| 单词 | rookery |
| 例句 | From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes the maester's ravens joined the feast as well, flapping down from the rookery on wide black wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Another field crossed—a lane threaded—and there were the courtyard walls—the back offices: the house itself, the rookery still hid. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The bridge between the Bell Tower and the rookery had collapsed into the yard below, and Maester Luwin's turret was gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was another narrow spit of land, with a penguin rookery and a glacier nosing down the mountainside nearby. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The fool turned his patched and piebald head to watch Pylos climb the steep iron steps to the rookery. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I guess this is what you call the rookery,” said Mr. Popper. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing broke the morning stillness. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Above them, a raven cawed loudly in the rookery. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The cats keep the rats down, I know, but that one ... he’s been known to attack ravens in the rookery.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rookery had scarcely been moved to the basement when Greta laid the first egg. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z In them are eight blue heron nests—a rookery. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The white raven screamed and went flapping away to perch on the iron railing of the rookery stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Popper had removed all the stranger objects, leaving only the marbles and checkers, so that Captain Cook now had a nice, orderly little rookery. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z "Pylos will counsel me henceforth. Already he works with the ravens, since you can no longer climb to the rookery. I will not have you kill yourself in my service." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pycelle’s chambers were beneath the rookery, a spacious suite of rooms cluttered with racks of herbs and salves and potions and shelves jammed full of books and scrolls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When the weather permitted, the crew kept busy catching penguins, which were numerous and noisy in the nearby rookery. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As Arya crossed the yard to the bathhouse, she spied a raven circling down toward the rookery, and wondered where it had come from and what message it carried. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I know the way to the rookery well enough.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The maester's turret below the rookery was one of Bran's favorite places. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z With fumbling hands, the old man lit a candle and carried it to the workroom beneath the rookery stair, where his ointments, potions, and medicines stood neatly on their shelves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On our way to see the flamingo’s primary rookery, we pass a fat, barren expanse of dried mud, weathered limestone rock and an occasional scraggly bush. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent We come to the end of the road, as close as most tourists can get to the rookery on Flamingo Key during the breeding season. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent It is all such fun and so richly detailed that one is drawn down London’s crooked lanes and rookeries without a backwards glance. ‘The Infidel Stain’ evokes a chilling time in Victorian England 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Booms were put up around barrier islands that serve as pelican rookeries. The Gulf Coast may never recover 2013-04-23T20:02:00Z This Sunday’s destination: the Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, filled with egret and cormorant rookeries. Spare Times for Children for June 14-20 2013-06-13T22:44:20Z “They can wipe out a rookery in a single night,” Nixon says. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent So I was surprised at how incredibly moved I was by the penguin rookery. A father-daughter adventure in Argentina and Chile 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Their destination is an emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, more than 100km away. The worst egg hunt in the world 2013-07-16T13:12:00Z Dozens of state parks and recreation areas line the coast, featuring tide pools, seal rookeries, sea stacks and lighthouses. Top 10 national and state parks in Oregon 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z SAT One-mile walk to see and learn about one of the largest rookeries in the Seattle area, for ages 8 and older, all children must be accompanied by adult, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-19T16:30:03Z Members of Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition reached the magnetic South Pole, while members of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition did breakthrough research on emperor penguins, retrieving three eggs during a harrowing winter trip to a remote rookery. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z Forget the profiteroles and acute accents; we were landing on a rookery. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He notes such features as rookeries, celandine banks, clumps of elms and gorse patches, and each chiffchaff heard. Our pursuit of spring continues, 100 years after Edward Thomas's 2013-03-28T13:57:39Z Then our boat glided into a rookery with hundreds of herons and storks, each one as big as a 2-year-old child, perched, preening or at times filling the sky overhead. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The best way to experience the rookery is to buy Gatorland’s Early Access pass, which provides entry at 7:30 a.m., Birds are the other stars of Orlando’s Gatorland 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Point La Jolla, known as one of California’s prime sea lion rookeries, will no longer be accessible to the public after a unanimous vote by the San Diego City Council. San Diego closes off a sea lion hot spot where selfie-taking humans are just too much 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The declining water level uncovered a land bridge connecting an island rookery to the shore. Los Angeles DWP battles to keep spigot open at Mono Lake 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Owner and director of the Anglesey Sea Zoo Frankie Hobro has seen first-hand the impact water scooters have on wildlife, including sea bird colonies, seal rookeries and pods of dolphins and porpoises. Jet Skis: New rules crack down on reckless water scooter use 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z The expedition was the first to sight an Emperor Penguin rookery and obtain an egg of the species. Discovery: The ship that put Dundee on the map 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Animal lovers will likely want to make a stop at Piedras Blancas Rookery, which claims to be the world’s only elephant seal rookery that is free and open to the public 365 days a year. Hearst Castle has reopened. Make it the starting point for a one-of-a-kind Highway 1 road trip 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The bulk of these activities take place in rookeries that are often inaccessible to the flightless or boatless. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The state pathologist confirmed that seven double-crested cormorants at the rookery tested positive for avian flu, he said. Search Menu Menu The Washington Post ProfileSolid ProfileSolid The Washington Post Placeholder while article actions load Wp ArrowRight GiftOutline Loading... Loading... 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The Jet Skis either deliberately or accidentally can go up too close to the rookeries. Jet Skis: New rules crack down on reckless water scooter use 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Located on Highway 1 between San Francisco and Santa Cruz, Año Nuevo State Park is home to one of the world’s largest rookeries for northern elephant seals. Savoring the noisy spectacle of elephant seal breeding season in California’s Año Nuevo State Park 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Other statues — of the Blessed Mother and an eclectic assortment of saints — stand in their multitudes like a rookery of colorful penguins. These churches have been closed, but their artifacts live on 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In June and early July, the rookery would typically resemble a nursery overrun with featherless black-skinned newborns with pterodactyl features or weeks-old hatchlings with heart-shaped brown patches on their backs. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Proponents also are thinking big about environmental repair, restoring 6,600 acres of ecosystems such as wetlands, bird rookery islands, and oyster reefs, some located elsewhere along the Texas shore. A $26-billion plan to save the Houston area from rising seas 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z McIlhenny, created an egret rookery at the island in 1895 because the birds were nearing extermination by hunters who sold their plumage to adorn women’s hats. Making hot sauce and working to save wetlands 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z In the rookery, jet-black newborn pups wriggled close to their mothers. Savoring the noisy spectacle of elephant seal breeding season in California’s Año Nuevo State Park 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z These more than 1,000 pound mammals would stay here a bit longer before migrating to rookeries. Ghost shrimp, humpbacks, tiny plankton: See Puget Sound surge with springtime life 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Wes piloted the boat across the Maryland state line and into Virginia and rounded a bend partially obscuring the rookery on Chesapeake Bay Foundation land. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The marsh “island” in Cameron Parish is the only brown pelican rookery in southwest Louisiana. Engineers help restore Louisiana island, save brown pelicans 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Some were planted with trees, others prepared as rookeries for seabirds and wading birds. Making hot sauce and working to save wetlands 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z The mega-scheme is likely to involve blasting petrel rookeries, disturbing penguin colonies and encasing a stretch of the wilderness in more than 115,000 tonnes of concrete. 'A real bad precedent': Australia criticised for Antarctica airport plan 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z By examining a nearby rookery over multiple generations, researchers have been able to study what threatens their existence. The Alaska facility giving aquatic animals a 'second chance at life' 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The rookery was mainly populated by adults, with a few youngsters in the mix. Pelicans’ paradise on Smith Island, Md. