killdee
Americannoun
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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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
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 Oliver Herford
He's pine-blank as happy now as a killdee by a mill-race.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris
Killdee, killdee, he calls with his high voice when alarmed—and he is usually beset by fears, real or imaginary—but when at peace, his voice is sweet and low.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan
Oh, dim and wan came in the dawn, And gloomy closed the day; The killdee whistled among the weeds, The heron flapped in the river reeds, And the snipe piped far away.
From Shapes and Shadows by Madison J. Cawein
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