crows

• Nothing en route to-day except four crows, and a skeleton of a camel. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• The curls of wood smoke showed plainer down the glades, the crows were cawing, the migratory birds going south, but the days were yet mild and still, wrapped in a balm of pale sunshine, a faint, purplish, Indian summer haze. —  The Long Roll
• At one time we shall be using palm-trees for posts and carrying wires through the habitations of parrots and monkeys, at another we shall be laying them down among the sharks and coral groves By the way," said Robin, "is it true that monkeys may prove to be more troublesome to us in these regions than sparrows and crows are at home Of course it is, my boy. —  The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
• "Those who told me about him could only say that a white man dressed like the crows was travelling a short distance in advance of Whitewing, but whether he was one of his party or not, they could not tell. —  The Prairie Chief
• 237 A swan is out of place among crows, a lion among bulls, a horse among asses, and a wise man among fools Burmese. —  Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

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