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There is, however, another, and a much smaller bird, the Dipper, or ousel, which is still more at home in the water than the loon, and that without being web-footed, but it is probably less of a diver.

Rural Hours

(have you him as the 'ousel'?) whom I kept alive, I think, through last hard winter by a saucer of Bread and Milk, has come to look for it again.

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II

There was an empty slot in the car - ousel, as if one of the creatures had been ripped from its place.

Stalling

To him went the eagle and asked him the age of the owl and got for answer: ‘I have a year over my head for every gem on my skin and for every egg in my roe, yet have I always seen the owl look the same; but there is one older than myself, and that is the ousel of Cilgwry.’

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery

Cilgwry, and found the ousel standing upon a little rock, and asked him the age of the owl.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery

So the eagle of Gwernabwy; the stag of Ferny-side Brae; the salmon trout of Glyn Llifon; the ousel of Cilgwry; the toad of Cors

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery

So the ousel flew before them, till she reached the stag of

The Lilac Fairy Book

SO they journeyed until they came to the nest of an ousel, and Gwrhyr spoke to her.

The Lilac Fairy Book

There was an empty slot in the car - ousel, as if one of the creatures had been ripped from its place.

Kendermore

An ousel fluttered across the stream and dabbled in a puddle among some stones.

Uncanny Tales