whipporwill

But although the Anchoress's cry of the whipporwill is circulating through sympathetic blogs in the Pajamas Media solar system, the more pragmatic conservatives are too cranky to extend a crying towel to Bush just yet.

Shut-in Throws Pity Party: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

I awoke as giddy as a whipporwill toot-a-lootin '!

joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001

The continuous singing of a whipporwill near a house is a sign of death, but if an iron is placed in the fire and allowed to remain there, the bird will fly away.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

The night was still, save for the thin, ghostly croaking of frogs from a nearby marsh; the cicadas had long ceased their shrill notes; the whipporwill was silent, and over the broad cotton fields, from the dense forest beyond, the usual lonely hoot of the owl called not to its mate.

War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

Page 94 cooing to her mate, and the whipporwill sing a welcome to the night, and hunt flowers and bubbly blossoms with the children, and make whistles for

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

The song of the whipporwill is borne on the breeze,

Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889