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  • When you sit down on your porch after dark, fifebird and hermit-thrush and wood-thrush will sing to you, and even whippoorwill will cheer you up a little.

    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 39, August 5, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

  • All was silent as the tomb, excepting now and then the scream of a fish-hawk or the singing of a hermit-thrush that had approached the bank of the river after the firing had ceased, and seemed singing the funeral dirge of the red warriors who had already fallen.

    The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca Hervey Keyes

  • This is Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii, the hermit-thrush which I have heard in Quebec County.

    The Waste Land Thomas Stearns 1922

  • She smiled joyously at her father, and her voice seemed brimming with the silver purity of the hermit-thrush.

    Steadfast Falters 1916

  • It was very still, there being only a faint rustling of leaves and the mellow note of a hermit-thrush.

    The Young Forester Zane Grey 1905

  • I dare not say, but I do know that the song of the hermit-thrush is but sounding brass compared with that.

    Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904

  • And from a thick maple on the edge of a clearing a hermit-thrush fluted slowly over and over his cloistral ecstasy.

    Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • The only sounds are the wood-pecker's scream, the song of the hermit-thrush, the thrumming and drumming of bull-frogs in the water.

    Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

  • I dwelt upon the grace of her motions, and the way the colour melted in her cheek, as I would dwell upon the fairest picture; and I listened to her voice because it was sweeter than my violin, or even the note of the hermit-thrush.

    Rosin the Beau Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • Margaret had been in the oak woods several times with Peggy, and thought she might very likely find her there; but no one answered her call; only the trees rustled, and the hermit-thrush called in answer, deep in some thicket far away.

    Three Margarets Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

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