vesper

• At our meetings he was like a vesper-bell chiming above a battle-field. —  The Story of a Pioneer
• Poor little girl; one day to be called a vesper Vole, the next to be forgotten altogether, the next to be remembered after this fashion And so they went on silently together, Flossie in pain because of the little worm gnawing at her heart, he thinking many things, sad and bitter and tender things, of the woman walking by his side. —  The Divine Fire
• How blest to the toiler his hour of release When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace Then here's to the wrinkled old miser, our friend; May he send us his bills to the century's end, And lend us the moments no sorrow alloys, Till he squares his account with the last of "The Boys FOR CLASS MEETING 1875 IT is a pity and a shame--alas! —  The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete
• His song is most noticeable after sundown, when other birds are silent; for which reason he has been aptly called the vesper sparrow. —  Wake-Robin
• The partridge is undoubtedly acquainted with the same process of reasoning; for, like the vesper-bird, she, too, nests in open, unprotected places, avoiding all show of concealment,--coming from the tangled and almost impenetrable parts of the forest to the clean, open woods, where she can command all the approaches and fly with equal ease in any direction Another favorite sparrow, but little noticed, is the wood or bush sparrow, usually called by the ornithologists Spizella pusilla. —  Wake-Robin

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