rook

• The cat followed behind the rook, and as each bit was buried it was quickly exhumed and swallowed. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
• He was like a rook, in the sly manner in which he made raids on the furniture scattered through the rooms, and carried off the best of everything to enrich his corner of the house. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
• The panther then set up the most unearthly scream I had ever heard leaped from the rook, and seemed to make the forest jar at every scream, until he was far away on the lake shore. —  The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca
• To-day the traveler can see his elevated grave at Tigme[=a]rook, about six miles east of the village of Tigara, at which place his career came to a sudden end through the agency of an arrow driven by the bow of an enemy XX WINTER EVENINGS AND STORIES The inhabitants of the busy world have no end of amusements, besides their newspapers and magazines with which to pass their leisure hours. —  Short Sketches from Oldest America
• "An' there'll be peach an' plum trees in bloom against th' walls, an' th' grass'll be a carpet o' flowers The little fox and the rook were as happy and busy as they were, and the robin and his mate flew backward and forward like tiny streaks of lightning. —  The Secret Garden

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