corncrake

• Somewhere in the distance beyond the line a corncrake was calling How beautiful it is, Sasha, how beautiful!" —  Love
• Even the watchman, paid to disturb the stillness of night, was silent; even the corncrake--the only wild creature of the feathered tribe that does not shun the proximity of summer visitors--was silent The stillness was broken by Marya Mihalovna herself. —  The Schoolmaster
• Here, too, is a Messagerie boat, the French ensign drooping daintily over her stern, and her steam whistle screeching a warning to some obstinate lighters, crawling with their burden of coal to a grimy collier whose steam-winch is whizzing away like a corncrake of the deep. —  The Firm of Girdlestone
• Presently a hand-bellows foghorn jarred like a corncrake, and there rattled out of the mist a big ship literally above us. —  Traffics and Discoveries
• Guido lay down on his chest this time, with his elbows on the ground, propping his head up, and as he now faced the wheat he could see in between the stalks Lie still," said the Wheat, "the corncrake is not very far off, he has come up here since your papa told the mowers to mow the meadow, and very likely if you stay quiet you will see him. —  The Open Air

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