How To Use Nightingale In A Sentence

  • He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
  • When it comes to things as precious as the nightingale's song, you need to watch this lot like a hawk. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nursing gained recognition in the 19 th century with the activities of Florence Nightingale.
  • Proposed changes are understood to include allowing ITV's 6. 30pm bulletin anchors Mark Austin and Mary Nightingale to sit down to read the news. Gravitas versus graphics: ITV News ditches the gimmicks
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  • Invited to hear him, the king declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
  • Without ears to hear, the nightingale would sing in vain.
  • When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. 
  • These pouches are called "vocal sacs," and no doubt aid in intensifying these animals 'croak, which is so powerful that (on account of it and because of the country where they are common) they have been nicknamed "Cambridgeshire Nightingales. The Common Frog
  • When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. 
  • He might have expected Chopin with a beak: lyrical cascades and liquid melodies that give its relative, the blackcap, the name "northern nightingale". Country diary: Paxton Pits, Cambridgeshire
  • There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky. Fats, Nutrition and Health
  • Nightingales have beautiful plumage.
  • The bird is a notorious skulker, tending to show itself only momentarily, and is as difficult to see well as a nightingale.
  • I heard a nightjar, and our nightingale gave us a virtuoso performance but still, no cuckoo.
  • Have you heard a nightingale yet? Times, Sunday Times
  • A sweet spirit of holy song came forth in notes like that of a nightingale and it filled the whole building.
  • A Robin is building at our back door, the Blackbird sings in the meadow behind, the Nightingale is heard even to the doors, the Cuckow plies his two notes all day, and a colony of frogs their one by twilight. best love to All, Letter 276
  • He worried about the future of the golden eagle, the osprey and the nightingale and he condemned the persecution of the bullfinch.
  • The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
  • Florence Nightingale is widely hailed as the founder of today's nursing profession, especially for her exploits in the Crimean War.
  • This little society now past two or three very agreeable hours together, in which the uncle, who was a very great lover of his bottle, had so well plyed his nephew, that this latter, though not drunk, began to be somewhat flustered; and now Mr. Nightingale, taking the old gentleman with him upstairs into the apartment he had lately occupied, unbosomed himself as follows: - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • On 12 th April, 2 hoopoes, 2 wrynecks, a nightingale, 2 citrine wagtails, a black-eared wheatear, 15 redstarts, a whinchat, a robin, a Menetries’ and 23 willow warblers, a spotted flycatcher and 4 scaly-breasted munias were in Mushrif Palace Gardens.
  • In 1839 she came out in society as a debutante, with the Nightingales taking an entire floor of the Carlton Hotel in London's Regent Street to mark the event.
  • Soon a rill of nightingalelike notes rose into the quiet afternoon. AMBERBEACH
  • Trap one of these nightingales beneath a bell jar and time stops.
  • It doesn't take much to get him on to the subject of the nightingales, otters, barn owls and even notoriously shy bitterns now living alongside the humans at Lower Mill.
  • But diet extends to a selection of birds including warblers and even swallows, wheatears and nightingales.
  • sang as sweetly as a nightingale
  • The Nightingale School pupil has to wear a bumbag containing a special drug which is fed into her system everyday to prevent her having an iron overload in her blood.
  • IT has taken just a century and a half but Florence Nightingale's dream is finally being realised at a Yorkshire hospital.
  • The nightingale and woodcock have completely disappeared.
  • The nightingale now opened, and a little humming-bird of most surprising brilliancy hopped forth, and jumping up to the Queen, held out its beak, having a label therein, apparently beseeching her to accept the offering. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
  • The locket itself was oval shaped and intricately carved with the image of a nightingale perched on a vine of Moonflower.
  • There sang the nightingale, whose chant arouses the sleeper, and the merle with his note like the voice of man and the cushat and the ring-dove, whilst the parrot with its eloquent tongue answered the twain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Nightingales appreciate an open tree canopy with plenty of dense undergrowth and thicket below to provide nesting sites and shelter.
  • Reich had the bird breeder's equivalent of a green thumb, and was known among bird hobbyists for training canaries to sing the song of the nightingale.
  • Keats famously used it in "Ode to a Nightingale" in the line "Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. John Lundberg: Harry Potter's Anonymous Poems
  • We therefore call upon all troublesome nurses to quit being callow in our hospitals, carry the cross and emulate Nightingale, the mother of nursing.
  • When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. 
  • Or again, the blowing of a car horn just outside the room in which one is meditating might occasion unpleasant feelings, the song of a nightingale might occasion pleasant ones, or the sound of rain might occasion neither.
