| 单词 | peewit |
| 例句 | At the sudden cry of a peewit on the down, one or two bolted and had to be brought back by their officers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The spirit of the lifeless infant remains with her "like a lone peewit, always landing close by when there's bad weather on the way". First novels: Catherine Taylor's choice – reviews 2012-08-24T21:55:02Z There were 27 spring heads established on the estate and the first 10 were given the names of animals, including the hare, the peewit, the fox and the swan. The houses hiding a city's water secrets 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The carrier whistled to his horse, the cry of a peewit came shrilling across the moor, one wheel of the cart squeaked loudly for grease. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z A peewit screamed and wheeled above his head. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z "I suppose you are comparing me to a peewit now?" Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z There was nothing in this grey, lonely world but the peewits swinging and crying, and George swinging silently at his work. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Lapwing, lap′wing, n. the name of a bird of the plover family, also called peewit, from its peculiar cry. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The peewits and curlews had gone to rest. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Again the woods rang with a fairly good imitation of the peewit’s—or European lapwing’s—whistling note. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z The swallows flew southwards, but the peewits remained in droves, and the starlings took up their abode with the sheep. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z "That's a private trough," exclaimed a thin voice, high like a peewit's cry. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z A marsh-harrier, oologically inclined, was being bullied and chased by a score of peewits: and now and then a little string of ducks high overhead would still remind one of winter. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Again the thunder roars, my life is shaken as I listen, My heart is pounding: The cruel peewit, calling 'Piu, piu,' Reminds me of his lap. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z We use the peewit’s whistle for signaling to each other: Tewitt! A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z This curious reason was explained when it turned out that the farmer meant "peewits." Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How 2011-09-09T02:01:03.123Z I watched him through the wheeling peewits, as the low clouds went stealthily overhead. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z When the peewit alights he runs along a few yards rapidly, as if carried by the impetus. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The eggs of the peewit, or lapwing, as the bird is variously called, are sought for with great perseverance, and accounted delicacies. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Now the tips of the chestnut twigs might bulge and bud, but spring was not spring until the plover paraded his new black breast, or a peewit rose screaming at the midnight intruder. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z "A good work! an industrious good work!--well, the peewit is also an important personage amongst the feathered tribe, but the nightingale does not heed its singing." Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Rising and falling and circling round and round, the slow-waving peewits cry and complain, and lift their broad wings in sorrow. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The peewits had nests year after year in this place, and even when the nesting time was over a few might often be seen. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z A quarter of an hour later, a weird cry, something like that of a curlew or peewit, but not exactly either, came to our ears from the north-west near the river. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z Nearer home a peewit called, and Robert Carlton caught himself wondering whether there would be rain before morning. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The common snipe, some kinds of peewits, the spoonbill, and the flamingo, sometimes extend their migrations as far as Shoa. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z There is a cry in answer to the peewits, echoing louder and stronger the lamentation of the lapwings, a wail which hushes the birds. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Upon the Downs there is a place haunted by some few peewits. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z From the marshy ground rose the cries of curlews and peewits,—the drumming of snipe and the hoarse croakings of many frogs making an unearthly tout ensemble. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z Then, as now, the links were a sandy waste, a wilderness of whin, sand, and bent, the home of countless scuttling rabbits and plaintive peewits. "Pip" A Romance of Youth A whole flight of lapwings rose, screaming "peewit", from a field where they were feeding in company with a flock of seagulls, following the plough that a labourer was driving through the rich red earth. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story He gazed about him in all directions: nothing was stirring but the peewits. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies Solitary peewits will do the same thing; you would imagine they were going off at a great pace, instead of which back they come in a minute or two. