Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A collective name of sundry sandpipers or other small wading birds found in flocks on beaches.
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Examples
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In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.
2007 August : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2 2007
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In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.
Postcard : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Perceiving a flock of beach-birds that fed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebbles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small sea-fowl, displayed remarkable dexterity in pelting them.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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Along the surface of the sea long lines of pelicans pursue a lumbering flight; graceful terns (sea-swallows) skim the waves; a great blue heron stalks across the hard sand, majestic, solitary and shy of man's approach; and dainty little beach-birds, piping plover in snowy white and drab, glide rapidly past the surf-line.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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The twitter of the Hawaiian girls is like that of the beach-birds in my ears, after that golden-ivory voice!
Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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Perceiving a flock of beach-birds that fed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebbles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small sea-fowl, displayed remarkable dexterity in pelting them.
XV. Hester and Pearl 1917
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The little beach-birds trotted past close to the water's edge, or paused but an instant to swallow their food, keeping time with the elements.
Cape Cod 1865
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In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.
Cape Cod 1865
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On this day she took a breezy run with the beach-birds along the shore; she planted a pretty red weed in her garden; and let out the water-beetles and snails who had passed the night in her palace.
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. Louisa May Alcott 1860
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A solitary stake stuck up, or a sharper sand-hill than usual, is remarkable as a landmark for miles; while for music you hear only the ceaseless sound of the surf, and the dreary peep of the beach-birds.
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