night-jar

While they remain silent the coarse whir of the eternal night-jar burst sarcastically from the top of a tree at the nearest corner of the wood.

The Woodlanders 2006

The two trees that had creaked all the winter left off creaking, the whir of the night-jar, however, forming a very satisfactory continuation of uncanny music from that quarter.

The Woodlanders 2006

They stood side by side in the breathless warmth, moths passed their faces, a night-jar churred in the silence, and now and then, from the stables, came the stamp of a sleepless horse.

Swan Song 2004

The night-jar ceased, the sheep were silent; the only sound in the darkness was the bubbling of the stream.

To Let 2004

Seldom, even on the stillest evening, may the presence of the night-jar be detected, except by its coarse call, while the sprightly little sun-bird flits hither and thither, prodigal of its vivid colours and joying with machine-like whirring.

Tropic Days 2003

To work out its destiny the night-jar depends on secret doings and on flight soft as a falling leaf.

Tropic Days 2003

The night-jar shrieks, the fluttering bats repass,

Collected Poems 2003

So Sona brought all the villagers to the jungle and the night-jar and jackal sat side by side on a stone.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

The villagers told them to speak and the night-jar said, "I saw two night-jar's eggs and one egg was sitting on the other; no mother bird was sitting on them, tell me what this means."

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

And at this the two woke up with a start and looked about them, and the night-jar said "I have been asleep and dreamed a dream: will you men please hear it and explain its meaning?"

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas