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A public outcry eventually forced the nest's restoration, as Ms. Schulman relates in a text rich with detail about the nesting habits of hawks and the political agitations of bird lovers.

Children's Books 2008

I leaned out yesterday - bracing my feet on the counter and the trashcan - and tried to get a picture of the nest's underside ... but the flash freaked them out, so I put the camera away.

Yesterday moriarty6 2006

Within days of the nest's destruction, an increasingly raucous demonstration began outside 927 Fifth.

Postscript 2007

When Flicker pressed for the pigeon spikes to be returned to their original location — a solution that did not address the building's concerns about the possibility of the nest's falling — Cohen resisted.

Ruffled Feathers on Fifth Avenue DiGiacomo, Frank 2005

"Their love nest's upstairs, for Christ's sake, " Sharpe said.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

Old Grendel had marked the nest's water source when it came within her sight and scent.

Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

Perhaps, if he had ventured over the nest's edge, he would have perished on the ground, trampled into dust by the fameward mob, or devoured by the critics that pounce upon every fledgling and suck the heart out of all that cannot fling them off.

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Once a long snake hung from the mother bird's bill; once it was a bird of some kind; twice she brought small animals, whose species I could not make out in the brief moment of alighting on the nest's edge, -- all these besides the regular fare of fish and frogs, of which I took no account.

Wood Folk at School William Joseph Long 1909

Sunken slightly into the ground, the nest's rim was flush with the short grass, while the longer stems rose about it in a green, filmy wall or stockade.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

This was again an instance of contrivance for the nest's protection.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870