3398 examples of nesting in sentences

In the months of May and June, the wild sheep bring forth their young in solitary and almost inaccessible crags, far above the nesting-rocks of the eagle.

The blue jay is a near relative of the crow, and, like him, omnivorous, harsh-voiced, predaceous, a robber of birds' nests; so that if you hear the robins during their nesting-time making an unusual clamor about the house, the chances are you will get a glimpse of this brilliant marauder, sneaking away with a troop of them in pursuit.

In his choice of a nesting-place he seems at first sight to show less than his usual caution; for, though the nest is a very conspicuous one, it is generally made in a pine sapling not far from the ground, and often on a path or other opening in the woods.

And so the bo'sun bade him set-to without delay, for that we should do well to deliver the people in the hulk, and afterwards make all haste from the island, which was no better than a nesting place of ghouls.

They, with many other kinds of migrating birds, were busy nesting.

The old leader-goose's days of nesting and rearing of young were over, and during the summer she passed the time going from one goose range to another, giving counsel regarding the brooding and care of the young.

It was certainly Neljä that was nesting there, and the goosey-gander who stood beside her was surely Kolme.

At the time "when Fielding was birds-nesting, and Smollett was unborn," he was laying the foundations of the English novel of real life.

The lesser songsters were already mating and nesting, and he found secret pleasure in their cheery calls and bustling activity.

They had that year chosen the forests in my uncle's neighborhood for their nesting ground, and had been killed by thousands and salted down for winter provision, only the breast being used, owing to the superabundance of the birds.

Then came the hermit thrush, heard only in the depth of the forest, shy and remote in his life and nesting, and the whip-poor-will, in the evening.

But now, of course, all these old keeps were warped and crumbling, and made fine nesting places for the wild birds.

Well I stood and wondered over this, for what could anybody be doing in such a place now that it was too early for the nesting season?

"Won't you come in and see me some time?and, by the way, I am going to talk to some of the village children about the wild things, bird's nesting, and so forth, up at the schoolhouse on Thursday.

It was the end of the nesting season, and we did not find their curious communal nests, in which half a dozen females lay their eggs indiscriminately.

They then fly for endless distances down across the north temperate zone, across the equator, through the lands where the days and nights are always of equal length, into another hemisphere, and spend another summer of long days and long twilights in the far south, where the Antarctic winds cool them, while their nesting home, at the other end of the world, is shrouded beneath the iron desolation of the polar night.

Two of the birds which Cherrie and Miller procured were of extraordinary nesting habits.

A Citizen of North America and many other countries, more common in the interior of the United States than on the Atlantic coast; nesting from the middle districts far northward, wintering in the Southern States and far beyond.

Although nesting on the ground it soars high into the sky for the purpose of leading aviators and balloonists away from its young.

The vague mind of the savage woman never sent her to the spider, the nesting bird, and the burrowing squirrel to learn to weave and to build and to store.

Nobody can blame it for choosing as its nesting-place the little soft furred Siberian marmots, which the Chinese hunt for their skin.

Belonging to the farm is a curious columbarium, constructed of mud, in which the nesting niches are said to number 900.

I lie upon the fragrant heath, Kin to the beating heart beneath; The nesting plover I discover Nor stir the scented screen above her, Yet am I blindI cannot find What turns a maiden to her lover!

A little further on, just beyond Sorö, a village church rears twin towers above the wheat-field where the skylark soars and sings to its nesting mate.

High in the blue soars the lark, singing its song of home and hope to its nesting mate.

3398 examples of  nesting  in sentences