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• It's a pill that takes an HOUR EVERY DAY to "swallow" -- and you take it with a few glasses of water, not just one sip. —  Halley's Comment
• Imagine a gull being disquieted because some naturalist solemnly averred that a hawk or a swallow was a better master of the art of flight; or a mocking-bird falling into a mood of fierce resentment or nervous depression because some professor of music declared that the hermit thrush had a more spontaneous and inspired song! —  Days Off And Other Digressions
• The back of the house-martin is of a glossy black or bluish-black colour; it is white underneath; while the swallow, which is larger than the other two, has a glossy back, like the house-martin; but underneath it is more or less tinged with buff; and see, as I speak here is one flying past us. —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
• What he would have called the swallow-tails, which Seńora Tassara might have expected as the dinner dress of a more important guest, could hardly be required of a young fellow just escaped from a norther. —  Ahead of the Army
• Therefore it is that to kill a swallow is a sin, and that its nest brings good luck to a house. —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore

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