nightingales

• Here and there a dark face framed in a knotted red handkerchief peered from a lighted doorway, staring after the Gloria until she had slipped over the brow of the hill to coast smoothly down another as steep There, had we but known, the peaceful olive grove through which we passed and hushed the song of nightingales was to be our last glimpse of peace. —  The Car of Destiny
• But Monica did not come again If she had not been given the message, what guarantee had I that she would receive the other far more important It was in a fever of uncertainty that I must spend the next four-and-twenty hours XXXVII DREAMS AND AN AWAKENING That night, in my villa above “the road of the great Moor-killing,” the nightingales were the only serenos_. —  The Car of Destiny
• The swallows, nightingales, and cuckoos were a fortnight after their usual time. —  Honor O'callaghan
• Mrs. Warre, wife of the Rector of Bemerton, George Herbert's Parsonage, told me that the nightingales were abundant in her own garden close to the Avon, but that they did not sing after the beginning of the nesting session which, according to a note to White's "History of Selborne," lasts from the beginning of May to the early part of June. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
• Amidst the dull noise of the insects, the nightingales were answering each other from tree to tree, and everything seemed alive with hidden life, and the sky was bright with such a shower of falling stars, that they might have been taken for white forms wandering among the dark trunks of the trees Why have we come?" —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 (of 8)

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