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Pikelot is a low coral islet, with forest and scrub, that is home to a seabird rookery and turtle nesting site. Giant SOS on Pacific isle leads to rescue of three stranded sailors 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Uninhabited Pikelot Island, less than half a kilometre long, is a low coral atoll, heavily forested and home to a seabird rookery and turtle nesting site. Missing sailors stranded on Pacific island saved by giant SOS in the sand 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z But a project to restore Queen Bess island, a crucial rookery for thousands of the birds, is only now nearing completion. 'I pray to God it never happens again': Gulf coast bears the scars of historic oil spill 10 years on 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The remaining budget hawks left in this rookery expound often on the practical reasons to control spending: Inflation, the insolvency of entitlement programs, being beholden to foreign creditors and on and on. Tom Coburn, R.I.P. 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Despite its small size, it’s been Louisiana’s fourth largest brown pelican rookery, producing 15% to 20% of its nests, eggs and chicks, the department said. Louisiana setting rules for island where pelicans nest 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z While the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Gatorland seasonally host bird rookeries around the alligator ponds, Gatorama and Everglades Alligator Farm don’t. Alligators Don't Play Pick Up Sticks to Lure Lunch 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z A ficus tree serving as a rookery split in half and partially fell last week. Animal rescue group needs help caring for 89 baby birds 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z International Bird Rescue says it got a call Wednesday after a ficus tree that was serving as a rookery split in half and partially fell. Baby herons, egrets rescued after tree splits in Oakland 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z This is my place: stone rookery perched above the citadels of knowledge, alone with the bats and my bell, “Bellringer” 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z SAT-SUN Walk to a large rookery near the park, about a mile; bring binoculars if you have them; for ages 8 and older, 10 a.m. Community calendar: Seattle Cocktail Week, Rock and Gem Show, Spring Native Art Market 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z It is set in a coastal community in Florida, where word has gone around that a man named Two-Gun George is “watching” a rookery of egrets. What Marjory Stoneman Douglas Understood About the Fight for What Is Right 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z For years New York City, which is the rookery where Wall Street’s vulture capitalists roost, has drawn billions of dollars of ‘hot’ money that’s invested in luxury housing for the world’s dictators and global miscreants. What story would Charles Dickens tell this Christmas if he visited New York City in Trump's America? 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z His destination: a great blue heron rookery on an island. St. Croix riverway marks 50 years 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Researchers use the equipment to follow survival rates, in particular reproductive females in the rookery. Sea lion researchers turn to crowdfunding for equipment 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The country’s only breeding colony of magnificent frigatebirds lives here, having moved west when development encroached on their former rookery, closer to Key West. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The damaged areas include a heron rookery that is closed off to people. 2 charged with damaging nature preserve to make bike trail 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z But instead, they found female sea turtles from the Pacific Ocean's largest and most important green sea turtle rookery now outnumber males by at least 116 to 1. 99% of These Sea Turtles Are Turning Female—Here’s Why 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, harbor seals began gathering at Children’s Pool, creating a rookery and polluted the area with waste. Children's Pool closes for pupping season as legal war continues 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Those waters are home to five species of endangered turtle, deep-water coral reefs that are thousands of years old, and 14 million seabirds living in the world’s largest tropical rookery. Fishery Managers Seek to Gut Pacific Marine Monuments 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s strong, resembling a musty, rarely maintained livestock barn, and it reaches well beyond the clustered nests, or the rookery, hovering over the handful of homes. Egrets in some North Texas neighborhoods make unwanted mess 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The bird discovered a tasty treat near a rookery at the Ballard Locks. I’ll have the fish: Great blue heron takes a midair snack break 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z A recent look at 75 sea turtle rookeries around the world showed the ratio of females to males was roughly 3 to 1. 99% of These Sea Turtles Are Turning Female—Here’s Why 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, harbor seals began gathering there and creating a rookery. Children’s Pool beach reopens as legal battle over seals continues 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Rant to the group of kids who shot off firecrackers at the rookery that scared off 15-20 herons that may never return. Trucks, cover your cargo; kids, don’t harass herons; parents, don’t bring tot to fancy eatery 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z There’s no access to the ravine, home to Seattle’s largest heron rookery, but there’s a pedestrian bridge through it. 5 things to do in Magnolia this week 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Trail users may see moose or a blue heron rookery, as well as aspens, pines and rock outcroppings. The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z By Tuesday afternoon, a Marine Mammal Center veterinarian sedated the seal, and she was taken to Chimney Rock at Point Reyes, the site of an established elephant seal rookery. Elephant seal that tried to cross California highway is now a mom 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The tour includes a visit to the seabird rookery at Gull Island and to an oyster farm, but otherwise is open-ended. New Kachemak Bay tour offers science, sightseeing 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z The refuge is a nature lover’s paradise where tour boat operators ferry sightseers around the rookery. U.S. Wildlife Service baffled by exodus of birds from Florida isle 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z "Any rookery that's persisted for decades as one of the largest colonies is incredibly important," said Janell Brush, an avian researcher with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Bird mystery: Thousands disappear and abandon eggs, nests on island off Florida's Gulf Coast 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z "These little pups, so desperate and so thin, are leaving the rookeries long before they're capable of hunting effectively," Shawn Johnson, director of veterinary science at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, told Reuters. SeaWorld suspends sea lion show so trainers can help rescue effort 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z “When I was working at Almond Marsh, I noticed that at the rookery, the branches were breaking off,” Nowak said. EXCHANGE: Grayslake man protecting blue herons 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Until the massive B-15A iceberg floated free several years later, biologists routinely found emaciated penguin carcasses en route between rookery and sea. Continental Collapse: Bearing Witness to Antarctica’s Intensifying Transition [Excerpt] 2014-04-04T14:00:00Z Alligators living beneath bird rookeries used them, while others didn’t. Crocodiles and their ilk may be smarter than they look 2013-12-09T21:17:59Z There is an osprey rookery built into a copse of trees at an overlook onto the river. Critic’s Notebook: Newark Revival Wears Orange Along the River 2013-07-21T02:05:22Z Revealing the rookeries. gathers in huge flocks to roost. 10 consequences of the late spring 2013-05-28T09:59:34Z So far, I’ve personally only had the opportunity to watch rookeries from ground-level, but it’s obvious that lots of interesting stuff is going on up there. In pursuit of the Rook 2013-05-12T17:45:05.410Z Wan said the nearest seal rookery to Children's Pool is 200 miles north in Ventura County, citing that as a key reason the seals at Children's Pool should be protected. San Diego Limits Beach Access to Guard Seals from Human Harassment 2013-03-21T16:45:02.643Z The researchers think that as a result, Morgan and the other misbehaving otters redirected their normal sexual responses toward the harbor seal pups, born at a large rookery in the same area. In Nature, Fatal Attractions Can Be Part of Life 2012-11-26T22:16:17Z A modern-day rookery run by thieves and fraudsters where anything goes. Company law: root-and-branch reform is essential to the economy 2012-10-06T23:06:04Z With trees blossoming later this year there have been much clearer views of these amazing rookeries. 10 consequences of the late spring 2013-05-28T09:59:34Z Few bird colonies can have aroused as much interest as rookeries. In pursuit of the Rook 2013-05-12T17:45:05.410Z Social behavior in hatchling green iguanas: life at a reptile rookery. Amazing social life of the Green iguana 2012-09-17T16:45:00.183Z "We shall have the whole rookery of you college gents here presently." Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z The dogs almost immediately left, and made for the penguin rookeries, where they killed and worried the birds by hundreds. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z If they did, the rent they would receive would be far less than the rookeries yielded, and they must sell their property or mortgage it. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z However, I really want to spend appropriate time properly observing the goings-on at an active rookery. In pursuit of the Rook 2013-05-12T17:45:05.410Z In those days Punta Arenas was a supply depot for a fleet of sealing schooners that eventually destroyed the rookeries of the region to the south. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z There were high hopes of Naples when the "risanamento" was begun, that great scheme of clearance which was to let in fresh air and sunshine among the rookeries. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Overcrowding was worse in the West London rookeries than it had been in the East. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z On a rock, near the Oliver Islands, was a small 'rookery' of hair-seal; and, in our progress down the sound, we passed some few shags and divers. