单词 | chough |
例句 | “An Alpine chough...How can you see him?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She found it easier this time, and there was the chough, with her in her own world, perching on a branch that hung low over the pavement. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Below me is a lush flower-filled valley, and above me are swirls of choughs. A wander near Ronda: Spain’s empty quarter 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He is "particularly fond" of choughs "though they are diminishing". A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley 2011-03-20T00:02:02Z I’ve seen pilot whales, dolphins, seals, barn owls, kestrels, peregrines and choughs, met old Cornish fishermen and made new local friends. My year of roaming free in Cornwall – a photo essay 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z They keep the vegetation low in the winter when the sheep are brought down to lower levels, and they provide food for birds like choughs. Weather kills Welsh wild ponies 2013-04-18T20:00:47Z Wynifred could not be made to talk on any subject except the sun, the flowers, the chough, the villagers, or some such indifferent theme. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The alpine chough is somewhat smaller than its congener, and is easily distinguished by its shorter and bright yellow bill. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Ravens and choughs tenanted the crags, and the red-legs were met with very high up. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The chough, which, in addition to plumage dark and glossy like that of the jackdaw, displays a beak and legs of bright scarlet. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z This may be seen in daws, choughs, pipits, and many other species. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z In the silence the call of the chough on the terrace could be distinctly heard right across the combe. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast ones eyes so low, The crows and choughs, that wing the mid-way air, Shew scarce as gross as beetles. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z The only birds seen in the high sierra were choughs and ravens: ring-ouzels a little lower down. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z An old Cornish tradition declares that Arthur's mighty spirit passed into a Cornish chough, and in the guise of that beautiful crow with the scarlet beak, still haunts the ruins of his birthplace. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z These in their turn will be followed by the chough, hobby, great black-backed gull, furze wren, crested tit, and others. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z He pointed out two distant black specks, that to the girls might have been anything, but which he assured them represented a pair of choughs that built every year on the cliffs. A Fortunate Term 2011-05-12T02:00:10.623Z The ascent at first lay through hanging forests, broken here and there by grey crags, the home of the chough and the eagle-owl. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The Cornish chough among birds, and among plants the Cornish heath, are, as the names show, indigenous here. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z It is not to be doubted that the daw was once a builder in trees, like all his relations, with the exception of the cliff-breeding chough. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Of the Arthurian folk-legend at Tintagel he said:—‘The spirit of King Arthur is supposed to be in the Cornish chough—a beautiful black bird with red legs and red beak.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The mountains were strangely silent, and the only sound of wild life was the whistling of the red-billed choughs, the commonest of the Corvid� at these heights. The Unveiling of Lhasa Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have, By magot-pies and choughs and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood. Hand and Ring The crows and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce as gross as beetles. The Tatler, Volume 3 The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire,—dreadful trade! English: Composition and Literature Ralph did not answer, too deep in his anger with the old woman who had left that 'fat chough' a hundred pounds to provide him—Ralph—with forty-three. Tatterdemalion Often he would lie upon the grass in the sunlight and watch the rooks and choughs circle about their battlements and spires. George Borrow in East Anglia Crows and choughs flew screaming over the old trees, and there were crowds of birds; they did not seem to get fewer when any one shot among them, but seemed rather to increase. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Doctor Workman saw a pair of choughs at twenty-one thousand feet, on Nun Kun in the Himalayas. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America I experimented on a Cornish chough — an old specimen, infested with maggots or larvae of the "clothes" moth. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. For Mag pie we find also various diminutives— "Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood." The Romance of Words (4th ed.) There be that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate 255 As amply and unnecessarily As this Gonzalo; I myself could make A chough of as deep chat. The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Milton Once knowing that, thoroughly, we can further learn from the swallow what a wing is; from the chough what a beak is; and from the falcon what a claw is. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds Cornish choughs abound, and breed on Beachy Head, and on all the cliffs of the Sussex coast. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire—dreadful trade! Highways and Byways in Sussex The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles! The Two Admirals The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles; half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Tales from Many Sources Vol. V The principal species are ... puffins, gulls, cormorants, Cornish choughs, the eider duck, auks, divers, guillemots, razor-bills, widgeons, willocks, daws, starlings, and pigeons. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. I see no place here for a hermitage, Joseph said, only roosts for choughs and crows. The Brook Kerith A Syrian story You never meet those crows with yellow beaks, called Cornish choughs in English, pyrrocorax in Latin, who, in their mischief, would drop burning twigs on thatched roofs. The Man Who Laughs The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Composition-Rhetoric A little after, though I know not how, I thought I was transformed into a tabor, and she into a chough. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 In calling the choughs "russet-pated" he makes the bill tinge the whole head, or perhaps gives the effect of the birds' markings when seen at a distance; the bill is red, the head is black. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton According to them he alone is responsible for the disappearance of his distinguished relation, the chough. Birds in Town and Village But for that dead rascal at our feet I could beyond a doubt have plucked him like a chough, and here I was, still penniless. The Yeoman Adventurer The choughs are persistent followers of a Ski-ing party, flying over one's head and chirruping for lunch. Ski-running Nor yet will she be changed into a chough, but will steal from you, chiefly in the night, as is the nature of that thievish bird. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Drury revives! her rounded pate Is blue, is heavenly blue with slate; She "wings the midway air," elate, As magpie, crow, or chough; White paint her modish visage smears, Yellow and pointed are her ears. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe But of the chough in captivity or as a domesticated bird we know little now, as no records have been preserved. Birds in Town and Village Think you that I cannot pluck yon chough without being pinched? The Yeoman Adventurer These "packed lunches" are usually so plentiful that the choughs and the ravens get a goodly feed. Ski-running And my wife will be jocund, feat, compt, neat, quaint, dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, even as a pretty little Cornish chough. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 He knew that "a lapwing runs close by the ground," that choughs are "russet-pated." English Literature for Boys and Girls Looking down the drop of five or six hundred feet, the height is so great that the gannets flying close over the sea look like white butterflies, and the choughs like flies fluttering behind them. In Wicklow and West Kerry The second is like the foolish chough, which loves to steal money only to hide it. Cowley's Essays I did want to know, and I found out that they were Alpine choughs and I still want to know when I see the inhabitants of the mountains or their tracks. Ski-running They came like a flight of birds of evil omen, ravens, choughs, and owls, the embodiments of wicked thoughts. The Golden Dog There be that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate As amply and unnecessarily As this Gonzalo: I myself could make A chough of as deep chat. The Tempest The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire—dreadful trade! King Lear He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the king's mess; 'tis a chough; but, as I say, spacious in the possession of dirt. Hamlet Cornish choughs abound, and breed on Beachy-head and on all the cliffs of the Sussex coast. The Natural History of Selborne When berries were red on her ash, The blackbird would rifle them rough, Till the ground underneath looked a gash, And her rogue grew the round of a chough. Poems — Volume 2 The Outlaw's Song THE chough and crow to roost are gone, The owl sits on the tree, The hush'd wind wails with feeble moan, Like infant charity. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse The crow, the slanderous cuckoo, nor The boding raven, nor chough hoar, Nor chattering pye, May on our bride-house perch or sing, Or with them any discord bring, But from it fly! 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