Use of the word rooks in a sentence example

rooks

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Shelley also very truly speaks of the ” legioned rooks " to which he stood listening " mid the mountains Euganean." [Please select]

Crows shun the haunts of men; Rooks court the vicinity of his dwellings. [Please select]

In very dry summer weather, Rooks are put to great shifts in obtaining food. [Please select]

I must not conclude this imperfect sketch without noticing a peculiar habit of Rooks, which is said to portend rain. [Please select]

Efforts are sometimes made, and not always unsuccessfully, to induce Rooks to establish a colony in a new locality. [Please select]

The rooks were busy building in the great elms by the river; the wattles just below the lambing-pens were already turning red. [Please select]

The rooks were cawing among the elms in the Canon's garden. [Please select]

The rooks swayed in the elm tops, or flew up under the scudding clouds of a treacherous sky. [Please select]

The nests are built upon large trees--not always at the tops, as those of rooks, but often in forks within twenty feet of the ground. [Please select]

Probably his nest was there, for herons build upon the loftiest trees they can find, and sometimes in society together like rooks. [Please select]

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