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z There seems to be some sort of relationship between Rooks and falcons, with Common kestrels Falco tinnunculus and Lesser kestrels F. naumanni both being well-known for their habit of sometimes nesting right within a rookery. In pursuit of the Rook 2013-05-12T17:45:05.410Z Very noble woodlands, too: tall elms with clanging rookeries, and, nestling below them, an old toll-house. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z As we watched, the penguins were swimming, jumping up onto the shore, and waddling around the rookery. Scientist at Work Blog: A Glimpse of Polar History 2012-01-23T16:02:03Z By the lapse of time and the congestion of population, certain quarters of the city, in old Glasgow especially, had become slums and rookeries of the worst description. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z A great number of fur seal, besides two of their rookeries, or breeding-places, were also seen. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Long-eared owls Asio otus and Ospreys Pandion haliaetus have also nested within active rookeries on occasion, and rookeries are sometimes mixed with active nests belonging to herons, cormorants and ibises. In pursuit of the Rook 2013-05-12T17:45:05.410Z We wandered through numerous apartments simply yet elegantly furnished, with various antechambers and corridors, among which were interspersed little plots laid out with dwarf plantations, artistically-designed grottoes, and "rookeries." Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z From there we walked over to get a fantastic view of a penguin rookery. Scientist at Work Blog: A Glimpse of Polar History 2012-01-23T16:02:03Z A few days after, his room in a rookery called Grey's Buildings, was entered. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z Just as a solemn rookery befits an ancestral mansion, so these Bees of the Bodleian form a fitting accompaniment to the place of their choice. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z Rooks are highly social birds that nest in large colonies called rookeries. In pursuit of the Rook 2013-05-12T17:45:05.410Z So far as we can judge, the vesper-bell will continue for all time to gather in the natives to the cities as rookeries unite their flocks when every sun goes down. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The captain went straight down to the bridge; then he paused, seeming to hesitate a moment, then turned to the right, striking into what seemed very much like a nest of rookeries. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z On the sea-coast, where Rooks are only casual visitors, the Jackdaw has no opportunity of hanging himself on as an appendage to a rookery, but even here he must be a client. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z With her mate she flew along the coast to where her people built their rookery year by year. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z These appear in small numbers at first but increase as the season advances, till the middle of July; when the rookeries are all full, the females often overlapping each other. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z A rival service was going on in the rookery on Moat Hill, in which the congregation joined with hoarse unanimity. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z Not only are the rooks there in legions, having their rookeries in the park, but, throughout the forest, daws, carrion crows, jays, and magpies are abundant. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z In Algeria it is said to nest in "societies more densely crowded than any rookery," the nests being raised on islets with stout foundations constructed by the bird. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z I remember, as a child, sitting out of doors on an evening of a warm summer or autumn day, and repeating the crow charm to flights of rooks, as they winked home to their rookery. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z By the middle of June all the males have arrived, and having adjusted their differences and divided the rookeries between them, await the arrival of the females. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z But while they had met with sundry adventures of considerable importance while there, none of them could claim to have run across the ghost said to be in charge of the old rookery. Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield 2011-09-22T02:00:24.220Z Presently we can circle around the old rookery and make sure that they don’t take up your plan of tunneling out. The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island 2011-09-22T02:00:23.407Z There was a rookery not far from Jeannie’s abode, and at this she never tired gazing. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z "Beg pardon, but can you tell me——" "Good morning, Mr. Saxton, are you acquainted in this rookery?" The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z The roof of the old rookery on the bluff has just fallen in, and millions of sparks go up toward the cloudy sky. No title 2011-08-23T02:00:29.833Z Chickens are safer under or near a rookery from this cause: a hawk approaching them would alarm the rooks and be beaten away. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Good! good! let’s storm the measly old rookery, and hold up those hoboes at the muzzle of our guns. The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island 2011-09-22T02:00:23.407Z Near large rookeries several such outlying colonies may be seen. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Their requirements are few: they seek no shelter from the terrible Antarctic gales, their rookeries in most cases being in open wind-swept spots. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z As a result, bright sheets of flame sprung up, and, in less time almost than it takes to tell it, the interior of the old rookery was on fire in several places. No title 2011-08-23T02:00:29.833Z Returning to the farm again as a centre, the rookery remains to be examined, and the ways and habits of the inhabitants of the hedges. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The crowded human rookeries That mar this Christian land. Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z Near it was a rookery, and the rooks lived safe in the high trees, whose trunks were all covered with ivy or moss, and a number of fungusses grew about their large roots. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z In fact, three of the four rookeries I visited were possibly in the three most windy regions of the Antarctic. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Meantime Fritz had been in the old rookery some time prior to the arrival of the bearded men. No title 2011-08-23T02:00:29.833Z Here may be seen far more rookeries than in any other direction. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Gulls and amphibious birds abound in large variety; three kinds of penguin have their rookeries and breed here, migrating yearly for some months to the South American mainland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z He had seen that rookery of black heads through the dining-room window. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z The first Adélie penguins arrived at the Ridley Beach rookery, Cape Adare, on October 13. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z After almost 20 years of restocking and a fishing moratorium, the fish are a food source for the herons, now some 200 strong, with a rookery on an island in the river. Signs of an Urban River?s Revival in Virginia 2011-06-05T00:10:04Z It would be necessary to ask the assistance of the proprietors of the nearest rookeries, and beg them for one year to refrain from shooting the young rooks, after the well-known custom. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It was through his advocacy that the Artisans’ Dwellings Act was put into force in Norwich, and the rookeries in St. Paul’s were demolished. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z From vast herds, numbering a great many hundreds of thousands, the seals have been reduced until their rookeries in the islands of the northern Pacific belonging to the United States have been almost depopulated. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z By 4 P.M. there must have been close on a hundred penguins at the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The old rookery looks desolate enough, and seems to sympathize with its master's fortunes! Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z By counting the nests from which the cry proceeds the condition of the rookery is ascertained, and the amount of sport it will afford reckoned with some certainty. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z I’d pity the fellows who spent a rainy day in such a rookery. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z You cannot raid rookeries and get away with it. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z They were then for the most part squatting about the rookery, well scattered, some solitary, others in groups, and facing in all directions. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The place is a shady-looking rookery, no porch or steps, door opening right on the sidewalk, three windows to each floor, mansard roof. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The time selected to rob a rookery is generally just before the date fixed for the shooting, because the young birds are of little use for cooking till about ready to fly. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The erring individual in our country is always treated like the wounded crow,—the whole rookery is down upon him at once. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Hushed instructions were given to return to the rookery. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z During the night of October 16 the number of penguins increased greatly, and on the morning of the 17th there was a thin sprinkling scattered over the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z He shakes down a crow's rookery and believes in his heart it's an eagle's nest. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Hardly a farmhouse lying near this belt but has got its rookery, large or small. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z It is just then that the plume-hunters visit the rookeries and shoot the parents, leaving the helpless, almost fully-fledged, young to die in the nest, so high overhead. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z The rookeries lay close to the south and west and the ship had been driven toward the northeast point of St. Paul's Island. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z A group of about a dozen penguins which arrived near the ice-foot in the morning, halted on the sea-ice without ascending the little slope leading to the rookery, and stayed there all day. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Still, she worried that because there are so many large rookeries nearby, far more pelicans would soon be headed to the center. Pelicans, Back from Brink of Extinction, Face Threat From Oil Spill 2010-06-05T02:10:00Z No hawk will attempt to approach a rookery—the rooks would attack him en masse and easily put him to flight. