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  • Epizeuxis, _or the vnderlay, otherwise called the Cuckow spell.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • A Robin is building at our back door, the Blackbird sings in the meadow behind, the Nightingale is heard even to the doors, the Cuckow plies his two notes all day, and a colony of frogs their one by twilight. best love to All,

    Letter 276 2009

  • Well, well, but I will give the good man his Cuckow, to make him amends.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Skinner probably found it in his edition of Chaucer's _Cuckow and Nightingale_, ver.

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • Some of the poems which have been attributed to Chaucer and printed in editions of his works, as the _Court of Love_, the _Flower and the Leaf_, the _Cuckow and the

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

  • _Court of Love_, the _Flower and the Leaf_, the _Cuckow and the

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • Nor does it need any strong effort of imagination to conclude that he bathed in “Sandy hole” or “Cuckow ware,” attended the cock - fights in Bedford's Yard and the bull-baiting in Bachelor's Acre, drank mild punch at the

    Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

  • Nor does it need any strong effort of imagination to conclude that he bathed in "Sandy hole" or "Cuckow ware," attended the cock - fights in Bedford's Yard and the bull-baiting in Bachelor's Acre, drank mild punch at the "Christopher," and, no doubt, was occasionally brought back by Jack Cutler, "Pursuivant of Runaways," to make his explanations to Dr. Bland the Head-Master, or Francis Goode the Usher.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • Greensheve, Cuckow, and a young fellow of Lord Foxham's whom Dick had already remarked for his intelligence and spirit, were still, however, both fit to understand and willing to obey.

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Morris had never read The Cuckow and the Nightingale and was waiting for the book to be in print to do so.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows robinmkatz 2010

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