nightingale
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Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023
For decades, the "nightingale of Bollywood" was the country's most in-demand singer, with every top actress wanting her to sing their songs.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2022
Animals have always come and gone, medieval wolves, later Keats’ nightingale, later still a rare wallaby, spotted bounding through the trees in spring 2019.
From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020
The book has the line “for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.”
From The Verge • May 30, 2019
But now here she was crying and warbling like an Italian nightingale!
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
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