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z There is a large Gannet rookery on Cat Island, east of Flinders Island, where probably 4000 pairs of these fine birds nest each year. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z Marr had taken the long chance and reached the waters about the rookeries. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z As I strolled through the rookery, most of the birds took little or no notice of me. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z At this point the pelicans had finished breeding before my arrival—although a fortnight later Mr. Job found thousands of fresh eggs in their great rookeries west of the mouth of the Mississippi. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Once these rookeries were established, an inducement to follow this route would arise in the invariable habit of the birds of visiting their nesting-trees even when the actual nesting time is past. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z At breeding time these birds assemble in very large companies, and their nesting-places are called heronries or rookeries. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z Beyond, and to leeward of the bull herd, were richer rookeries where had gathered the bachelor seals and those denied the other homes. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z In the morning quite a large number lay down on the sea-ice, a few yards short of the rookery, content apparently to have got so far. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Here the backsliders most do congregate, and here are located rookeries devoted to their temporary lodgment. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Two rooks marked with white resided at the rookery here for several years. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The chief rookeries here are in the Riverina, where the great annual overflow of that fine river, the Murray, converts the country into a great series of lakes and swamps. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z I shall land at the rookeries and try to reach the guard. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Our hut, being built on the rookery, could only be approached through crowds of penguins. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z But it's short, and if you should forget it, you have only to go out and stand beneath a rookery, and you'll remember it in a minute. Deep Moat Grange What a rookery! but, at the same time, very convenient for gents in our line. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 Sailors, tired of ship's fare, often visit these "rookeries." An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z A rattle of oars swung up the slight breeze, and seals barked from the red shores of the rookery. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Later, when the rookery was getting filled up, and only a few birds remained unmated in that vast crowd of some three-quarters of a million, her chances were not so good. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z I knew that it could only be that donkey Joe, broke loose from his rookery; so, of course, I did not turn round, nor make the least sign. Deep Moat Grange The parent birds immediately set about preparing new habitations to breed again; but not finding any other in the neighborhood high enough for them, they determined to effect a settlement in the rookery. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Only the poorest and the most unfortunate would stay in such a rookery. Two Prisoners The situation had cleared during the hours since leaving St. Paul Island and the rookeries. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z As time went on I became certain that invariably pairing took place after arrival at the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z When that single apartment is at the top of the rookery, the pitiful spectacle is seen of little children with bowed or bent legs climbing painfully up the squalid stairs. Stand Up, Ye Dead The crows, sated with the gleanings of harvest fields, fluttered in their rookeries with scarcely a caw. The Great Discovery “S’pose the old rookery has been burned or made way with?” The Auto Boys' Vacation The flare from this rocket brought out the rookeries and the whaleboats; the dead, skinned seals; the crouched figures of the crew ashore. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z He threaded his way through nearly the whole length of the rookery by himself, avoiding the tenanted knolls where the nests were, by keeping to the emptier hollows. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z He went around himself through the rookeries of the district, and gathered the poor lads even in his own parlor; he fed and clothed them; he advised and prayed with them. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them He lives in a rookery in which many families are crowded one on the top of the other—a rabbit-warren infested by many and strange odours. The Great Discovery "Phew!" exclaimed Tod, as he peeped through the window of a gloomy, broken-down rookery. John Marsh's Millions The night herons come every spring to their ancient rookery in a swamp hard by. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road A few occasionally flew about over the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z He exerted his talent in embellishing this building, and in making a cheerful spot in the midst of a ward filled with rookeries and broken-down tenements. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Immediately the treacherous prisoner grapples hold of his obliging friend, and never afterwards lets him escape; so, by fastening down one after another, we might entrap the whole rookery.” Holiday House A Series of Tales Then he was in the city and searching out the doctor's office in a vast, ancient rookery on the Left Bank. The Time Mirror Shoals of Italian children lived in that rookery, and in those the workmen tore down, in the actual physical atmosphere of the dump. The Children of the Poor Let me here call attention to the fact that up to now not a single bird out of all those thousands had left the rookery once it had entered it. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Presently we landed on a beach which looked like it was a seal rookery, once, an' works our way to where a good-sized creek comes plungin' down to the sea. The Boy With the U.S. Miners In a large rookery, some outcasts are frequently to be observed living apart from the rest, and not allowed to associate with their more respectable brethren. Holiday House A Series of Tales He had leased and was going to open up next week, anyhow, in the old rookeries at the ford, right under the nose of Uncle Sam, yet without his jurisdiction. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade A Northumbrian saying informs us that the rooks left the rookery of Chipchase before the family of Reed left that place. Folk-lore of Shakespeare In the course of a walk through the rookery considerable diversity in the choice of nesting sites was to be noticed. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z To her London, Berlin, Paris were replicas of Constantinople, cosmopolitan rookeries where one could meet interesting men. Command It is one thing, however, to destroy the rookeries; it is another and totally different thing to exterminate the crows. Border Raids and Reivers A rookery is an example of a true community. Territory in Bird Life In one wood there was a large heronry, in another a rookery. Wanderings in South America I have said that the tide flowed past the rookery at the rate of some five or six knots. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z But we waxed more ambitious as we grew old—and then woe to the rookery on the elm-tree grove! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) "Don't you think it was kind of him to draw them for our rookery, my dear Priscilla?" says Miss Penelope, suggestively. Rossmoyne There is much evidence to show that mutual protection is a necessary condition of the Rook's existence; many cases are on record of rookeries being destroyed by Carrion-Crows, Hooded Crows, and Ravens. Territory in Bird Life "She makes a paradise of your old rookery!" The Deaves Affair All day these floes, often crowded to their utmost capacity, would float past the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z "This is a palace compared with some of the rookeries about here," replied Arnold, with a laugh. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Hat, there are spooks in this old rookery. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. It was backed by a rookery of old and enormous elms. Memoirs of Life and Literature In my own garden, for instance, there is a rook who acts as chaplain to a whole rookery. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 Consequently, little red heaps of mashed up and half digested euphausia were to be seen about the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z I have left the seal rookeries alone—they are too well guarded nowadays—and traded with the natives for their furs. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story It may be ungenerous to rejoice in any man's misfortune," said Maverick, "but in a sanitary point of view I am thankful those old rookeries have come to an end. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart He was a sturdy yeoman, living in an old house with a moat, a rookery, and fishponds. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The woodchuck "holes up" in late September; the crows flock and select their rookery about the same time, and the small wood newts or salamanders soon begin to migrate to the marshes. Ways of Nature These hang about the rookery often in little bands. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z But in the fall, I and all my relations and friends live together in great roosts or rookeries. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 1897 “What in thunder do you lock this old rookery up for?” At the Crossroads "But whoever would be grunting like that in this old rookery, I'd like to know?" Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School Not long afterwards, or early in October, they may be seen morning and evening going to and from their rookeries. Ways of Nature Some way back I made some allusion to the way in which many of the penguins were choosing sites up the precipitous sides of the Cape at the back of the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z These birds are very abundant in most marshy localities along the Gulf coast, especially in Florida, where they nest in rookeries of thousands of individuals. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. He took me night after night through old buildings up in Montparnasse, immense and dismal rookeries crowded with Poles, Bohemians and God knows what other races, all feverish post-impressionists. The Harbor I assisted a little, more especially at a rookery called Pad's Hole, then a den of thieves—now a low-lying little spot. