Example Sentences

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The black crow instead of the pope will caw over me; the bare plain will be my dwelling; the dark blue cloud my roof-tree.

From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

The building rook will caw from the windy tall elm-tree, And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea, And the swallow will come back again with summer o’er the wave.

From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord