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  • noun Plural form of blackbird.

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Examples

  • I hear again blackbirds and thrushes in the hedges, and see again bluebells spilling out from the oak woods and over the velvet turf like a creaming of blue water.

    Chapter 15

  • One of the reasons the flight of the blackbirds is nearly impossible to miss while walking along the shore is due to the sound overhead.

    One for the birds in Ajijic, Mexico

  • I call the blackbirds the "Rock 'n' Roll Band" of the avian kingdom, you'll hear why.

    Archive 2008-04-01

  • I call the blackbirds the "Rock 'n' Roll Band" of the avian kingdom, you'll hear why.

    Sun tanning.....

  • I hear again blackbirds and thrushes in the hedges, and see again bluebells spilling out from the oak woods and over the velvet turf like a creaming of blue water.

    Chapter 15

  • The blackbirds were his, as the sunshine and the breeze were his, for they all belonged to the day which was his birthday and therefore most surely his.

    Penrod

  • The blackbirds were his, as the sunshine and the breeze were his, for they all belonged to the day which was his birthday and therefore most surely his.

    Penrod

  • The blackbirds are the thrushes 'masters, and drive them from any morsel they fancy.

    Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

  • Now the "blackbirds" are spreading their wings into the curatorial realm.

    Blackbird Singing in the City Night

  • Between the poor position of the sun, my crappy binoculars and my inability to ID icterids, I don't know what kind of blackbirds they were.

    Archive 2008-03-01

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