plover

• Often in the starlit evening, I have returned from some lonely ride by the swift river, or on the plover-haunted barrens, and, entering the camp, have silently approached some glimmering fire, round which the dusky figures moved in the rhythmical barbaric dance the negroes call a —  Army Life in a Black Regiment
• They did as they were told, their movements jerky and awkward in their fright. —  Dangerous Lady
• "Let us see what the plover is about It ran along the back of the reptile, but stopped on the top of its snout, and then with perfect fearlessness actually flew down into its gaping mouth. —  In the Wilds of Africa
• "Let us see what the plover is about." —  In the Wilds of Africa
• The wild mountain tract which stretched on either side of the road presented one bleak and brown surface, unrelieved by any trace of tillage or habitation; an apparently endless succession of fern-clad hills lay on every side; above, the gloomy sky of leaden, lowering aspect, frowned darkly; the sad and wailing cry of the pewet or the plover was the only sound that broke the stillness, and far as the eye could reach, a dreary waste extended. —  Charles O'Malley — Volume 2

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