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- noun Plural form of
high-hole .
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Examples
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What a gleeful uproar the robins, cedar-birds, high-holes, and cow blackbirds make amid the black cherry trees as we pass along!
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In the cavity of an apple-tree but a few yards off, and much nearer the house than they usually build, a pair of high-holes, or golden-shafted woodpeckers, took up their abode.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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What a gleeful uproar the robins, cedar-birds, high-holes, and cow blackbirds make amid the black cherry-trees as we pass along!
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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A favorite drum of the high-holes about me is a hollow wooden tube, a section of a pump, which stands as a bird-box upon my summer-house.
Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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The call of the high-holes, the whistle of the quail, the strong piercing note of the meadowlark, the drumming of the grouse, -- how these sounds ignore the years, and strike on the ear with the melody of that springtime when the world was young, and life was all holiday and romance!
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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The matchmaking of the high-holes, which often comes under my observation, is in marked contrast to that of the robins and the bluebirds.
Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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What a gleeful uproar the robins, cedar-birds, high-holes, and cow black-birds make amid the black cherry-trees as we pass along.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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In the cavity of an apple-tree, much nearer the house than they usually build, a pair of high-holes took up their abode.
Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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In the wood, young high-holes thrust their heads out of the door and called; blackbird and martin babies flew over with their parents, talking eagerly all the way; barn swallow nestlings crowded up to the window-sill to look out and be fed by passing mothers; and cautious young kingbirds, in black caps, dressed their feathers on the edge of the nest.
Little Brothers of the Air Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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We tarried together a week, as you may remember; you at your toads and lizards, and I at my high-holes and hollow trees: and a good job we made of it between us!
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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