night-hawk

“Well, Hereward,” said the officer who came last upon the scene, in a sort of lingua Franca, generally used by the barbarians of the guard, “hast thou caught a night-hawk?”

Count Robert of Paris 2008

A minor sound was the scurr of a distant night-hawk.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Nothing was moving except on the minutest scale, and she remained leaning over, the night-hawk sounding his croud from the bough of an isolated tree on the open hill side.

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

A night-hawk, talons flashing in the moon's rising light, dropped from her nest: she was an arrow irrevocably launched toward her prey.

The Magic of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1987

A night-hawk, talons flashing in the moon's rising light, dropped from her nest: she was an arrow irrevocably launched toward her prey.

The Magic of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1987

But no, a night-hawk swept by him, so close as to make him start, and a stoat met him in the middle of a trodden path across a ploughed field; showing that there were other game depredators besides himself abroad.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

"Help! help!" he cried as he struggled to get free, and a night-hawk that was out in a search of a supper flew down to see what the matter was.

The Story-teller Maud Lindsay

If, on the other hand, aught should befall us ahead, a night-hawk will cry once.

The Maid of the Whispering Hills

"Spell, ye night-hawk!" and her broad bosom heaved with the rage in her, and her body trembled with living anger.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

The whip-poor-will in the adjacent shrubbery seems companionable, and there is a friendly spirit in the short, shrill tremolo of the night-hawk from the invisible sky.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education