whippoorwill

• “There are some great Christmas tunes out there – Slade, Wizzard, Mariah Carey – and as the Big Day approaches you would think that the dancefloors might capitulate under the strain of festive revellers and play some of the classics towards the end of the night, but no: whilst every other whippoorwill is forcing Christmas cheer down your throats with shocking immodesty, the dancefloors seem determined to resist its very existence.”

  Scrooge, eat your heart out. « Sven’s guide to…

• “We have not seen that species of goatsucker called the whippoorwill, which is commonly confounded in the United”

  First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6

• “We have not seen either that species of goatsucker or nighthawk called the whippoorwill, which is commonly confounded in the”

  History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.

• “The birds that sing all day have hushed, and the horned owls, the monster frogs, and that strange and ominous fowl (if fowl it be, and not, as some assert, a spirit damned) which we English call the whippoorwill, are yet silent.”

  To Have and to Hold

• “The name Guaquili has a Cherokee sound and may be connected with wa′gulĭ′, "whippoorwill," uwâ′ gi'ĭ, "foam," or gi'lĭ, "dog.”

  Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina

• “We also saw a bird that really was protectively colored; a kind of whippoorwill which even the sharp-eyed naturalists could only make out because it moved its head.”

  V. Up the River of Tapirs

• “Only the whippoorwill responds, so McCadams monologues.”

  The Washington Post: Appleseed Project teaches marksmanship and history, hopes to improve the country

• “On the other hand, I would bet that most, if shown a picture of Mr. Eastwood in his spaghetti western regalia, would be able to whistle the whippoorwill riff from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Mindset Lists' and a Mythical Generation Gap

• “The first chirp comes at 4 a.m. in May after a night of barred owl coyote howl, and yes, the whippoorwill.”

  January « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “So I am returning to Virginia to experience that nourishment I need every day, to be filled by my surroundings -- the green mountain vista, the storms that roll through the valley, the sounds of a whippoorwill on a summer night, the soft earth under my feet on forest trails.”

  Two Paths Converge On the Way to the Sacred

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