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- noun Plural form of
bronzewing .
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Examples
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Condensed milk and brandy, thin cornflour and chlorodyne, I doctored him with; he was a very obedient patient, whose pangs of hunger were aggravated by watching us feeding daily on bronzewings, wallabies, and galahs.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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Of the bronzewings, which at sundown and before sunrise lined the rocks literally in hundreds, we shot as many as we wanted.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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