Martins
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The robin redbreast till of late had rest, And children sacred held a martin's nest, Till beccaficos sold so devilish dear To one that was, or would have been, a peer.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George
It was something after the order of the purple martin's melodious sputter, only the tones were richer and fuller and the music better defined, as became a genuine oscine.
From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
The rook's nest do rock on the tree-top Where vew foes can stand; The martin's is high, an' is deep In the steep cliff o' zand.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William
They went to live in a "martin's cage," as they called it, under the bluff at Medora, and there Roosevelt visited them, after Joe moved to Montana and his store passed into other hands.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann
"Would you, Frank, give up your mind for a pair of martin's wings?"
From What the Animals Do and Say by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot
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