curlew

• I am making a late start in order to give the mules a chance to graze I send you by bearer a young curlew, as a playmate to the wild-goose. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
• When I was a child the Paymaster once got me on the bridge crying my eyes out over the screech of a curlew--that has been me all through life--I must be wondering at the hidden meanings of things. —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
• I am assured now that it is the stone-curlew (_Charadrius oedicnemus_). —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
• The dreary night passed at last, the larks burst into song above her head, and the cry of the curlew was heard on the moors. —  More Tales of the Ridings
• There are vast quantities of prickly pears, and myriads of grasshoppers, which afford food for a species of curlew which is in great numbers in the plain. —  History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

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