Example Sentences

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Although the martin's flight is very swift and very high, yet he can go but so far, and he knows not what directs him.

From What the Animals Do and Say by Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot

The lark's name was Vesper, the martin's Vacuum, and Madam Breeze had taken the liberty of nicknaming them "Vesp" and "Vac."

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher

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

The robin-redbreast till of late had rest, And children sacred held a martin’s nest, Till becca-ficos sold so devilish dear To one that was, or would have been a peer.

From An Essay on Man by Morley, Henry

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)