halcyon's

At midnight, in calm weather, we found ourselves colliding with an enormous halcyon's nest; it was full seven miles round.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

The little halcyon's azure plume Was never half fo blue.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

The little halcyon's azure plume Was never half fo blue.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

The fleet careen 'd, the v/ind propitious fill'd The fwelling fails, the glittering tranfports wav'd Their pennants gay, and halcyon's azure wing With flight aufpicioas fkimm'd the placid main.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

The little halcyon's azure plume Was never half fo blue.

Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical ... 1774

The little halcyon's azure plume Was never half fo blue.

Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical ... 1774

Indeed all the outside and inside walls of the glorious old church are cased with this marble -- in the interior up to the height of the capitals of the columns; while above that, every part of the vaults and domes is incrusted with a truly Byzantine profusion of gold mosaics -- fit image, as Ruskin beautifully says, of the sea on which, like a halcyon's nest, Venice rests, and of the glowing golden sky that shines above it.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

-- Old ed. "siluerbings."] [Footnote 19: Tell: i.e. count.] [Footnote 20: seld-seen: i.e. seldom-seen.] [Footnote 21: Into what corner peers my halcyon's bill?

The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 1578