moor-hen

And then I heard a splash, a barely audible splash, not much more than a moor-hen startled from its nest.

Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007

At that time young lawyers did not, as they do now, keep the fasts of the Church, the four rogation seasons, and the vigils of festivals; so Granville was not at first aware of the regular recurrence of these Lenten meals, which his wife took care should be made dainty by the addition of teal, moor-hen, and fish-pies, that their amphibious meat or high seasoning might cheat his palate.

A Second Home 2007

At that time young lawyers did not, as they do now, keep the fasts of the Church, the four rogation seasons, and the vigils of festivals; so Granville was not at first aware of the regular recurrence of these Lenten meals, which his wife took care should be made dainty by the addition of teal, moor-hen, and fish-pies, that their amphibious meat or high seasoning might cheat his palate.

A Second Home 2007

"We want to watch the moor-hens, you see, " put in Anne, suddenly seeing a moor-hen on the water.

Five On A Hike Together Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1951

There one swims, jerking up its tail, which is whitish underneath, and nodding its head; the moor-hen is a smaller bird than the coot, though resembling it both in form and habits.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton

The moor-hen with those little, black, fluffy balls which formed her brood scuttling over the water to hide in the reeds, is rarely seen.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

Tyrrel very aptly began to speculate on the virtues of the moor-hen, informing us that it was undoubtedly the highly prized [Greek: ortux] of the early Greeks, but kindly relinquishing his share of it, Kennedy enjoyed the whole of it to himself; for, though I doubted not but that the subject had been classically handled, I obstinately returned to my old opinion relative to the difference between a partridge and a tough old moor-hen.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

The brace of partridges, then, and the moor-hen, I shot on the other side of Dorney Common; the milk for the bread-sauce, came as usual from the old black and white cow.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

The alarm note of a chick will place its companions on the alert; and the harsh "krek" of a young moor-hen, uttered in a peculiar crouching attitude, will often throw others into this attitude, though the maker of the warning sound may be invisible.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

But the moor-hen was so distressed at having broken her oath to the Angel of the Sea that she committed suicide.

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913