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  • Thrushes are busy birds and may rear two or three families in one season.

    Country diary: Northumberland 2011

  • The delightful Pied Wagtails, Blackbirds, Starlings, Thrushes, Greater Spotted Woodpeckers have also paid me a visit.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Thrushes made of pastry and stuffed with nuts and raisins, quinces with spines sticking out so that they looked like sea-urchins.

    Satyricon 2007

  • And no such Copenhague – Marengo was less so fated for a fall since in Glenasmole of Smiling Thrushes Patch Whyte passed

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • May a Flock of Thrushes Disrupt Your Hologram This Yuletide Season yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'May a Flock of Thrushes Disrupt Your Hologram This Yuletide Season'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Pagans get the ultimate credit for the holiday season, Fundamentalist Christians want ownership, some of us don\'t care, art imitates life, and a bunch of infernal birds threaten to subvert America\'s Corporatocracy.'

    May a Flock of Thrushes Disrupt Your Hologram This Yuletide Season 2005

  • Thrushes and finches darted through aspen, oak, and birch, for this warm, hidden pocket was like a forest in England.

    The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004

  • Thrushes and finches darted through aspen, oak, and birch, for this warm, hidden pocket was like a forest in England.

    The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004

  • Thrushes, like swallows, build nests of clay, on high trees, and build them in rows all close together, so that from their continuity the structure resembles a necklace of nests.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Thrushes and larks for Molpe, but rooks can't sing.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Physitians willed him to eat a Thrush, and it being said there was none to be had; because it was then Summer; it was answered they might have them at _Lucullus_'s house who kept both Thrushes and all manner of Fowl, all the year long.

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

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