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rook
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tags: [avian]
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Definition:1. a Eurasian bird of the crow family2. a swindler, or to swindle
photo: by Brian Snelson under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.recording: by Mike Stranks, CC0, https://freesound.org/people/mike_stranks/sounds/434847/
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listening with delight to the cawing of the rooks
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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It would be nice to sit here on the bench all her life and watch through the trunks of the birch-trees the evening mist gathering in wreaths in the valley below; the rooks flying home in a black cloud like a veil far, far away above the forest;
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories.
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He laughed, showing startlingly white teeth. The sound disturbed three rooks in the tree overhead, who flapped off, full of hoarse complaint.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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‘David Copperfield all over!’ cried Miss Betsey. ‘David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there’s not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!’
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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A gust of wind blew from its perch a rook, which floated away and settled in the distance, while beneath a paling sky the woods on the horizon assumed a deeper tone of blue, as though they were painted in one of those cameos which you still find decorating the walls of old houses.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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the rooks, as they hovered about the gray tower and swung in the bare high trees of the priory garden,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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he would not lend him money to squander away upon rooks and whores.
Tobias Smollett. The Adventures of Roderick Random (1749)
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