corbie
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of corbie
1150–1200; Middle English corbin < Old French < Latin corvīnus corvine
Example Sentences
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"The croup—the croup," screamed one of the gossips; "the innocent is rouping like a corbie."
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
Weel, as he cam’ ower the wast end o’ the Black Hill ae day, he saw first twa, an’ syne fower, an’ syne seeven corbie craws fleein’ round an’ round abune the auld kirkyaird.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
But when the root of the aik decays, And the mistletoe dwines on its withered breast, The grass shall grow on Errol’s hearthstane, And the corbie roup in the falcon’s nest.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
"And yesterday, workin' my stockin', And you wi' the sheep on the hill, A muckle black corbie sat croakin'; I kend it foreboded some ill."
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
They wad spare the bairn, and may think you too likely a lad to hang on the walls like a split corbie on the woodsman’s lodge.’
From A Modern Telemachus by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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