428 examples of storks in sentences

If full crops are desired, a good many pigeons and chickens should be kept on the grounds, and that portion of the gardens devoted to leg-uminous products will probably be occupied by storks and giraffes.

The sappy cedars, tall like stately towers, High flying birds do harbour in their bowers; The holy storks that are the travellers, Choose for to dwell and build within the firs; The climbing goats hang on steep mountains' side; The digging conies in the rocks do bide.

Proceeding briskly from this forsaken and dead city, I arrived in the course of about half an hour at a coffee-house on the banks of a small stream, where I partook of some refreshment in the shade of three or four trees, on which several storks were conjugally building their nests.

But what great matter is the death of many oxen, and many sheep, and many nests of swallows or storks being burnt or destroyed?

Bodies of men are destroyed, and the bodies of oxen and sheep; the dwellings of men are burnt, and the nests of storks.

A few houses or clusters of houses stood here and there like reefs amid the billowy green, and the minaretsone of them with a nest of young storks on its very summitrose like the masts of sunken ships.

This last form is handy for storks, which do not pluck fish out of water so much, but scoop up frogs, crabs, and reptiles from the ground.

Clear of the city walls, one sees nothing on every side but huge storks.

I have often seen the kingfishers pounce upon their prey, and I have heard of herons and storks living on fish caught by themselves.

Or on the Raven's Pinions rise: Ye Storks, ye Swans, a moment stay, And waft a Lover on his Way.

The Story Of A Book I. THE WRITER The history of a book must necessarily begin with the history of its author, for surely in these enlightened days neither the youngest nor the oldest of critics can believe that works of art are found under gooseberry-bushes or in the nests of storks.

[Illustration: Storks build nests in Chimneys.]

Where they come from I can't think, and they're like the swallows, or the storks, or the woodcocks, only they're not so welcome.

The mosques and ruins are frequented by a great number of storks, which are very tame, and are regarded by the Moors as a kind of inferior saints.

I had almost forgotten to mention the storks and cranes, which are seen here in great numbers, and so extremely tame, from being perfectly unmolested, that they build their nests and rear their young in the very centre of the towns and villages, and on the tops of the towers of their mosques.

Here are three handsome crested cranes, four Indian spoonbills, together with three storks, three or four cockatoos, whose brilliant plumage outvies the gayest robe of art, and three curassos. 17.

You could now see these lights were carried by dwarfs who had the eyes of owls and the long beaks of storks.

A doll, two children and three storks, by Teresah, pseud.

The story of the storks.

The storks fly home, by Jane Tompkins.

The storks fly home, by Jane Tompkins.

" "Are Storks and Cranes cousins of the Herons?" asked Dodo.

Storks and Ibises belong to this order.

Strong hurricanes blow; large rats multiply and infest the roads and houses and attack persons in their sleep; starlings scream in their cages, storks imitate the hooting of owls and goats the howling of jackals; cows bring forth foals and camels mules; food in the moment of being eaten is filled with worms; fire burns with discoloured flames and at sunset and sunrise the air is traversed by headless and hideous spirits.'

For the Turk, each one of these birds has a gentle meaning, or a benignant virtue: turtle-doves are favorable to lovers, swallows keep away fire from the roofs where they build their nests, storks make yearly pilgrimages to Mecca, halcyons carry the souls of the faithful to Paradise.

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