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly No lone house in Wales, with a mountain and rookery, is more contemplative than this Court. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The greater number who had undertaken this did so at a time when there were ample spaces unoccupied in the most eligible parts of the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The Pacific Kittiwake breeds in immense rookeries on some of the islands in Bering Sea. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The nests are far more closely packed together than in any rookery, and are built one above another, from the height of twenty feet to the top of the tallest trees. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Occasionally we catch sight of what looks like a rookery in the trees seen against the sky; however, the dark bunches are not nests at all, but lumps of mistletoe growing freely. Round the Wonderful World Having civilly requested Mr. W—— to go to the devil at his earliest convenience, I left him and his rookery in disgust, and shifted my quarters over to Boston. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. I have mentioned that large masses of ice were stranded by the sea along the shores of the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Nest of wet sedge stalks and rubbish placed in a bunch of standing sedge in shallow water; at least five thousand birds in rookery. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. She did such dressmaking as the neighborhood offered, but they moved constantly as fortunes grew lower and lower, sheltering at last in two rooms in a rookery in Tower Hamlets. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Jays and magpies, however, she could not abide, nor crows and rooks, and a curious story is told of a rookery which these birds tried to establish near the house. Highways and Byways in Surrey Then dark they lie and stark they lie—rookery, dune, and floe, And the Northern Lights come down o' nights to dance with the houseless snow. The Seven Seas The waste of life in an Adélie rookery is very great, and is due to the following causes: The eggs. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z As they finally came out from beneath the last great rookery, the sisters found themselves in London, the great and busy city of four hundred thousand inhabitants. The Panchronicon A triangular piece of ground, with a sprinkling of elms about it, is all that is left of the rookery in which Mr. Tupman met with an accident from the unskilful marksmanship of Winkle. Dickens-Land There is a little pond near the rookeries, and by it a row of elms. The Toilers of the Field The proximity of a rookery does not affect all people alike. Birds in the Calendar One of these slides took place whilst we were at the rookery, doing terrible damage. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Baguian is famed throughout those seas as a rookery for the giant tortoise—testudo elephantopus. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China When the mothers are killed the young ones, left in the rookeries upon the Pribilof Islands, soon die of starvation. Conservation Reader The farmyard and rick-barton were a little way up the narrow valley, on one side of which there was a rookery. The Toilers of the Field Yet carrion crows, like herons, are among the rook's most determined enemies, and cases of rookeries being destroyed by both birds are on record. Birds in the Calendar After this we saw the same procedure being enacted in many other places, the penguins coming down from the rookery and forming small bands which joined together. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The nearest approach to the flame which he allowed himself was a renewal of his old friendship with Grey, who was still working on in his Westminister rookery. Tom Brown at Oxford "Late in Summer, bagged your game; in early Autumn, fitted up this jolly old rookery—" Cora gave a sniff of disdain. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Then began the mournful procession of Japanese and poor whites occupying the rookeries about Dupont street and along Pine. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Some who, ordinarily dwelling in cities, suffer from lack of bird neighbours, would regard the deliberate destruction of a rookery as an act of vandalism. Birds in the Calendar In the autumn of 1912, at a small rookery which I came upon on Inexpressible Island, I had an opportunity of watching their first attempts in this direction. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The Rectory looks large and comfortable, and its grounds well cared for and extensive, with a rookery of elms at the lawn's end. Tom Brown at Oxford To be sure, Steve Loveland was fortunate in the selection of his rookery, but that might be called an outcome of his genius—a genius with which bachelors are not supposed to be blessed. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives The wretched puddles by the way, the frowning rookeries where misery squalled, the melancholy noises of the street, were passed unheeded by. The House with the Green Shutters So he scoured every poor quarter of the town, every rookery of old Douglas, and this was set down to an interest in the poor. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Then these in time disappeared, leaving the rookery empty and desolate. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z As we were returning home, we saw a gentleman, who was very ill, sitting under a shady tree at the corner of his rookery. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Now the rook told his friends at the rookery, and they told everybody else, and when people came to talk about it, they said it was very true. Wood Magic A Fable The question is, how we shall be able to find him in this rookery of a place. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The City maybe radiant with palaces, but its satellites are sure to be made up in good part of rookeries and hovels. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. In fact, the scientists who visited the rookery were unable to get good specimens of dead chicks, as all of these had been treated in this way. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The rookeries of the Pribilof Islands have been so nearly exhausted, that the killing season has been suspended for a term of years. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges It was new then, in an old rookery of a house, but the room clean an' decent, an' just a little sign out, 'Helping Hand for Men.' Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science This is what he says: 'Here and there among the low thicket scrubs are vast rookeries of aquatic birds, whose clamour is deafening. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 The stream of birds from the rookery was flying in the same direction. The Black Phantom As I am about to describe the manners and customs of Adélie penguins at the Cape Adare rookery, I will give a short description of that spot. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Such fans may on a warm day be in motion at the same time by the hundred thousand at a "rookery." The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II But when Aristophanes touches the same chapter, he goes into picturesque details about the rookeries and the wine-jars inhabited by the newcomers. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 In one rookery there were many varieties of these oceanic birds, and a species of booby that seems to be peculiar to Christmas Island. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 He would change the name of his château—the rotten old rookery—from Beau Rivage to Belle Alliance. Waring's Peril There was a part of the ice-foot on the south side of the rookery where a track worn by many ascending penguins could be seen, leading from the sea-ice on to the beach. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z I explained that you wanted to see some crevasses from the air, and I'd be wandering around looking for them on the way to the rookery. Long Ago, Far Away Who could be happy in that musty old rookery! A Little Girl of Long Ago "But not without first knowing that you, too, in all likelihood, will adorn an equally suitable branch, my Lord of the thieves' rookery," said the jester, smiling. Under the Rose At one of the rocky shore rookeries millions of these grotesque birds were seen. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Not ten yards from this well-worn track a perfectly easy slope led up from the sea-ice to the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The nests are built upon high trees, and resemble immense rookeries. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire But when Craney mentioned Sanchez, the ghost and the drinking bout by night at the rookery, Case said he must have been nigher to jimjams than he'd got in a year. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War There was a regular encampment or rookery of them, extending for five or six hundred yards in length, and from one to two dozen in breadth. A Voyage round the World A book for boys It has entirely altered the aspect of the place; not perhaps before it was necessary, for the whole neighbourhood had degenerated into rookeries of the vilest description. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting At 9 P.M. it was getting dusk, and the rookery comparatively silent, although on some of the knolls two or three birds might be seen still busily working, toddling to and fro fetching stones. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Beyond the heron rookery the waterway wound into the depths of a dark, forbidding region, where the Spanish moss hung thick, and the great trees leaned over the water. Frank Merriwell Down South They chucks their old rookeries slam up against one another, to keep 'em from fallin' over, I guess. Shorty McCabe At any rate, you would be, if you avoid the rookeries, where the lower class of European inhabitants live. At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt The wood-pigeons were cooing, the young rooks cawing shrilly in the rookery. The Daughters of Danaus It would be difficult to estimate the number of penguins that poured into the rookery during the following day. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z "I knew you wouldn't get out this way, for we have not passed the rookeries of the herons, as you must remember." Frank Merriwell Down South So saying the lively urchin grasped his new friend by the hand and led him by a rickety staircase to the “rookeries” above. The Garret and the Garden “You’re like a row in a rookery, father—nothing but caws,” interrupted Tom. Jacob Faithful He had watched such streaming companies start forth from the old rookery, ever since his boyhood. The Daughters of Danaus During the first week of the nesting season, when plenty of fresh arrivals were continually pouring into the rookery, she did not have long to wait as a rule. