| 单词 | pewee |
| 例句 | We gave up the pewee and went back to the raft-making, talking very fast now, and laughing a lot. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “How would you know about a wood pewee in your business?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Stretched on the boughs, I listened to the wood pewees calling their haunting good nights until I fell sound asleep. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning before the wood pewees were up, I was smoking a mess of fish I had caught in the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They were paging through a binder of listings, checking off the day’s sightings, including the northern beardless tyrannulet and greater pewee. A Birding Adventure in Arizona’s ‘Sky Islands’ 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z “There’s your eastern wood pewee,” he says with excitement, steadying the laser on the tree trunk next to the sitting bird. Birders find an oasis awaits in Manhattan’s concrete jungle 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The impacted species include blackbirds, flycatchers, sparrows, swallows, warblers and the western wood pewee. Massive numbers of birds are dying in New Mexico and no one knows why 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The migrant wildlife is gone, the pewees, vireos and wood thrushes all far to the south by now. ‘It’s so still’: A winter solstice filled with peace at the National Arboretum 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Can you understand what must have been the attitude of these gold-braid pewees toward an old-fashioned apple pie couple from the tall timber? In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z A bobolink's bubbling carol is unthinkable in a jungle, and the strain of a wood pewee on a sunny hillside would be like an organ playing dance-music. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z The chickadee, whippoorwill, phoebe and pewee also tell you their names, but this bird announces himself by two names, so you need make no mistake. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The slightly larger size of the phœbe and pewee is not always apparent when they are seen perching on the trees. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z The woodland thrushes' flutes and bells have ceased to breathe and chime, only the wood pewee keeps his pensive song of other days, yet best befitting those of declining summer. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z On the other hand, while the wood pewee is one of the very plainest, there are few, if any, that excel her as an architect. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z A little pewee bird seen him an begin to fuss. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z Only the pewee and the red-eyed vireo, whom neither midday nor midsummer heat can silence, share the stage with him then. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Without hearing this call-note one might often mistake the bird for either the wood pewee or the phœbe, for all the three are similarly clothed and have many traits in common. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z The same is true of the pewees, the king-bird, and the sparrows, while the common bluebird, the oriole, and orchard starling afford examples the other way. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z He was delighted with the mill attached to the property, and with the pewees who built their nests near by. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z A crow fly over and hear de pewee, den fly down close an take a good look at mister hawk den he fly up and start callin' de other crows. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z They haunt apple orchards chiefly at nesting time, fortunately for the crop, and at no season secrete themselves in shady woods as pewees do. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z There were redbirds, too, and bluebirds and blackbirds—pewees, thrushes, vireos, kingfishers—all flocking in with the red and gold of the sunrise, making the dun meadows bright and melodious with their plumage and song. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z The common pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z From the professional ranks down to the pewee level in such contact sports as football and soccer, concussions are much on the minds of medical professionals, coaches, athletic administrators, parents and the athletes themselves. Parents, coaches on alert for head injuries 2010-09-21T17:18:00Z To my delight the wood pewee flew up in the tree, sat down on a horizontal crotch, and went through the motions of moulding. A-Birding on a Bronco Really he is no more melancholy than the plaintive pewee but, on the contrary, is so happy in his love that his devotion has passed into a proverb. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Here the leaves fell in the glory of the autumn, here other leaves burst forth in the miracle of spring, and here the pewee called in the summer. The Holy Earth The pewees began their pitiful cry of "Lost! lost!" a scarlet tanager sat like a sentinel on a dead branch and challenged them with a sharp single note. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. A wood warbler, on the contrary, always brings before me the rush and hurry of the world of people, and the wood pewee its under-current of eternal sadness. Upon The Tree-Tops The pewee did not altogether relish having us established under its vine and fig-tree. A-Birding on a Bronco While not so ready to be neighbourly as the phoebe, the pewee condescends to visit our orchards and shade trees. