One whippoorwill cry from outside would mean that all was well; two that he must hurry to the rendezvous.

Heavens, yes; the long, tender plaint of the whippoorwill.

The fighting had temporarily ceased, and the moon, half-seen through misty clouds, lit up the dreary thickets, in which no sound was heard but the incessant and melancholy cries of the whippoorwills.

It seemed as if the loons and whippoorwills grew wild with sorrow that night, and after a while Mrs. Purcell ceased her lively soliloquy, and as they walked they listened.

The tree-toads soon join them; but one listens in vain for bullfrogs, or katydids, or grasshoppers, or whippoorwills, or crickets: we must wait for them until the delicious June.

The chorus grows louder and deeper, An owl sends a hoot from the hill, The leaves on the elm-trees are rustling A whippoorwill calls by the mill.

There came from the woods the call of the owl and the whippoorwill.

There were many whippoorwills, or rather Brazilian birds related to them; they uttered at intervals through the night a succession of notes suggesting both those of our whippoorwill and those of our big chuck-will's-widow of the Gulf States, but not identical with either.

When the whippoorwill, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

When the whippoorwill.

The Whippoorwill in the hills.

The Whippoorwill in the hills.

A startled whippoorwill flashed into shadowy night from the rail as he laid his hand upon it, and, searching for the seat which Letty's invalid had built for her, he sank down, burying his head in his hands.

It seemed very pleasant, after wandering in the Old World and the New, to be in my own home once more, surrounded by the grand trees I so dearly loved; to see the gorgeous sunsets, the twinkling fireflies; to hear the whippoorwills call their familiar note, while the June bugs and the mosquitoes buzz outside the nets through which they cannot enter.

Thy music still when whippoorwill And oriole are done!

Thy music still when whippoorwill And oriole are done!

I heard the whippoorwill in the thicket, and the drumming of the dew on the porch roof, and far away a sound like ocean stirringthe winds in the pines.

As he strode forward into the depthless sea of darkness a whippoorwill called.

Then three maidens, glistening in cloaks of green pine-needles, slipped into the fire circle, throwing showers of violets and yellow moccasin flowers over the earth, calling out, amid laughter, "Moccasins for whippoorwills!

Suddenly the ghostly call of a whippoorwill broke out from the willows.

The rifleman is here; he is whistling like a whippoorwill.

(The whimper of the whippoorwill again!)

(Once more the ghost-call of the whippoorwill!)

But other voices of the night reached his ears; a whippoorwill and his mate were making much ado over the selection of their nesting-place on the border of the thicket.

Whippoorwills flitted about the woods in cotton picking time chattering about Jack marrying a widow.