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thrush
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synonyms: mavise ???
tags: [avian]
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Definition:a very large family of mostly ground-feeding woodland birds
photo: As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.sound file: by Jonathon Jongsma, XC133908. Accessible at https://www.xeno-canto.org/133908Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
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I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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This is the hour when frogs and thrushes
Praise the world from the woods and the rushes.
E. B. White. Charlotte's Web (1952)
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He is as interested as a child in the goldfinches, the carp, and the minnows. Talk to him, for instance, about thrushes, and the queer old fellow will tell you things you could not find in any book. He will tell you them with enthusiasm, with passion, and will scold you too for your ignorance.
Anton Chekhov. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories
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A thrush had alighted on a bough not five metres away,
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Blackadder: No-one can stop me now.
Old Man: No one?
Blackadder: No, no one.. except perhaps... no not even him.
Old Man: And who might that be my lord?
Blackadder: Well there was a man, Philip of Bergundy, known to his enemies as, "The Hawk". We were deadly childhood rivals, although,of course, in those days he was known as "The Thrush",
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Black Seal
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Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush. I might have thought it was all lies together, only as the birds' names come out true, I supposed mine did.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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