night-crow

“I am the dwarf Nectabanus,” said the abortion-seeming male, in a voice corresponding to his figure, and resembling the voice of the night-crow more than any sound which is heard by daylight.

The Talisman 2008

` ` I am the dwarf Nectabanus, '' said the abortion-seeming male, in a voice corresponding to his figure, and resembling that of the night-crow more than any sound which is heard by daylight.

The Talisman 1894

The night-crow crouches on the newly-dug flower-bed to lure its mate.

Married August Strindberg 1880

He listened to the nuptial song of the insects above the lime trees, which rings in our ears like a funeral dirge: he heard the purring call of the night-crow; the ardent mewing of the cat, which sounds as if death, and not life, were wooing; the humming note of the dung-beetle, the fluttering of the large moths, the thin peeping of the bats.

Married August Strindberg 1880

I even brooked to jest with the night-crow, as my own poor lord called this Nan Boleyn.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

I even brooked to jest with the night-crow, as my own poor lord called this Nan Boleyn.

The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The latter nestles also in clefts of rocks, and is known by the name of the night-crow.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The latter nestles also in clefts of rocks, and is known by the name of the night-crow.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Wolsey himself spoke of her under the title of "the night-crow," [189] as the person to whom he owed all which was most cruel in his treatment; as "the enemy that never slept, but studied and continually imagined, both sleeping and waking, his utter destruction." [

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856