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Examples
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“Even the mocking-bird disowneth me and the slave-girls shut the door in my face and favour another.”
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Occasionally, near villages, we have a kind of mocking-bird, imitating the calls of domestic fowls.
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A mocking-bird (Mimus orpheus), called by the inhabitants
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The one is like the early morning in the time of rain, very quiet, and sweet, moist, no? — with the mocking-bird singing, and birds flying about, very fresh.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The “rover bird” so-called, the coroneted crane, the red and blue jays, the mocking-bird, the flycatcher, disappeared among the foliage of the immense trees, and all nature revealed symptoms of some approaching catastrophe.
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But she heard the answer away back in her soul, like a far-off mocking-bird at night.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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He called to mind the peculiarities of the “tui” of the natives, sometimes called the mocking-bird from its incessant chuckle, and sometimes “the parson,” in allusion to the white cravat it wears over its black, cassock-like plumage.
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A mocking-bird (Mimus orpheus), called by the inhabitants
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Even the mocking-bird that had warbled for hours in the old mulberry-tree had sung himself asleep.
The Awakening 2000
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He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.
The Awakening 2000
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