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  • DEU 14: 15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

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  • This seemed to please both sisters; for had the youngest miss been put there, it might have piqued her, as matters have been formerly, to be placed below me; whereas Miss Darnford giving place to her youngest sister, made it less odd she should to me; especially with that handsome turn of the dear man, as if I was a cuckow, and to be hedged in.

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  • And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind

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  • And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind

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  • The letters are lost; but Mr. Hector recollects his writing ‘that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, “Vitam continet una dies” (one day contains the whole of my life); that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow; and that he did not know whether it was more disagreeable for him to teach, or the boys to learn, the grammar rules.’

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • The letters are lost; but Mr. Hector recollects his writing 'that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, “Vitam continet una dies” (one day contains the whole of my life); that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow; and that he did not know whether it was more disagreeable for him to teach, or the boys to learn, the grammar rules.'

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The blackbirds responded to each other from the hawthorn bushes, or were interrupted by the monotonous cuckow.

    Monmouth: a Tale, Founded on Historic Facts 1790

  • Mr. Hector recollects his writing 'that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, "Vitam continet una dies" (one day contains the whole of my life); that it was unvaried as the note of the cuckow; and that he did not know whether it was more disagreeable for him to teach, or the boys to learn, the grammar rules.'

    Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767

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