night raven

Historical Examples of night raven

• I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.

  The Ornithology of Shakespeare

  James Edmund Harting

• In some parts both of England and Ireland it is known as the Night-raven, and under that title is held in the greatest fear.

  Bible Animals;

  J. G. Wood

• By 'raven,' the poet probably meant the night-raven, of which he had already spoken in Much Ado, ii.

  The Shakespeare-Expositor: An Aid to the Perfect Understanding of Shakespeare's Plays

  Thomas Keightley

• Benedick observes to himself: I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.

  Folk-lore of Shakespeare

  Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer