单词 | churr |
例句 | This was followed by a soft churring as though someone were talking to himself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The churring of gray squirrels in the bright morning sun told me it was daylight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The old-fashioned clock by the elevator churred as its gears began to turn. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He lay there churring with terror, his eyes wide open and unfocused. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They churred excitedly when someone discovered a large scorpion—and muttered with disappointment as the lucky finder nipped off the stinger and ate the rest of the creature! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t really trust it. I remember walking into a received pronunciation class and they were all going ‘How Now Brown Cow’ and I said ‘Do you huv a spur churr?’ Richard Dormer: 'Let’s face it, I have the coolest weapon in Game of Thrones' 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The birds are well-camouflaged and prefer low heathland habitat - and males are known for their "mechanical churring" call that rises and falls as the bird turns its head. Elusive nightjar back at RSPB reserve 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Conservationists hope the sound of storm petrels' "churring" is an indication that an effort to eradicate rats on the Shiant Islands is working. 'Churring' sign of wreck rats dying out 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z "Chip—churr" calls the gorgeous father from the tree top, and a reassuring reply that all is well with the nest floats up to him from his mate. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The churring is nearly monotonous but not quite so, as it occasionally rises or falls about a quarter of a note, and appears to increase and diminish in loudness. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Once, the faint churr of a distant fern-owl sent a vibrant dissonance, that was yet strangely soothing, through the darkness and the silence. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z They were spotted by a birdwatcher on 3 June after he heard the nightjar's distinctive "churring" call. Elusive nightjar back at RSPB reserve 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z This summer, real storm petrels' churring was heard and the birds seen at a burrow by conservationists using night vision equipment. 'Churring' sign of wreck rats dying out 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As I write this chapter, a letter from an old friend says that he well remembers the number of night-jars p. 46which were to be heard “churring” about Woodhall on a summer’s evening. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter They darted at Warruk, flitted back and forth, hopped nimbly along the branches and raised their voices in low churrs or louder agonized wails. The Black Phantom Night-hawks churred as they beat on noiseless wings above the beds of bramble and bracken. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance No roaring fires and puffing bellows; no clink of hammer or anvil, and no churr and screech of steel being held against the revolving stones. Patience Wins War in the Works The only sound at all—and that was fitful—came from a fern-owl which, from a thorn-bush above me, churred softly and at intervals his content with the night. Lore of Proserpine The Dragon was yet a long way off; though indeed it must be allowed that flight, when Chwangtse wrote and Ch'u Yuan sung, was surprised with the far churr of startling wings under the stars. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In the grass crickets, locusts and grasshoppers kept up their churring, monotonous music. The Bishop and Other Stories The churring of the night-jars, the occasional bark of the fox in the Warren, the song of the answering nightingales, wandered in at the open casements. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Just then the churring and screeching of the grinding steel burst out louder than ever, and I determined to go away and treat all I had heard with silent contempt. Patience Wins War in the Works The air is still; there is no sound but the churring of a grasshopper on the river bank, and somewhere the timid cooing of a turtle-dove. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories I saw his mouth open and shut, he hollowed his hands round it, but the churr of the motor and the bees drowned his words. A Diversity of Creatures With a flash of the pink lining of his wings, he flew down into the grass and at once began his churring notes again. The Bishop and Other Stories A dor is a beetle so called from its making a dorring noise, and the name, like churr and burr, is better with its double R and trill. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Even the grasshoppers ceased their churr in the trees—only a window rattled somewhere. The Torrents of Spring The cricket churrs in the stove; the green patch on the ceiling and the shadows from the trousers and the baby-clothes force themselves on Varka's half-opened eyes again, wink at her and cloud her mind. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories Only a cricket from time to time gave a cautious churr, and a mouse was scratching somewhere; he could hear his own breathing. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories The air was full of the churring music of the steppes, as it had been the day before. The Bishop and Other Stories If churn is anywhere dialectal for churr, it must have come from the common mistake of substituting a familiar for an unknown word: and this is the worst way of making homophones. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Gathering courage, he ventures down the trunk again, churring and chirping, and jerking nervously up and down in curious loops, eyeing you all the time, as if snowing off and demanding your admiration. The Mountains of California There was no moon, no stars, no wind; the cattle were noiseless under the trees; there were no owls calling, no night-jars churring, the fly-by-night chafers were not abroad. The Patrician They were cutting the grass on the tennis court below; he heard the soft churr of the mower. The Garden Party and Other Stories |
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