling the lake; Ye bitterns, till the quagmire reels, Rair for his sake. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow; And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The awkward, wary bittern and the still more vigilant least bittern are familiar residents here. Some Summer Days in Iowa Or only a bittern cronk, Then all was still? Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen The bittern is also a bird of ill omen. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter The bittern booms in the thickets of grey willow and wet-shot alder. The Black Douglas Things boom overhead like bitterns, or scutter alongside like hares, or arise dripping and hissing from below like otters. Sea Warfare The flocks lie down in the midst thereof: the cormorant and bittern lodge in the temples and palaces. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy There were a lot of snipe with them and about twenty bitterns, which surprises me. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years But though he was looking full at the big bird, he could not see it, which is the bittern's own private little bit of magic. The Way of the Wild "I will also make it a possession for the bittern and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts." Companion to the Bible The bittern clamor'd from the moss, The wind blew loud and shrill; Yet the craggy pathway she did cross To the eiry Beacon Hill. The Haunted Hour An Anthology It led by sullen pools, where the bittern boomed and the pike swam, his silver side glittering like a streak of light beneath the dark surface, as he sought his finny prey. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars And about eighty miles north of here there is a mud flat where great numbers of mallards are assembling for migration northwards: and there are more bitterns there than there are higher up even. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years Now, if there was one thing more than another about which the colonel prided himself in his bird sanctuary, it was the presence of the bittern. The Way of the Wild Yet the lark's shrill fife may come, At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader As this mixture of substances naturally suggested the composition of the "mother liquors" from salt brines, Mr. Price made an analysis of such a sample of "bittern" from the Snow Hill furnace, Kanawha Co., Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Babylon died slowly, but at length the words of the Hebrew prophet were fulfilled: The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it.... Myths of Babylonia and Assyria I expect the mallards will migrate northwards, and the teal soon afterwards will become very scarce, but I hope the bitterns will stay where they are. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years I don't know where the bittern came from, nor does the colonel. The Way of the Wild Perhaps bitterns may also formerly have frequented some of the countries belonging to it, though they are not mentioned among the birds of the region by modern writers. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The black ducks mounting from the lake, The pigeon in the pines, The bittern’s boom, a desert make Which no false art refines. May-Day and Other Pieces Still rarer in such situations is the bittern, the Timon of birds, the rushes being seldom high enough to afford him the strict concealment he likes. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 You know that papa once caught a bittern. Gritli's Children The bird was a bittern, relation of the herons, only brown, and if not quite so long, made up for it in strength and fiery, highly developed courage. The Way of the Wild Herons stood in the shallows; a bittern, squawking, rose from the saw-grass, circled, and pitched downward again. The Firing Line The magpie chattered, the jay screamed and flew deeper into the woods as the horsemen approached, and the shy bittern hid herself amid the rushes. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Of the bittern, which is said to boom continually over the Friesland meres, I caught no glimpse and heard no sound. A Wanderer in Holland "I was only thinking more of my receipt than of your bittern, Fred." Gritli's Children He came upon something unknown, but certainly not a lone bull, bellowing too; it was the bittern, and he gave that plenty of room. The Way of the Wild The great blue heron and American bittern are not common, but less rare than they are supposed to be. Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 Grouse, plover, and bittern were found upon its moors; woodcock and snipe on its marshes; mallard, teal, and widgeon upon its pools. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest There were seven sorts of soup, then patties of capon, and the ham of the wild boar; then partridge, pheasant, peacock, bittern, heron, bustard, gosling, woodcock and swan. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees In answer to a telephonic inquiry on the matter Mr. POCOCK, of the Zoological Gardens, was heard to murmur, "Once bittern, twice shy." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 I went to the other islets, searched bog and tangle, and finally pulled away disappointed, giving the least bittern credit for considerable mother-wit and woodcraft. Roof and Meadow "Don't be disturbed! 'tis, in the reeds, The bittern's changeless booming." Faust In the second were all kinds of game and wild-fowl, roast herons three in a dish, bitterns, cranes, bustards, curlews, dotterels, and pewits. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The buffalo browsed where emperors had feasted, and the bittern winged its slow flight over the fields of forgotten battles. The Waters of Edera One of the rarest of British birds, the great bittern, is reported to have been seen in the Eastern counties during the recent cold spell. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 Within three paddle-lengths of my boat, in a patch of dark that must be a nest, stood my least bittern. Roof and Meadow The claim is the admixture of bittern water, carbonate of soda, and carbonate of ammonia with the washed slag and cement. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Now the bull-frog croaks in the marsh, and a deep booming tells of a bittern passing by. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest "I hear the bittern boom, and the woodpecker tap, but that is all." The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune I have also caught them preparing and eating sea gulls, terns, blue heron, egret and even the bittern. