Cuevas: Webster's Quotations, Facts and PhrasesIcon Group International, Incorporated, Nov 26, 2008 - 59 pages Use in Literature CuckoosThere was a long silence; the cuckoo called the quarter twice; August dropped to sleep, his curls falling over his face; Dorothea's wheel hummed like a cat.ndash;Louise de la Rameacute;e (Ouida) in Bimbi.Cuckoo was a sturdy child of about six years old: this boy had, I believe, run away from his parents in the Bari during the war, and had come to Morgian our interpreter, when food was scarce among the tribe.ndash;Samuel White Baker in Ismailia.He expressed his determination to run away from his father and to return to us; but as his home was on the west bank of the Nile, we never saw Cuckoo again.ndash;Samuel White Baker in Ismailia.I might every whit as well have asked my way to Swift's Liliputia or Cloud Cuckoo Town, and the Island of Cheese of his precursor, the witty Lucian.ndash;Matilda Betham-Edwards in The Roof of France.Family cares rest lightly on the cuckoos.ndash;Neltje Blanchan in Bird Neighbors.Our two common cuckoos are so nearly alike that they are constantly confused in the popular mind and very often in the writings of ornithologists.ndash;Neltje Blanchan in Bird Neighbors.Our cuckoo is scarcely a 'merry harbinger'; his talents, such as they are, certainly are not musical.ndash;Neltje Blanchan in Bird Neighbors.Hoarse and loud cawed the rooks; and deep, deep as from the innermost core of the lovely woodlands came the mellow note of the cuckoo.ndash;Edward Bulwer-Lytton in What Will He Do With It, book 2.The cuckoo has served me that trick pretty often.ndash;Edward Bulwer-Lytton in Kenelm Chillingly, book 2.In the park beyond a cuckoo was calling.ndash;Frances Hodgson Burnett in The Shuttle. |