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The gulls and petrels form another association—the order Gaviæ; while the plovers, snipes, curlews, peewits, turnstones, &c., constitute the order Limicolæ. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 There is also a species of peewit who utters a rather pretty call, which might be supposed to be the Marathi version of what the English peewit says. India and the Indians I have seen peewits or green plovers in the same field, which is now about to be built on. The Toilers of the Field The peewit flew up as she stumbled over the mound of earth where it had built its nest. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Other birds fly for a purpose: the peewit seems to find enjoyment beating to and fro in the air. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z When they saw this, the peewits held a council on the hill, and they sent a messenger to Kapchack with the news. Wood Magic A Fable As soon as he is perceived, however, the peewits all combine in chasing him away. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children You tell me the lambs have come, they lie like daisies white in the grass Of the dark-green hills; new calves in shed; peewits turn after the plough— It is well for you. New Poems So the two young people travelled in a great loneliness of plovers and curlews and peewits, all singing and calling and whistling their hardest. Patsy Flocks of peewits, starlings, and red-wings collected on the uplands, and an occasional heron might be seen flitting majestically across the storm-flecked sky. The Princess of the School So saying he flew up, and all the peewits followed him in the expectation of an easy conquest. Wood Magic A Fable You know how cunning the peewit is in trying to lead people away from its nest or young ones. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children They had been waiting a couple of hours, and the peewit’s cry had been uttered from time to time, but only a straggler or two had landed upon the strip of land. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp It was Ram, and he was playing peewit. Cutlass and Cudgel A peewit circles above them in the air, listening, then alights beside their bonfire, chirps, and addresses them in human speech. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections The monotonous and yet pleasing cry of the peewits, the sweet titlark singing overhead, and the cuckoos flying round, filled the place with the magic charm of spring. Round About a Great Estate The peewit, as you saw, makes scarcely any nest, merely a hollow in the ground, with, perhaps, a few dried grasses. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children This being produced from the punt and opened was found to contain about a dozen stuffed peewits, which, though rough in their feathers, were very fair imitations of the real things. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp He could imagine it uttering the vibrant, plaintive cry of a peewit. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Summer days between Slieve Echtge and the western sea are, however, bringing the plovers and curlews and peewits back to his poetry. Irish Plays and Playwrights The meadow might have been called a plovery—as we say rookery and heronry—for the green plovers or peewits always had several nests in it. Round About a Great Estate The peculiar instinct of the peewit in misleading people as to the whereabouts of its eggs, or young ones, is very curious. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children Redwings, wheatears, peewits, and airy kestrels are the people of their skies. Lore of Proserpine Upon approaching the rising ground at Ewell green plovers or peewits become plentiful in the cornfields. Nature Near London Lord Wrotham's laugh resembled that laugh peculiar to "society" folk,—the laugh civil-sniggering, which is just a tone between the sheep's bleat and the peewit's cry. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Then he bit, and a second buff-and-black-mottled soft body stretched slowly out into the open as death took it—a second baby peewit. The Way of the Wild The food of the peewits consists of insects, worms, snails, slugs, the larvæ of various insects; I am certain they do much good to the farmer by destroying numerous insect-pests. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children Ravens, curlews, peewits, a lagging fox or limping hare; such, with the unsensed Spirits of the Earth, will be your company. Lore of Proserpine Green plovers, or peewits, come in small flocks to the fields recently ploughed; sometimes scarcely a gunshot from the walls of the villas. Nature Near London The letter a, the eagle, circles overhead; the sign ur, the wagtail, flits at the roadside, chirping at the sign rekh, the peewit. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology She had made a slight mistake in her calculations, that peewit, a matter of perhaps a quarter of a second, but enough. The Way of the Wild "Well, papa," said Jack, "I am tired of sitting here, let us now go and hunt for peewit's eggs." Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children It was a haunt of the cuckoo and peewit, the bunting and carrion crow. The Spinners Of birds the black and white peewit is not uncommon;—cormorants, etc. also occur. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Lights glint fitfully, a human voice imitates the plaintive cry of the peewit, cautious whistling follows, comes next the clash of arms, and the scream of one in the death-throes, and again silence falls. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood Yet that peewit found time in that fraction of a second to rise, open her wings, and get two feet into the air. The Way of the Wild I will back the peewit against the boy. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children No; it was flying after a peewit, and the dog caught it. The Pilots of Pomona The sound came from innumerable peewits, that fled and circled above the slopes of the darkening meadows below. At a Winter's Fire Clouds of gnats hung over the ground and in the waste places the peewits called plaintively. The Duel and Other Stories He snapped at it, and it fell upon the grass, stretching out slowly in death—a baby peewit. The Way of the Wild I have often heard peewits uttering their peculiar noise," said Willy, "quite late at night. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children By a little path that ran along the steep bank, between the bare roots, he went down to the water, disturbed the peewits there and frightened two ducks. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories From the natural history point of view he was perfectly correct, as peewits generally frequent wild and uncultivated places where the ploughman and the labourer are rarely seen. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor When you hear me cry as the peewit cries, run as quickly as may be towards the boat. The Thirsty Sword He snapped again, held it, dropped it, and another downy, soft, warm chick thing straightened, horribly and pathetically, in the unpitying sun, and was still—a third baby peewit. The Way of the Wild O that I were Where breaks the pure cold light On English hills, And peewits rising cry, And gray is all the sky. Poems New and Old The peewit chirped, "He that hath no mercy for others, shall find none for himself." Figures of Earth There hawks hovered, circling hour by hour, and the flicker of the peewit's flight with its melancholy, petulant cry, deepened the sense of stillness. The Man Whom the Trees Loved During the breeding season, they attempt, like our peewits, by feigning to be wounded, to draw away from their nests dogs and other enemies. The Voyage of the Beagle They did not often reach again the height of that once when the peewits had called. Sons and Lovers And, meanwhile, the peewit, The poor little fledgeling, With short hops and flights Had come fluttering towards them. Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? She lay so still that the peewits had stopped their cry. Mary Olivier: a Life No, but when my master was turned into a peewit, he begged me to become a bird too, to follow and to serve him. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 As our peewit takes its name from the sound of its voice, so does the teru-tero. The Voyage of the Beagle Then he realised it was the grass, and the peewit was calling. Sons and Lovers It is the turn of the peewits to look out. A Boy's Ride Silver-crested peewits circled and cried with their melancholy cadences, and a tawny pheasant led out her young. Gone to Earth The next was the Turn in a bogland of rushes; There the springs of still water were trampled to slushes; The peewits lamented, flapping down, flagging far, The riders dared deathwards each trusting his star. Right Royal A few hollow oaks on whose boughs the cuckoos stayed to call, two or three peewits coursing up and down, larks singing, and for all else silence. The Life of the Fields All the while the peewits were screaming in the field. Sons and Lovers "The peewit is the size of a pigeon." A Boy's Ride So now, as he thought of Hazel's lissom waist, her large eyes, rather scared, her slender wrists he cursed until the peewits arose mewing all about him. Gone to Earth Close by a ploughed field of about forty acres was the camping-ground of an army of peewits; they were travellers from the north perhaps, and were quietly resting, sprinkled over the whole area. Afoot in England We have no water-hens there—nothing but peewits, larks, and occasional grouse—but the air and water are of the best, and the hills quite high enough to bring one's muscles into play. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 They had met, and included in their meeting the thrust of the manifold grass stems, the cry of the peewit, the wheel of the stars. Sons and Lovers But when he standeth on his somewhat long legs, and thou seest that his under parts be white, why, even a Frenchman would know he was no pigeon, but must be the peewit or lapwing. A Boy's Ride Above our heads, peewits were wheeling and crying, and lizards swarmed on the hard, cracked ground. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy Thus all one day he was in frightful agony with the toothache, but nobody knew anything about it until next morning when his cheek was swollen to the size of a peewit's egg. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wilson's warblers, pine creepers, black-throats, myrtle and magnolia warblers, oven birds, peewits, blue jays, purple finches, passed silently or noisily, each according to his kind. The Blazed Trail As he brushed his hair in front of the window, Desmond saw the peewits running about in the sunshine on the fields by the road. Okewood of the Secret Service Once more Hugo's waking eyes beheld two peewits spitted over the coals and a meal cake baking in the embers. A Boy's Ride Except little birds and peewits, of which Vassenka killed one, there was nothing in the marsh. Anna Karenina Overhead an anxious peewit circled against the blue, and every now and then emitted its feeble cry. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll |
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