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The night was full of sounds, but whether earthly; from wildfowl and bittern and curlew, from fox, and badger, and otter; or from the evil spirits of the marsh, I knew not nor cared. A Thane of Wessex Yon pale, scrawny fisher fools, Gaunt as bitterns in the pools, Are no brothers of my blood;— They discredit Adamhood. Poems Household Edition All these wading birds the herons, the cranes, the bitterns, the snipes, and the plovers are almost necessarily, by the very nature of their typical conformation, beautiful and graceful in form. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Bromine, an elementary fluid of a dark colour and a disagreeable smell, extracted from bittern, a liquid which remains after the separation of salt. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge On Monday the 1st October, at day-break a gull was seen, and some others before noon resembling bitterns; and the weeds now set from east to west. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time When we reached the end of the slew, we turned south and crossed the creek just above the pond which we called Plum Pudd'n' Pond, from the number of bitterns that lived there. Vandemark's Folly There were great quantities of a cinnamon-coloured bittern seen, as well as quails, doves, and large plovers, but not any of the bustards mentioned by Flinders. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The latter was of a French grey hue, with the exception of the head, which was black and of the shape of a bittern, commonly known among the colonists by the name of native companion. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. The handsomest was the richly colored tiger bittern. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Among the dainties of the feathered kind, enumerated in this entertainment, Mr. Nichols mentions herons, bitterns, godwites, dotterels, shovelers, curlews, and knots. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Here on the banks they watched the bitterns rise and sail heavily away, and finally in silence commenced the genuine sport. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 And night by night the fitful gale Doth carry past the bittern's boom, The dingo's yell, the plover's wail, While lumbering shadows start, and loom, And hiss through gloom. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens One of them carried a young bittern which they had caught upon the moor, and they offered it to Alleyne for a silver groat. The White Company There are a great many competent editorial writers, and the bittern carrying on his trade by the side of some swamp is about as influential as ten ordinary editorial writers rolled into one. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers It was not till the end of half an hour that two figures were seen above the parapet of the dreary old pile, motionless as bitterns on a ruined mosque. A Pair of Blue Eyes The sunset gold still glowed on the lawn, and the bittern still boomed as announcing some small but dreadful destiny. The Innocence of Father Brown He bolted half a mile with the first boom of the bittern, and his hat lifted with every yelp of the sheitpoke. Freckles It was a common sound in those parts—as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. The White Company Nor will he pass "the hollow-sounding bittern" of the Deserted Village. De Libris: Prose and Verse And if the little fishes in the river were to stand on their tails in wonderment and the bitterns on the trees did the same—I wouldn't lose one second—now! The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II This signal was answered from the neighborhood of the fire, whereupon the abbé gave the strange, resonant cry of the bittern. The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage The deep, impenetrable marsh, where the heron waded, and bittern squatted, is made pervious to our swift shoes, as if a thousand railroads had been made into it. Excursions This bird, we are told, is of the bittern kind, somewhat less than the lapwing. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time In summer nights the droning of the bittern could be heard across the meadows, and woodcock came down familiarly from the hills to look for worms in the vegetable-garden. Sketches from Concord and Appledore In the far distance I could hear the faint cry of a bittern in some lonely marsh. Frenzied Fiction As we went back to have t'other fuddling bout, we spied an old green-headed bish-hawk, who sat moping with his mate and three jolly bittern attendants, all snoring under an arbour. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Along the creeks and river-sides, and in the wet savannas, six species of the bittern will engage your attention. Wanderings in South America The porcupine, or kephad, is spoken of in the writings of Isaiah under the denomination of the bittern. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time A live bittern in a cage of laths was an unusual curiosity. Sketches from Concord and Appledore The air throbbed with the cries of geese and bitterns. Tales of the Wilderness A mangrove bittern sitting humpbacked on a root and roused from its night thoughts has flown ahead, following the bends of the stream until it crossed a familiar loop and so evaded incessant harrying. Tropic Days The echoes are in us of great voices long gone hence, the unknown cries of huge beasts on the mountains; the sullen aims of creatures in the slime; the love-call of the bittern. Gone to Earth "I will make Babylon a possession for the bittern and pools of water." Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Gone are ruffs and reeves, spoonbills, bitterns, avosets; the very snipe, one hears, disdains to breed. Prose Idylls, New and Old Yonder stands, against the shore, a bittern, motionless in that wreath of mist which makes his long-legged person almost as dim as his far-off booming by night. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Alike, when heard the bittern's hollow bill, Or the first woodcocks roam'd the moonlight hill. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Some modern nations, the French among others," says Monsieur Soyer, "formerly ate the heron, crane, crow, stork, swan, cormorant, and bittern. The Book of Household Management There are a great number of characters, there is scenery too, there's a crescent moon, there's a bittern that cries far, far away: "Boo-oo! boo-oo!" like a cow shut up in a shed. Letters of Anton Chekhov The great bustard, the crane, and bittern have been driven away by cultivation. The Life of the Fields We start numerous wild ducks and swamp-hens, and perhaps a bittern or two, by these conflagrations. Station Life in New Zealand In youth's keen eye the livelong day was bright, The sun at morning, and the stars at night, Alike, when first the bittern's hollow bill Was heard, or woodcocks roamed the moonlight hill. