swannery

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Some pedigree Herefords for his 'home farm' was another commission, and a dozen and a half swans for a swannery.

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  1. A place where swans are bred and reared. Anciently the crown had an extensive swannery attached to the royal palace or manor of Clarendon, in Wiltshire. Yarrell, British Birds.

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  • Some pedigree Herefords for his 'home farm' was another commission, and a dozen and a half swans for a swannery. —  When William Came
  • The swannery, I may say, was my idea; I said once in his hearing that it gave a baronial air to an estate; you see I knew a man who had got a lot of surplus swan stock for sale. —  When William Came
  • The stream that flows down the valley bottom has likewise been arrested by art and forced to form a lake with a swannery; but neither lake nor swannery is entirely convincing. —  True Tilda
  • Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit cras amet Be it harsh as the swannery's clamour that shatters the hush of the lake, Be it dulcet as where Philomela holds darkling the poplar awake 85 So melting her soul into music, you'd vow 'twas her passion, her own, She plaineth--her sister forgot, with the Daulian crime long-agone. —  The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q"
  • The first of these is master of the famous swannery or nursery of swans, the like of which, I believe, is not in Europe. —  From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"
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