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The first demolition of a rookery of vice and squalor took place in 1840, when New Oxford Street was driven through Slumland. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London In a short time the trio ascended the rookery stair and presented themselves to the party in the garret-garden just as Sam Blake and Tommy Splint were about to leave it. The Garret and the Garden Besides the squirrels which are constantly there, we see jays, wood-pigeons, jackdaws, rooks, and flocks of the smaller birds; if snow should prevail, a whole rookery will come to see what is to be had. Wild Nature Won By Kindness Among the big trees behind the house, there was a populous rookery, noisy now with the squeaky voices of the young birds, and the deeper cawing of the parent rooks. The Daughters of Danaus In describing the Cape Adare rookery I mentioned the fact that the pebbles entering into the formation of the beach are basaltic, and therefore of a dead black shade. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The space to the north of the High and Broad Streets was previously a notorious rookery. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London “If I were you, Mac, I wouldn’t go nigh the rookery with them on, or them birds will take you for a fledgeling, mister, I guess!” The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land No, you couldn't make 'em," was the instant reply, "but I never heard of a boat landin' at a rookery. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries They were easily killed with clubs on the breeding rookeries, and provided an acceptable meat supply for fishermen and other toilers of the sea; also their feathers were sought. The Bird Study Book When I visited Cape Royds in 1911 I found a couple nesting alone in a cove known as “Black Sand Beach,” some half mile from the rookery there. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The widening of streets now became popular, and a spot long famed for the degradation of its inhabitants, was thrown open to the activities of trade, and its rookeries replaced by marble palaces. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A respectable old château, with a rookery, quick hedges, and extensive woods, thick enough for a fox covert, kept up the illusion agreeably. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 "Better go slower," warned Hank, pulling him back gently; "we're not far from the rookery." The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries This fact was soon discovered and thousands were slaughtered every summer, their wings cut off, and their bodies left to rot among the nests on the rookeries. The Bird Study Book They never played on the ground of the rookery itself, but only on the sea-ice and the ice-foot and in the water, and I may here mention another favourite pastime of theirs. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z He delighted in riding, in shooting rooks in the Hall rookery, and in fishing for trout with clumsy tackle and worm. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs There came a murmur rising now and again to a shriek, issuing, he guessed, from the clak-clak rookery above. Storm Over Warlock He got into bed, however, but tossed about uneasily for hours, the distant roaring of the seals on the rookery and other unaccustomed noises keeping him awake. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries I have been in many of these "rookeries" and know that the warden who undertakes to guard one of them takes his life in his hand. The Bird Study Book The screes at the foot of the cliff at Cape Adare are perhaps the most thickly populated part of the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The house where he stayed still stands, and the rookery still exists. Highways and Byways in Sussex There were some poplars near a part of the rookery, and when the nests were fully occupied with young the old birds frequently alighted on the very top of an adjacent poplar. Round About a Great Estate We've caught six men red-handed right on the rookery, with dead seals, most of them females. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries The shouting of a pair of Sandhill Cranes awakened us at daylight, and, to quote Greene, the warden, the sun was about "two hands high" when we started into the rookery. The Bird Study Book So carefully did we keep the entire rookery under observation that I do not think it likely there were any more Isabelline forms. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Often it takes the trained and searching eye to detect in the majestic façade the evidences that the palace has degenerated into a rookery for pariahs. The Plum Tree 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 Most of 'em went over to the south'ard," he pointed down the rookery, "where there was a boat I hadn't seen, but these six tried to rush me. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries The teeming thousands of birds in this rookery feed their young to a more or less extent on fish, and from the nests many fragments fall into the mud and water below. The Bird Study Book Arriving at the rookeries somewhat later than the Adélies, they do not lay their eggs until the beginning of December. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The writer remembers a case in which a rookery was deserted just before misfortune fell upon the gentleman who occupied the house around which grew the trees occupied by the rooks. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales It was through inquiring about the age of the rookery that this thought took shape. Round About a Great Estate The whole gathering is called a 'rookery,' though there are no rooks or other birds around. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries He would build on his lots in the city miserable shanties and rookeries, which would taint the neighborhood and enable him to buy out his neighbors at low rates. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The dead bodies of hundreds of chicks are seen strewn about the rookery, and especially in the neighbourhood of the Skuas' nests, as very often they carry them there. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z At that middle hour of the night even New York's prowlers of the dark had retired to their foul rookeries. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York About three months ago one of the most wretched rookeries in the city was cleared out and cleansed by order of the Board of Health. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Those that have to stay on the rookery lie flat on their back and fan themselves. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Then he yanked his egret shooters out of the rookery and put them on the job. The Plunderer The first time the rookery at Cape Crozier was visited, not above one thousand birds occupied it. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z He went to Astoria and located a large rookery below Tillamook Head; but found it could be reached only by a most difficult trail. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Spent months with my uncle, who is a doctor in Cincinnati, during an epidemic, and he often had to clean out rookeries just to stamp out the disease. The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain Some of 'em are like skeletons when they leave the rookeries in August. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries They guard so carefully that nobody can get into the rookeries, not a soul except Garman's gang. The Plunderer Well, I've heard it said that there's a big crow rookery somewhere back in the gloomy old Black Water Swamps; but I never met anybody that had ever set eyes on the same. Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps They reached the cliff which towers several hundred feet above the beach, and from which they had a glorious view of the rocks and rookeries below that were literally alive with sea lions. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Last March I was standing near a rookery, noting the contention and quarrelling, the downright tyranny, and brigandage which is carried on there. Nature Near London There isn't a sea-catch on the rookery that hasn't had from ten to twenty fights already this year. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries He was looking at one of the rarest sights beheld by men, a great egret rookery with its countless beautiful birds settling upon their nests for the night. The Plunderer From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the gray and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Over the Pera roofs swept flocks of crows to roost in their garden rookeries at the center of the town. The Lighted Match There is a rook with white feathers in the wing which belongs to an adjacent rookery, and I have observed a blackbird also streaked with white. Nature Near London This path through the rookery gives just room for two holluschickie to pass. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries We've got the rookery, got twenty good men hidden there; they'll never shoot there again; and the rest of the men are after the gang in the cypress swamp. The Plunderer There is another rookery in the town, in the garden of Mrs. Cross, a friend of my mother's. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. On the 19th July the party descended by the snow slopes to the Emperor penguin rookery. South with Scott The division of this created a perfect storm of noise, and we left the five or six Arab women out-shrieking a whole rookery. Letters from Egypt "They go for the first time to the rookeries in their second year." The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Garman saw the rookeries, and couldn't keep his hands off them. The Plunderer There is an old rookery belonging to the Rectory close by our house; and one day the rooks from there came to our elm-tree. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Captain Scott being satisfied that no landing was possible, we in the boat returned to the ship and proceeded in her to the penguin rookery, a mile or so farther west. South with Scott Much more is speedily becoming so; and without some guidance the student will scarcely venture into that dark and doubtful rookery of tortuous streets and unnumbered houses—the London of the Eighteenth Century. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Fifty years ago, every available inch of all the beach was rookery, settled as thick as in the rookery you saw just now. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries The house was a veritable rookery above the first floor. The Blood Ship Rooks always leave the town rookeries for the country as soon as their young ones are able to fly. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Wilson picked up rounded pieces of ice at the rookery which the stupid Emperors had been cherishing, fondly imagining they were eggs; evidently the maternal instinct of the Emperor penguin is very strong. South with Scott London comes first, and in London the famous rookery of St. Giles which is now, at last, about to be penetrated by a couple of broad streets. