"Pewit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... part which treasures up their sense is asleep. For one more moment I was uncertain; I wondered if my gun could have gone off in my hands just as I was leaving Edmee. I distinctly remembered firing it at a pewit an hour before, for Edmee had wanted to examine the bird's plumage. Further, when I heard the shot which had hit her, my gun was in my hands, and I had not thrown it down until a few seconds later, so it could not ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
... Schuhu! Tu-whit! Tu-whit! Are the jay, and owl, and pewit All awake and loudly calling? What goes through the bushes yonder? Can it be the Salamander— Belly thick and legs a-sprawling? Roots and fibres, snake-like, crawling, Out from rocky, sandy places, Wheresoe'er we turn our faces, Stretch enormous ...
— Faust • Goethe
... nest. What an ingenious construction it was—long and deep and pointed, woven between the reeds, and so firmly fixed and of such a shape that the eggs could not be shaken out, even by the roughest of winds. Marjory was very anxious that Blanche should see a pewit's nest. There were always a certain number of these birds about the moors, and the girls spent a whole morning searching for a nest. But these birds hide their nests so carefully that they are most difficult to find. After much patience and walking up and down over the same ground, causing ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke
... Point. Kievit, or kiewit, is the bird pewit. Hans Eencluys in the manuscript, according to N.Y. Col. Doc., I. 287. "Contrary to the law of nations, regardless of right or wrong." Brouwerye, brewery, in the printed pamphlet, ...
— Narrative of New Netherland • J. F. Jameson, Editor |