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The notes, to some ears, are Phoebe, phoebe, pewit, phoebe! to others, of somewhat duller sense of hearing, perhaps, Pewee, pewee, pewee! Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 The woodpeckers, the jays, the cuckoos, the pewees, the warblers, and other wood birds show only a low degree of variability in song, feeding, and nesting habits. Ways of Nature Into the mood induced by the melancholy pewee song breaks how completely and how happily the cheery optimism of the chickadee! Upon The Tree-Tops The vireos and pewees and gnats were still building, I reflected thankfully, though trembling for their future; and fortunately the hangbird had young. A-Birding on a Bronco I think the prize nest of the woods, if we except the nest of the hummingbird, is that of the wood pewee. Under the Maples And once I found a wood pewee in a somewhat similar mood. Birds in the Bush A pewee chorus is a droll and dismal affair. A Bird-Lover in the West I know both the kingbird and the wood pewee sing, not, to be sure, in a way to be compared to the thrushes, though far excelling the utterances of the warblers. Upon The Tree-Tops One of them got his spider's web from beside the pewee's nest, when the pewee was away. A-Birding on a Bronco The plaint of the wood pewee, pensive and like a human sigh, is far from pessimistic, although in a minor key. Under the Maples Many of them were entirely new and strange, although the familiar pewee was introduced among the rest. Birds in the Bush The wood-pewee, in dress and manners nearly resembling his Eastern brother, "The pewee of the loneliest woods, Sole singer in the solitudes," has a strange and decidedly original utterance. A Bird-Lover in the West Down upon him came one, sometimes two pewees. Little Brothers of the Air The flycatchers are well represented in the Park, there being no fewer than five species; the least flycatcher, wood pewee, phœbe, crested flycatcher, and kingbird. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year One day a family of wood pewees visited the dooryard of my tent. Our Bird Comrades Like the call of the wood pewee, the wren's radiates coolness and shadowy quiet. Edge of the Jungle If so much as a thrush, or a pewee, or a mild-mannered white throat, presumed to alight on the very remotest branch of that elm, it was brusquely driven away. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life This drama was enacted with clock-like regularity, neither party seeming to tire of its repetition, till the happy day when the pewee baby could fly, and appeared across the grove, near me. Little Brothers of the Air I have once or twice surprised young birds at their lessons, as for instance, a pewee family learning to hover over the daisies, a beautiful operation of their parents which I never tired of watching. In Nesting Time A multitude of gnats circling about in the air, seemed to be precisely to the taste of the pewee parents and their hungry bairns. Our Bird Comrades The only sounds he utters are an occasional clicking cherup, and now and then, with a plaintive cadence, he seems to speak the word pewee. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Poets of flowers, singers of nooks in Space, Petal-mongers, embroiderers of words In the music-haunted houses of the birds, Singers with the thrushes and pewees In the glimmer-lighted roofs Of the trees— Unhand my soul! The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century The young thrasher and the robin chirped in the grove; sweet bluebird and pewee baby cries came from the shrubbery; the golden-wing leaned far out of his oaken walls, and called from morning to night. Little Brothers of the Air The songs told of purling streams, hedgerows, bathers lolling on the river-bank, nodding wild flowers, chirping pewees, and other such poetic properties, which the singer conjured forth from boyhood's days, long since gone by. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians As lavish a minstrel as the pewee pater familias is under most circumstances, that morning he was too busy to tune his wind harp. Our Bird Comrades Now and again, as they rustled some low tree, a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startled chirp. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories But, gentlemen and ladies, in my opinion, the near-sighted was about as much to blame for what happened, as a pewee is for being swallered by a black snake. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett The pewee, for all his tender and melancholy utterances, has a fiery spirit. Little Brothers of the Air The wood pewee builds a neat, compact socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Speaking of the voracious appetites of birds, as exhibited by the young pewees, which never seemed to get enough, I am reminded of something I witnessed one day in a deep, wooded hollow. Our Bird Comrades Dreamily sitting on a bare twig, the wood pewee is content. Some Summer Days in Iowa In the pauses of the thrush sounded the cheery whistle of the redbird, the crying of the catbird, the liquid tones of the song sparrow, and the giddy exclamations of the pewee. The Voice of the People There may have been more, although I saw but one and heard but one baby cry, a prolonged but very low sound of pewee quality. Little Brothers of the Air For so I found my forest-bird,— The pewee of the loneliest woods, Sole singer in these solitudes, Which never robin's whistle stirred, Where never bluebird's plume intrudes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 The wood pewee and the kingbird succeed, I think, in driving him away; but the vireos and warblers, being so much smaller, suffer greatly from his depredations. Our Bird Comrades A blue-jay is just approaching the wood pewee's nest in the burr oak, but the doughty husband does battle with the fierceness of a kingbird and chases him away. Some Summer Days in Iowa On the morning of her disappearance, Betsey rose even before the pewee and the English sparrow, and dressed herself quietly, though with trembling hands, and stole out of the kitchen door like a plunderless thief. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches While their charge lingered so near me, I was treated to another sensation by one of the pair,—a pewee song. Little Brothers of the Air The same is true of the pewees, the kingbird, and the sparrows, while the common bluebird, the oriole, and orchard starling afford examples the other way. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs Calling over and over their peculiar note, the pewees, flycatchers, and king-birds, fly through the forests. Stories of California Latest among the singers are the chewinks, the wood pewees, the field sparrows, and, of course, the goldfinches and the cuckoos. Some Summer Days in Iowa The eaves were daubed with mud carried by the pewees in the building of their yearly nests. The Deacon of Dobbinsville A Story Based on Actual Happenings The father had evidently shaken off the trammels of domestic life, and "gone for his holiday" into the grove, where his encounters with the pewees kept up a little excitement for him. Little Brothers of the Air Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic note of the wood pewee. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs Once, the children of a man employed about the place oölogized the nest, and the pewees left us for a year or two. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Once the children of a man employed about the place oologized the nest, and the pewees left us for a year or two. My Garden Acquaintance If Mag had the sense of a pewee, she'd told me long ago. A Girl of the Limberlost We skate near to where the blackbird, the pewee, and the kingbird hung their nests over the water, and the hornets builded from the maple in the swamp. Excursions You will find in his poems the wood pewee, the bluebird, the oriole, the robin, the grouse, the kingfisher, the chipmunk, the mink, the bobolink, the wood thrush, all in their proper places. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton He saddens with the season, and, as summer declines, he changes his note to eheu, pewee! Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers He saddens with the season, and, as summer declines, he changes his note to cheu, pewee! as if in lamentation. My Garden Acquaintance In a pine wood near by, a wood pewee, a pine warbler, a yellow-throated warbler, and a pine-wood sparrow were singing—a most peculiarly select and modest chorus. A Florida Sketch-Book There are the robins, sparrows, pewees, wrens, swallows, and martins. Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) The note of the wood pewee is a human sigh; the chickadee has a call full of unspeakable tenderness and fidelity. Locusts and Wild Honey A pair of pewees have built immemorially on a jutting brick in the arched entrance to the ice-house. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers The pewee belongs to quite a large family of birds, all of whom have strong family traits, and who are not the most peaceable and harmonious of the sylvan folk. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers Presently he had the little girl listen to a pewee twittering in a thorn-bush and the lusty call of a robin from an apple-tree. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine The common or wood pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest. Wake-Robin I noted but one nest of the wood pewee, and that, too, like so many other nests, failed of issue. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers The pewee calls his little mate, Sweet Phoebe, gone astray, The warbler sings, "What fun, what fun, To tilt upon the spray!" The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 The wood pewee is the sweetest voiced, and, notwithstanding the ungracious things I have said of it and of its relations, merits to the full all Trowbridge's pleasant fancies. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers Without hearing this call-note one might often mistake the bird for either the wood pewee or the phoebe, for all the three are similarly clothed and have many traits in common. Bird Neighbors Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic not of the wood pewee. Wake-Robin The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers Thus, I have seen the pewee, the cuckoo, the robin, and the wood-thrush pursuing it with angry voice and gestures. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers The slightly large size of the phoebe and pewee is not always apparent when they are seen perching on the trees. Bird Neighbors The same is true of the pewees, the kingbird, and the sparrows, while the common bluebird, the oriole, and the orchard starling afford examples the other way. Wake-Robin |
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