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 And, without further ado, he commenced to question Colin closely concerning the place, the boy having equal interest in learning what the rookeries were like when the first investigation was made. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Huge rookeries and tenements, whose every brick exudes filth, teem with miserable folk. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service It was like coming near a rookery at evening, or disturbing a lot of starlings. Old Peter's Russian Tales As a matter of fact, the attempt on the 19th proved abortive, although the little band got close to the rookery. South with Scott In short, the whole rookery furnishes such a hateful and repulsive spectacle as can hardly be equalled in the worst court on the Irk. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 "I think they must be the noisiest things alive," said Colin, putting his fingers in his ears as they rounded the point and the full force of the rookery tumult reached them. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries And Tammany would certainly send its best gunman after a Police Commissioner who didn't dote on rookeries. The Enchanted Canyon He tore down old rookeries, built neat dwellings instead, beneath the windows planted little flower gardens, and rented them to the poor at the same price they had paid for the rookeries. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures All the scenes of little David's childhood in the Norfolk home—the Blunderstone rookery, where there were no rooks—are among the most beautiful pictures of childhood in existence. Life of Charles Dickens Never! though my mortal summers to such length of years should come As the many-wintered crow that leads the clanging rookery home. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation The bachelors, which are young male seals five years old and under, leave the rookery alone. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Lucy, the only chance on earth I'll ever have to clean out the rookeries of New York would be to be a Tammany Police Commissioner. The Enchanted Canyon The number of palaces which are wholly occupied by one family must be infinitesimal; the rest are tenements, anything but model buildings, rookeries. A Wanderer in Venice There were such rookeries as Cow Bay and Murderer's Alley, the latter of which continued to exist, though its sinister glory had long since departed, until fifteen or twenty years ago. Fifth Avenue He went home to the dreary rookery out on Prairie Avenue and laughed at the howling wind. The Deserter It is mutilation or death for a holluschickie to put so much as a flipper on a rookery. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Lucy, it would have been romantic if I could have cleaned out Minetta Lane and other New York rookeries. The Enchanted Canyon In this rookery the young couple had kept themselves apart, and had no friends. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V A cat will not remain in a house with an unburied corpse; and rooks will leave the place until after the funeral, if the rookery be near the house. Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Telegrams, however, were going out and coming in all day; a whole array of cipherers and decipherers lived in different rookeries in London. The Summons Before that, rookery after rookery had been visited and every seal butchered. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries "Though what in the name of time possesses a stunning girl like that to come here and shut herself up in Aunt Selina's old rookery, I can't make out," the landlord, Burns's neighbour, had confessed. Mrs. Red Pepper Davy walked about the island, and found a rookery of small mackerel-gulls and a great quantity of their eggs in the sand. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Infested by every description of vagabond and miscreant, it was, perhaps, a few degrees worse than the rookery near Saint Giles's and the desperate neighbourhood of Saffron Hill in our own time. Jack Sheppard A Romance On the south side of the street stood a number of dingy rookeries, in a half tumble-down condition. A Sketch of the History of Oneonta After a little scrambling, however, he found himself at the bottom of the cliff, and made his way as carefully as he could to the sea-lion rookery. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Silence, silence, till I complate my rural ideas—in some gentleman's rookery at all events; the thrush here, the blackbird there, the corn-craik chanting its varied note in another place, and so on. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Shriek upon shriek tore the peaceful stillness of the night, and in one second the sleeping house was transformed from a place of rest and quiet to the semblance of a disturbed rookery. Leonie of the Jungle You want to clear away rookeries and erect decent dwellings in their place? Side Lights There is the irregular way in which new centres of population are allowed to spring up, so that we go on creating fresh slums as fast as we pull down the old rookeries. Constructive Imperialism In these places they establish rookeries, or villages, as they are sometimes called. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls The wretched old rookery counted for nothing against the possible continued sacrifice of human life, and steps were immediately taken to apply the torch. Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics As I expected, the depraved Whig Journalist, with characteristic mental tortuosity, has asserted that the sounds proceeded from a rookery in the adjoining wood, aided by the braying of the turf-man’s donkey. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 His disbelief in woman rose even to the rookery in the high elms close at hand. Red Pottage In the end, however, the Temple was the gainer by this fire: much better structures took the place of the old rookeries, and the entire precinct was purified. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 When the fathers first reach the beach, and set about making the home ready for their families, they will not allow any of the young bachelor seals to land near the rookeries. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls In the summer of 1879, the building underwent a much-needed course of renovation, and has been still further improved by the destruction of the many "rookeries" formerly surrounding it. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically We had seen several herons on our way, a rather scarce bird, and we were told there was a breeding-place for them at Sharpham, together with a very large rookery. From John O'Groats to Land's End The latter part of May is a time of great tribulation among the rookeries, when the young are just able to leave the nests, and balance themselves on the neighbouring branches. Bracebridge Hall The works at Falcon's Nest were completed, and the two families had taken possession of their aerial dwellings, where they were perched like a pair of rookeries within call of each other. Willis the Pilot At the end of the time, when they leave the rookeries, they are thin and miserable, and covered with battle scars. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls The very saplings, of stunted growth, bore the air of thieves reared in a rookery of crime. At a Winter's Fire Following it along for perhaps thirty yards, we emerge upon a scene of almost indescribable squalor—a scene that instantly suggests an overcrowded "rookery" in the tenement-house slums of New York. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Besides the private quarrels of the rooks, there are other misfortunes to which they are liable, and which often bring distress into the most respectable families of the rookery. Bracebridge Hall After the rookery the path passed a lonely dairy, where the polished brazen vessels in the skilling glittered like gold in the sunshine. The Amateur Poacher The hands of the watch point to the hour, and as though waiting for the word, the whole rookery rises in a black mass and drifts westward across the tree-tops. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Such racket, and cackle of mere hearsay and sincere-cant, grows at last entirely deafening, enough to drive one mad, —like the voice of mere infinite rookeries answering your voice! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Who has your brother's old studio now, and what misguided aspirants practise their scales in the rookeries about Carnegie Hall? Youth and the Bright Medusa The laborers went forth from their rookeries by subway and monorail, and served their shifts in the mills of industry. In the Clutch of the War-God Beside the private quarrels of the rooks, there are other misfortunes to which they are liable, and which often bring distress into the most respectable families of the rookery. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists After we had left the rookery behind us and the noise of the villagers had grown fainter, we stood and listened to the blackbirds and thrushes. Aylwin If one of the bad boys from the "rookeries" does go to school, he soon learns that he may take his own way. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour With rioutous laughter, which sounded harsh, yea, sacrilegious, in the sublime silence of that exceptional town, we were piloted into an abysmal nook sacred to a cluster of rookeries haggard in the extreme. In the Footprints of the Padres It was a common thing for a rookery of several hundred birds to be attacked by the plume-hunters, and in two or three days utterly destroyed. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The latter part of May is the time of great tribulation among the rookeries, when the young are just able to leave their nests, and balance themselves on the neighbouring branches. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists The Chinese quarter in San Francisco consists, for the most part, of a lot of decayed rookeries which would put our own Five Points to the blush. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands There were a number of excellent hiding-places about the old rookery. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights Who would ever want to come away up here to bury themselves from civilization, and in such a silly old rookery as this? The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players All the known rookeries accessible to plume-hunters had been totally destroyed. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation "Family!" replied he, "there be no family in the case, your honour; but here have been sad mischief done in the rookery!" Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists "You don't mean to say you pay anything for that old rookery!" said a slug, who was characteristically insinuating himself between the stems of the celery intended for dinner. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull In the days when little Esther Ansell trudged its unclean pavements, its extremities were within earshot of the blasphemies from some of the vilest quarters and filthiest rookeries in the capital of the civilized world. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People They were inhabited by myriads of frogs, whose noise was more hoarse and stunning than ever proceeded from any rookery in Christendom. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa The task of guarding swamp rookeries from the attacks of money-hungry desperadoes to whom the accursed plumes were worth their weight in gold, is a very chancy proceeding. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation A learned Scotch professor found fault with an ingenious friend and arch-critic for cultivating a rookery on his grounds: the professor declared "he would as soon think of encouraging a froggery." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 480, March 12, 1831 The first person came out of the uptown palace like a fairy from a grotto; the second emerged from the downtown rookery like some prehistoric monster from a cave. The Penalty Page the cities of the West one by one—they are monotonous, ungainly, ugly slums and rookeries set off by an occasional bit of creative architecture. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History Sealers, I am informed, have landed upon it on certain rare occasions of fine weather, and have been repaid for their daring by capturing a few fur-seals from the rookery that there exists. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. There is now one warden in Florida who says that "before they get my rookery they will first have to get me." Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation When other European capitals were mere congeries of rookeries, Dublin, the centre of Irish political life, possessed splendid streets, grandly planned. The Glories of Ireland Then he swung slowly and wearily back into his rookery, and having extinguished the light, sat for a long time in the dark. The Penalty It holds a very few pictures and the best of its stories—those relating to seal-poaching among the Kuriles and the Russian rookeries—are not exactly fit for publication. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) She shall have the larboard stateroom in my cabin until morning, where she and her uncle may live a great deal more comfortably than in one of their out-of-door Neapolitan rookeries. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet I have known the wardens, and have visited rookeries after they had been 'shot-up,' and the evidence all pointed to the everlasting use of the gun. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation If a large bird of prey hovers about a rookery for the purpose of carrying away the young ones, they all unite to drive him away. The Illustrated London Reading Book The village, too, has its rookery, though not quite in the same sense as the city. Hodge and His Masters There was also, formerly, a rookery on some large elm trees in the College Garden behind the Ecclesiastical Court in Doctors' Commons, a curious anecdote concerning which has been recorded. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 In Great Britain rookeries are regular establishments, and the Rooks, notwithstanding the mischief they do, are protected, on account of their services to agriculture. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 To-day, the plume hunters who do not dare to raid the guarded rookeries are trying to study out the lines of flight of the birds, to and from their feeding-grounds, and shoot them in transit. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation They have no objection to the neighbourhood of man, but readily take to a plantation of tall trees, though it be close to a house; and this is commonly called a rookery. The Illustrated London Reading Book These rookeries do not furnish forth burglars and accomplished pickpockets, like those of cities, but they do send out a gang of lazy, scamping fellows and coarse women, who are almost useless. Hodge and His Masters Of the numerous rookeries of which I have any recollection, most of them were a short distance from dwelling houses. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 But on the small rookery they are patchy and there seems ample room for the further extension of the colonies. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I On July 8, 1905, one of them killed an Audubon Association Warden, Guy M. Bradley, whose business it was to enforce the state laws protecting the egret rookeries. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation F. I think a rookery is a sort of town itself. The Illustrated London Reading Book Rooks are building—they fly and feed now in pairs; the rookery is alive with them. Hodge and His Masters The regularity of their manners, their all sitting in exact rows, resembling more the order of a camp than a rookery of noisy birds, delighted me. The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. On passing the rookery it seemed to me we had been wrong in assuming that all the guano is blown away. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I This rookery was started by me in 1896, because I saw at that time that the herons of Louisiana were being rapidly exterminated by plume hunters. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation About eleven o'clock the evening after shooting the young rooks I was returning home from a neighbouring farmhouse when I heard the most lamentable sounds coming from the rookery. A Cotswold Village In rookeries, the rebels are pecked to death and their homes torn in pieces. Essays in Rebellion Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!' David Copperfield I noted many groups of penguins on the snow slopes over-looking the sea far from the rookeries, and one finds it difficult to understand why they meander away to such places. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I My thought was that the way to preserve them would be to start an artificial rookery of them where they could be thoroughly protected. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation We should be sorry to see the old rookery in the garden diminished in the slightest degree. A Cotswold Village The residences, raised high upon their metal columns, resembled huge rookeries, while the uprights themselves presented the appearance of steel tree trunks. A Princess of Mars In the present rookery there were odd things—a step up from the hall to the dining-room, a picturesqueness in the shed and bedraggled lilac bush. Main Street From the penguin rookeries to the west it is a relentless coast with high ice cliffs and occasional bare patches of rock showing through. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I I have heard their tales, and even full accounts of the 'shooting-up' of an egret rookery. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The old rookery is gone, and now they have a comfortably-furnished home. In Darkest England and the Way Out "Come, Sir Knights," spoke Paul of Merely, "we will ride within and learn what manner of churls inhabit this ancient rookery." The Outlaw of Torn Through rookery after rookery of birds, we climbed until we reached the edge of the summit. Good Stories for Holidays Another group of killer whales were idly diving off the penguin rookery; an old one with a very high straight dorsal fin and several youngsters. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Who has your brother's old studio now, and what misguided aspirants practice their scales in the rookeries about Carnegie Hall? The Troll Garden and Selected Stories A rookery, with every nest a little house, would best convey the idea. The Lost World The best were along the Savannah River where some of my people had had a rookery since any of them could remember. The Trail Book The top of the rock was somewhat cone-shaped, and in order to reach the peak and the colonies on the west side we had to make our way through this rookery of the murres. Good Stories for Holidays On the large rookery they occupy an immense acreage, and one imagines have extended as far as shelter can be found. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Their rookeries were near the cave where Elijah was sequestered. The Woman's Bible You may remember that day we found the pterodactyl rookery in the swamp—what? The Lost World "When they have danced the dance of death and vengeance there is nothing can scare Indians," said the Brown Pelican, and the whole rookery agreed with her. The Trail Book If ever you write a novel, Miss Manvers, mind you have a rookery in it. Vivian Grey A number of killer whales rose close to the ship when we were opposite the rookery. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I It took the place of old rookeries, demolished in his absence, one side rising gaunt and high against Mrs. Meeker's. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California The rooks from the rookery behind were swirling about and over the roofs, filling the air with monotonous sound which only emphasized the silence below. Delia Blanchflower Our rookery was in the middle swamp a day inland from Talimeco, safe and secret. The Trail Book The lines on these scrolls were: Wild scenes are to the taste of those who leisure love, And springs and rookeries are their rustic resort. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books There is evidently a fairly extensive bank at the foot of the rookery. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Captain Packett of the Ninth Precinct told me the other day that he'd rather hunt a rattlesnake in a tiger's cage than go open-handed into some of the rookeries around Washington Street. The Under Dog For a full minute after withdrawing the key the adventurer stood at alert attention; but the heavy silence of that sinister old rookery sang in his ears untroubled by any untoward sound…. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama But the Pelicans can always dance a little; anywhere in their rookeries you might see them bowing and balancing. The Trail Book He had purposely steered the Japanese into a more crowded part of the street, and now he edged him into a bye-alley which led to a rookery of narrow bye-streets beyond. The Orange-Yellow Diamond There were several small grounded bergs close to the rookery; going close to these we got repeated soundings varying from 34 down to 12 fathoms. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I When they want to hide, they burrow under one of these rookeries. The Under Dog A flight of rooks came scudding through the sky presently, very much excited, and cawing and screeching as if they had been an ornithological fire brigade hurrying to extinguish the flames of some distant rookery. Henry Dunbar A Novel After some search he unearthed the little man in a downtown rookery, and from him obtained an assignment of his judgment against the city. The Gray Dawn The herons sail about and multiply, the rookery is banished, the reign of tulips now almost o'er, and peonies of many bells are taking their place. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 West of C. Bird there is a very extensive expanse of land, and on it one larger and several small penguin rookeries. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I |
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