killdee
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Below us a stone mill grumbled over its unending task, and from the meadows came the blithe call of the killdee.
From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson
He's pine-blank as happy now as a killdee by a mill-race.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Harris, Joel Chandler
But when I at's him ag'in, to lock legs or kick ankles, dar he's 'way off yander, a-tippin' it on his toes, like a killdee.
From Burl by Heady, Morrison
He ran along before the children as nimbly as a killdee, talking and laughing all the time.
From Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Herford, Oliver
The blackbirds jangle in the tops Of hoary-antlered sycamores; The timorous killdee starts and stops Among the drift-wood on the shores.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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