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Belon says, that in spite of its revolting taste when unaccustomed to it, the bittern is, however, among the delicious treats of the French. The Book of Household Management They were carried on the hand of the huntsman, and launched at unlucky herons and bitterns as an intelligent living force. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him but the deep cry of the bog-blitter, or bull-of-the-bog, a large species of bittern, and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass. Guy Mannering — Complete I could not close my eyes; but laid awake listening to the weka's shrill call, or the melancholy cry of the bitterns down in the swamp. Station Amusements in New Zealand Hark! how the frogs croaked and the bitterns boomed among the rushes. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch But at night it was different, for then the bull-frogs boomed incessantly, as did the bitterns, while great swamp owls and other night-flying birds uttered their weird cries. She and Allan But that is fields; soon the land-rail will be heard in the darkness, and the bitterns will call from the reeds. Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Do you hear that melancholy cry from the meadow there?" answered the shepherd, "that is the bittern; he was once a shepherd, and so was the hoopoe also,—I will tell you the story. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm The melancholy cry of a bittern, or the shrill wail of the weka, startled me from time to time, but there was no other sound to break the eternal silence. Station Amusements in New Zealand Flights of cockatoos, of parrots, of pigeons, and of bitterns, birds also whose notes had cheered us in the wilderness, all had taken the same high road to a better and more hospitable region. Expedition into Central Australia Since Christmas there is sent you of your own hawk's killing, eleven teals, two mallards, and eleven bitterns. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries We, too, were but dwellers on the shore, like the bittern of the morning; and our pursuit, the wrecks of snails and cockles. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers And to this day, though they have no flocks now to watch, the bittern cries, "Come, cows, come," and the hoopoe, "Up, up, up." Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Far off the cry of a bittern boomed across the flats. Mates at Billabong Pigeons congregated together; bitterns, cockatoos, and other birds; all collected round as preparatory to migrating. Expedition into Central Australia It may be only the booming of a bittern which we hear.' Swiss Family Robinson The water taken from these wells is nearly evaporated, after which NaCl crystallizes out, leaving a thick liquid—bittern, or mother liquor—which contains the salts of Br. An Introduction to Chemical Science The bittern pastured his flocks on rich green meadows where flowers grew in abundance, so his cows became wild and unmanageable. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Now and then a solitary bittern rose from the marsh, but, beyond a few water-rails, there were no other birds. Ismailia We no longer heard the discordant shriek of the parrots, or the hoarse croaking note of the bittern. Expedition into Central Australia Some people say that the bittern booms with his long bill partly thrust into the boggy ground, which increases the hollow muffled sound of its very peculiar cry.' Swiss Family Robinson We heard no gun save that of the bittern, which savored more of love than war. See America First When it was evening, and the shepherds wanted to drive their cows homewards, the bittern could not get his together again; they were too high- spirited, and ran away from him. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm The birds which are natural to the country are turkeys like ours, swans, geese of three sorts, ducks, teals, cranes, herons, bitterns, two sorts of partridges, four sorts of heath fowls, grouse or pheasants. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum Booming from the sedgy shallow. The Lady of the Lake Fox and woodchuck, hawk and snipe and bittern, when nearly seen, have no more root in the deep world than man, and are just such superficial tenants of the globe. Essays — Second Series This wild and dreary marsh, the haunt of the bittern and the plover, contrasted forcibly and disagreeably with the rich sylvan district he had just quitted. Windsor Castle Besides all our domestic animals and every kind of game, such strange delicacies as hedgehogs, bustards, porpoises, squirrels, bitterns and cranes lent variety to the feast. Sir Nigel She listened to the cooing of the doves, the booming of the bitterns in the reeds, and the drumming of the snipe high in air. Benita, an African romance Well, rest thee; for the bittern's cry Sings us the lake's wild lullaby.' The Lady of the Lake Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him, but the deep cry of the bog-blitter, or bull-of-the-bog, a large species of bittern; and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass. Guy Mannering It was not an oceanic fowl, but a species of bittern, with jet black and grizzly plumage, and diminutive wings in proportion to its bulk. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 "By our lady, he booms like a bittern." Sir Nigel He says that hawk and bittern were tried, and that their zeal broke down over an old brown owl, "which was indescribable." Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Somewhere far away a bittern cried, a hollow, melancholy sound like a cow shut up in a barn. The Witch and other stories He had a stuffed bittern in his study, and knew the names of quite a number of wild flowers, so his aunt had p. 48possibly some justification in describing him as a great naturalist. Reginald in Russia and other sketches It is in this way that small knots of trappers and hunters are distributed about the wilderness by the fur companies, and like cranes and bitterns, haunt its solitary streams. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains The bittern and the cormorant shall lodge Upon thine upper lintels, and their voice Sing in thy windows. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow As for Marat the People's-Friend, his voice is as that of the bullfrog, or bittern by the solitary pools; he, unseen of men, croaks harsh thunder, and that alone continually,—of indignation, suspicion, incurable sorrow. The French Revolution Once the swan and wild-fowl glided By those sedges, green and tall; Here the booming bitterns nested; Here we heard the curlews call. An Anthology of Australian Verse |
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