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单词 nightbird
例句 nightbird
The epitome of that sensation was an eloquent, tender version of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon," with echoes of crickets and nightbirds and Wilson's sultry voice evoking romance on a warm summer night. Review: Cassandra Wilson works magic at Jazz Alley 2010-06-04T20:11:00Z
I am a nightbird whose natural biorhythm had to be sublimated for my entire adult working life. Binge Eating at Night? Your Hormones May Be to Blame 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z
She started in affright at the long, eerie cry of a nightbird; the deepening shadows were filled with fearful, unnamable terrors. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House 2012-02-27T03:00:12.427Z
My foot has carried me as a fugitive about the world all the days of my life, and my eyes shun the light like a nightbird's, for the sun has rarely shone on me. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z
But nothing but the echoes, and the startled nightbirds, replied. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z
A great nightbird floated out of the wood and swept low across the field with a “swish, swish, swish” of powerful wings. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z
From the fog behind them came the hoot of a nightbird. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z
The monotonous chirrup of the tree-frog, the shrill baying of a pair of hunting jackals, the occasional cry of a nightbird mournfully echoing from the mountain side, floated to the watcher’s ear. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt
Monsieur Sariette always went straight home, much to the regret of the painter, who was a gossip and a nightbird. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels
Save for a belated roysterer singing on his way homeward, and one or two nightbirds on the street below whose footfalls sounded fitfully, no whisper broke on the eerie night. Border Ghost Stories
Others delight in tales told by the embers Of the home hearth or listen to the songs Of the nightbirds with rapture; others, slaves Of a great pain, burn incense to the stars Of beauty. Life Immovable First Part
Except the usual cry of the nightbirds and the quacking of frogs, which issued from the forest, no sound broke the silence which brooded over the water. The Three Lieutenants
The nightbirds of London were on their rambles looking out for prey; the bridge was thronged. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
The old women living like nightbirds in the garret, would drop in frequently, and almost invariably with some tale of woe that sooner or later drew from the mother relief in one form or another. The Soul of a Child
As the still ocean paths before the shark in starred and glittering waterways, beauty-high, the moon-swathed trees divided, pair on pair, while flapping nightbirds cried across the air.... This Side of Paradise
He heard sounds, but only such as are usually to be heard in the woods at night–the chirping of crickets, the buzzing of the wings of insects, and the call of nightbirds. The Dare Boys of 1776
A nightbird shrieked weirdly close to the house and a sudden gust of wind moaned through the pine trees. The Shadow of the East
"I am indeed a nightbird," answered Mark, who looked anxious. The Precipice
"Which by mid-night," she said quickly, "the nightbirds will have, by the flutter of their wings, blown into the right current, and from poor Lionel." A Heart-Song of To-day
The middle of the house is a sort of chorus-girl belt, while in the upper rooms there are reporters and other nightbirds. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
The nightbird leaves his solitary retreat, the hollow of an ancient trunk, and disturbs the sad loneliness of the open places—” “No, don’t sing!” she exclaimed in perfect Tagalog, as she rose with agitation. The Social Cancer
"Instead of an ogre attended by owls and nightbirds and the devil knows what,—for I don't." Green Fancy
Indeed, even if it had been lighter, I do not think that it would have been safe among these Amahagger nightbirds whom I did not trust. She and Allan
Darkness hid the wilderness, out on the face of the lake a fish leaped with a slap, and a nightbird called shrilly off to the south. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
Each found himself wondering why the leaves did not stir in the trees, why there were no nightbirds, no crickets, no croaking frogs, no sign of life save that steady, clocklike tread inside the wall. Graustark
From the balcony one could see the nightbirds fly. Now It Can Be Told
The Versailles Ball and lemonade is done; the Orangery is silent except for nightbirds. The French Revolution
A sheep-bell on the moor made a noise like a nightbird. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger
Over the dark forest the stars came out on a velvet sky, and a little wind came out of the south, nightbirds called from the depths, and peace spread over the Northland like a blanket. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
Then darkness shall divide us like a wall,  And uncouth evil nightbirds flap their wings;  The solitude of all created things Will creep upon us shuddering like a pall. The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets
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