24 examples of choughs in sentences

as a blighted spot, and went to drink at the Three Choughs at Ringstave.

And that was let again, and men left the Choughs at Ringstave and came back to their old haunt, and any shipwrecked or travel-worn sailor found board and welcome within its doors.

Overright the Chough and Crow; on 'em, I'm afeard.

"Off the Chough and Crow, I thought, sir.

Half a mile out at sea, the rough backs of the Chough and Crow loomed black and sulky in the foam.

I did want to know, and I found out that they were Alpine choughs and I still want to know when I see the inhabitants of the mountains or their tracks.

The choughs are persistent followers of a Ski-ing party, flying over one's head and chirruping for lunch.

These "packed lunches" are usually so plentiful that the choughs and the ravens get a goodly feed.

There was a certain inn, called the Choughs, where the St. Ambrose men were in the habit of calling for ale on their way back from the river; and it had become the correct thing for Ambrosians to make much of Miss Patty, the landlady's niece.

Tom had gone into Hardy's rooms according to his custom, after hall; and Hardy at once opened fire concerning the Choughs.

"Why am I not to go to the Choughs?

Tom went more and more to the Choughs, and Patty noticed a change in the youtha change that half-fascinated and half-repelled her.

Drysdale, with whom Tom had been on good terms, noted the difference, and advised him "to cut the Choughs business.

All the same, Tom could not follow Drysdale's advice at once and break off his visits to the Choughs altogether.

His visits to the Choughs became shorter; he never stayed behind now after the other men, and avoided interviews with Patty alone as diligently as he had sought them before.

Before the end of that summer term Tom had it made up with Hardy, and it was Hardy who, at Tom's request, called in at the Choughs, just to see how things were going on.

By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.

The Choughs Inn at the west end of the town, not far from the church, is another fine example of late medieval architecture.

His gracious edict the same franchise yields To all the wild increase of woods and fields, And who in rocks aloof, and who in steeples builds: 1250 To Crows the like impartial grace affords, And Choughs and Daws, and such republic birds: Secured with ample privilege to feed, Each has his district, and his bounds decreed; Combined in common interest with his own, But not to pass the Pigeon's Rubicon.

Oft did the blasted oaks our fate unfold, And boding choughs from hollow trees foretold.

It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood, Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs, that understand relations, have By magpies, and by choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.

Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs properCrest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure.

The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles.

The main street contains some notable examples of domestic architecture(1) gabled hostelry, "The Choughs" (opposite street leading to church), (2) fine old house opposite Town Hall, date about 1580, supposed to have been the court house of the manor (containing an exceptionally fine room, with two mullioned windows of 20 lights, and a moulded plaster ceiling), (3) grammar school, at foot of the town opposite a fountain.

24 examples of  choughs  in sentences