Thesaurus / woodcock
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I know I shall break down and have a woodcock and some champagne.
AYALA'S ANGELANTHONY TROLLOPE
Here elk and deer are bred, there are abundant hares and rabbits, and also woodcock, grouse and snipe shooting.
AMERICA, VOLUME I (OF 6)JOEL COOK
There was Mrs. Woodcock peeping at him from behind a tussock of grass.
THE BURGESS BIRD BOOK FOR CHILDRENTHORNTON W. BURGESS
If pheasant is not obtainable, prairie chicken is a perfect substitute for it, or woodcock will do in the place of either.
GALA DAY LUNCHEONSCAROLINE BENEDICT BURRELL
The Snipe much resembles the Woodcock, but is smaller, with longer tarsi.
REPTILES AND BIRDSLOUIS FIGUIER
If the bird were rare it would be thought to rival the woodcock; as it is, probably few people ever taste it.
ROUND ABOUT A GREAT ESTATERICHARD JEFFERIES
In 1767 his agents decoyed to his house a young woman named Woodcock, a milliner on Tower Hill.
HAUNTED LONDONWALTER THORNBURY
One of the most remarkable of these is the Short-eared Owl, another the Woodcock.
AMONG THE BIRDS IN NORTHERN SHIRESCHARLES DIXON
A woodcock takes twenty minutes roasting, and a snipe fifteen.
Those who have watched the Woodcock carefully, say that he can move the tip end of the upper part of his bill.
WORDS RELATED TO WOODCOCK
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