  • The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
  • It was the work of Florence Nightingale and her companions in the Crimea that did more than anything else to establish female nursing as a respectable career.
  • As a result of Florence Nightingale's efforts in the Crimean campaign, casevac of wounded and sick personnel had been given increased importance.
  • He worried about the future of the golden eagle, the osprey and the nightingale and he condemned the persecution of the bullfinch.
  • A habitat for a watch of nightingales could be created in Essex.
  • Brumm has studied how nightingales - famed for their melodious song - respond to the hustle and bustle in the German capital city of Berlin.
  • The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. Christina G Rossetti 
  • So they entered and found all manner fruits in view and birds of every kind and hue, such as ringdove, nightingale and curlew; and the turtle and the cushat sang their love lays on the sprays. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The nightingale is universally admitted to be the most enchanting of warblers; and many might be tempted to encage the mellifluous songster, but for the supposed difficulty of procuring proper food for it. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
  • Using this information, Nightingale computed a mortality rate of 1,174 per 10,000 with 1,023 per 10,000 being from zymotic diseases.
  • Set in medieval Japan, Across the Nightingale Floor follows the captivating tale of Takeo, whose village is brutally destroyed by the murderous warlord, Iida Sadamu.
  • The pipes now struck a chord with the sorrowful, organic quality of the nightingale's song.
  • First up, David J. Nightingale's "elfin" shot of his daughter, which was voted one of the most Noteworthy Shots for 2004 on Photo Friday. Picture Envy #19 - Face the Face
  • Trap one of these nightingales beneath a bell jar and time stops.
  • Sultan's temper was sometimes fiery, said foreign officials of the 1960s, but his habit of working long into the night earned him the nickname "bulbul" or "nightingale". Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
  • He might have expected Chopin with a beak: lyrical cascades and liquid melodies that give its relative, the blackcap, the name "northern nightingale". Country diary: Paxton Pits, Cambridgeshire
  • To see the history I was engaged with being protected to maintain the large, inspiriting Nightingale narrative was a sobering, but not baffling, experience.
  • Last week I heard a nightingale for the first time. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" -- The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel. Masters of the Guild
  • Then a nightingale began to give forth its long liquid gurgling; and a corn-crake churred in the young wheat. The Dark Flower
  • With Cranston bouncing along the Nightingale Gallery, the whole house seemed to sing with noise.
  • Even as when the daughter of Pandareus, the nightingale of the greenwood, sings sweet in the first season of the spring, from her place in the thick leafage of the trees, and with many a turn and trill she pours forth her full-voiced music bewailing her child, dear Itylus, whom on a time she slew with the sword unwitting, Itylus the son of Zethus the prince; even as her song, my troubled soul sways to and fro. Book XIX
  • There has never been a shortage of brilliant innovators such as Robert Owen, the founder of the co-operative movement, Florence Nightingale (a great social reformer, as well as a statistician and nurse), Ebenezer Howard (the founder of garden cities) and my own predecessor at the Young Foundation, Michael Young, the founder of dozens of new ventures from Which? to the Open University. Happiness – and how to find it
  • The melody of singing birds ranks as follows: The nightingale first, then the linnet, titlark, sky lark and wood lark. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • When they came to the valley, they found it beautiful exceedingly and passing all degree; and birds on tree sang joyously and the mocking-nightingale trilled out her melody, and the cushat filled with her moan the mansions made by the Deity, — And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky. Fats, Nutrition and Health
  • a red heart on it, pierced by a dagger that was dropping red drops very sentimentally; and it said would she not hasten to take her vast beauty out in the moonlight, to walk with Herman under the quiet trees while the nightingale warbled and the snee, or sidehill mooney, called to its lovemate? Ma Pettengill
  • While failing often to catch the gusto of ancient poetry -- witness his translations from Chaucer -- Wordsworth was full of the spirit -- witness his rifacimento of The Owl and the Nightingale --and, best of all, handed it on to Coleridge. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
  • Soldiers call the medevac flights to Camp Bastion, "Nightingales" or "Nightingale flights. Michael Yon - Online Magazine
  • When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace. 
  • It is not man that has "poetized" the world, it is the world that has made a poet out of man, by infinite processes of evolution, precisely in the same way that it has shaped a rose and filled it with perfume, or shaped a nightingale and filled it with song. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
  • I had promised Nightingale to attend the lecture.
  • Like Darwin, Florence Nightingale could focus ruthlessly on her work because of the invalidism which allowed her to retreat from social life.
  • So begins a rather lubricious song, ostensibly about nightingales. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ford's and Crashaw's rival Nightingales -- why they have been dissertated on by Wordsworth and Coleridge, then by Lamb and Hazlitt, then worked to death by Hunt, who printed them entire and quoted them to pieces again, in every periodical he was ever engaged upon; and yet after all, here 'Philip' -- 'must read' (out of a roll of dropping papers with yellow ink tracings, so old!) something at which 'John' claps his hands and says 'Really -- that these ancients should own so much wit & c.'! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
  • She doesn't remember the very first day the nightingale's song metamorphosed into a crow's croak.
  • Cephissus, where in the starlit night the tettix (4) in the black old olives by the stream made its monotonous music, where great fireflies gleamed, where Philomela the nightingale called, and the tall plane trees whispered softly to the pines. A Victor of Salamis
  • The reader might also raise a skeptical eyebrow when the poet proceeds to describe the singing nightingale as "disburthen [ing]" his "full soul" in an expressive activity analogous to the actions of Coleridge's own proper poet, who similarly "surrender [s] his whole spirit" (48, 29). 'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806
  • There are already an estimated 20000 of them, surpassing native birds such as barn owls, nightingales and kingfishers.
  • When it is a thrush nightingale. Times, Sunday Times
  • With Cranston bouncing along the Nightingale Gallery, the whole house seemed to sing with noise.
  • To borrow Keats's words, humankind ascends on the ‘viewless wings of Poesy’ towards the Godhead (‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 33).
  • A vagabond is a kite lantern nightingale tramp scholar 44 45 Stanford Achievement Test, Ed. 1922 Advanced Examination, Form A, for Grades 4-8
  • There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky. Fats, Nutrition and Health
  • Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence equal to what 66l. 13s. 4d. would purchase in the present simes, and Asinius Celer gave for the surmullet the command of a quantity equal to what 88l. 17s. 9d. 1/3 would purchase. XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
  • The candles were lit in front of a portrait of Florence Nightingale.
  • Nightingale, blackcap, skylark, blackbird, woodlark — those are the songs humans go for. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the spring of 1995 the main Nightingale mine workings were investigated, and on each subsequent trip, workings were examined one by one in a northerly direction.
  • I had promised Nightingale to attend the lecture.
  • Whether the birds represented oracular nightingales, or wrynecks used as love-charms and rain-inducers, is disputable.
  • Nightingales will not sing in a cage. 
  • Nonetheless, when the Emperor lay dying, the nightingale returned to bewitch Death and earn the ruler a reprieve. Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout"
  • NIGHTINGALE: The other -- the other part of that is what I call the caged cougar effect. CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2003
  • It debunks the myth of great Victorian heroes and heroines such as Dr Arnold, Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning.
  • About six or seven leagues from the city itself, the road had changed from hard-packed gravel to black, cracked pavement, a change that had given both Nightingale and her beast relief from the dust, but which gave no kind of cushioning for the feet. The Eagle And The Nightingale
  • And the tomtit and canary have, no doubt, at least private agreement that the utterances of the nightingale are _galimatias_, while the carrion crow thinks the eagle a fool for dwelling so high and flying so much higher. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • The amorous Nightingale first came forward almost beside himself with passion.
  • Nightingales will not sing in a cage. 
  • Griffiths' one-armed alcoholic main character narrates the novel in demotic Scouse - the accent sounds like a hymn sung through a dodgy carburettor or a nightingale racked with emphysema.
  • The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. Christina G Rossetti 
  • The "bulbul" is a "species of the sub-family pycnonoti of the Thrush family, admired in the East for their song as the nightingale is in Europe. Notes
  • Harry Spiker, a bear biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, says Leslie Nightingale of Lonaconing killed the first bear, a 234-pounder she caught in Garrett County just west of Deep Creek Lake on Monday. 27 bears killed at Md. hunt season start
  • Nightingales will not sing in a cage. 
  • Our love of beauty may not be as intense as that of a Keats whom the full - throated melody of a nightingale's song could transport to the land of the fairies.
  • He worried about the future of the golden eagle, the osprey and the nightingale and he condemned the persecution of the bullfinch.
  • Not to be outdone in peevishness, the Emperor said the nightingale couldn't take off because he'd been banished from court forever. Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout"
  • In a bit of incredible but completely appropriate timing, the Fisherman sings ‘Oh, God above, how beautiful it is’ as the nightingale's song is heard.
  • But diet extends to a selection of birds including warblers and even swallows, wheatears and nightingales.
  • As I learned later, Miss Nightingale herself hated all the ‘lady with the lamp’ guff and was much happier ploughing through volumes of public health statistics or firing sharp letters off to cabinet ministers.
  • Nightingales appreciate an open tree canopy with plenty of dense undergrowth and thicket below to provide nesting sites and shelter.
  • Lessons included learning arithmetic, geometry and algebra and prior to Nightingale entered nursing, she spent time tutoring children in these subjects.
  • Let the light of the burning building scare the nightingales and incarnadine the willows.
  • It is the call of the nightingale, and the cuckoo, the hawfinch, tree pipit and the lark. The Guardian World News
  • Most magically, this is the place to hear the first nightingale of spring. Times, Sunday Times
  • The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
  • The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight [FN#47] and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight. Arabian nights. English
  • Moreover, in that garden were birds of all breeds, ring-dove and cushat and nightingale and culver, each singing his several song, and amongst them the lady, swaying gracefully to and fro in her beauty and grace and symmetry and loveliness and ravishing all who saw her. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Two endemic species of passeriforms on the island are Mimus magnirostris (nightingale) and Vireo caribaeus, and other subspecies are Icterus leucopteryx lawrencii, Vireo altiloquus canescens, Coereba flaveola oblita and Dendroica petechia flavida. Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests
  • Problems with staff pay, violence, bed-blocking, hospice care and the threat of closures were discussed during the tour, which included Nightingale House Hospice, Wrexham, Deeside and Prestatyn community hospitals and Llandudno general hospital. Archive 2007-09-01
  • Dry be that tear, my gentlest love," is supposed to have been written at a later period; but it was most probably produced at the time of his courtship, for he wrote but few love verses after his marriage -- like the nightingale (as a French editor of Bonefonius says, in remarking a similar circumstance of that poet) "qui developpe le charme de sa voix tant qu'il vent plaire a sa compagne -- sont-ils unis? il se tait, il n'a plus le besoin de lui plaire. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
  • Nightingale of Ceiriog, the sweet caroller Huw Morus, the enthusiastic partizan of Charles and the Church of England, and the never-tiring lampooner of Oliver and the Independents. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • Oil-covered northern rockhopper penguins on Nightingale island after the freighter MV Oliva ran aground. Tristan da Cunha islanders rescue rockhopper penguins threatened by oil slick
  • Reich had the bird breeder's equivalent of a green thumb, and was known among bird hobbyists for training canaries to sing the song of the nightingale.
  • The Skull and the Nightingale offers a neat twist on a familiar trope. The Times Literary Supplement
  • If you know about Nightingale, what else can I possibly tell you?
  • In her mind she tried to recreate the May-smells of clematis and broom drifting in from the rolling hills, the song of nightingales on the wooded heights, the twinkle of fireflies in the ripening fields.
  • Yet again prolific American composer Libby Larsen has occupied the operatic limelight - this time with a drama focussing on coloratura soprano Jenny Lind, once dubbed ‘The Swedish Nightingale’.
  • The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel. Masters of the Guild
  • The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight47 and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The nightingale's song deserves its fame. Times, Sunday Times
  • Let me introduce you to my friend Nightingale.
  • Many of the poets when they make mention of the nightingale (Philomela) apply to the bird the epithet Daulian. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Listening to the songs of the nightingales and the rustling of the wind through the trees, he delighted in the sounds and smells of nature on that sunny afternoon.
  • The nightingale was singing
  • Brumm and Todt played white noise to nightingales - ardent European songsters - and measured the amplitude, or loudness, of the birds' vocal performance.
  • It is surprising that despite all the pollution, increased lighting and noise, I can still hear the nightingales sing and spot an odd fire fly or two amid the bushes.
  • He calls the nightingale _sirena de'boschi_, gunpowder _l'irreparabil fulmine terreno_, Columbus _il ligure Argonauta_, Galileo _il novello Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • So they entered and found all manner fruits in view and birds of every kind and hue, such as ringdove, nightingale and curlew; and the turtle and the cushat sang their love lays on the sprays. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The bird is a notorious skulker, tending to show itself only momentarily, and is as difficult to see well as a nightingale.
  • The estate is home to a variety of bird life, from breeding common terns, nightingales and tufted ducks to vast numbers of wintering birds, such as wigeon, smew and goosander.
  • Moreover, in that garden were birds of all breeds, ring-dove and cushat and nightingale and culver, each singing his several song, and amongst them the lady, swaying gracefully to and fro in her beauty and grace and symmetry and loveliness and ravishing all who saw her. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Florence Nightingale's pioneering development of military and civilian nursing and of hospital care, made her a legend in her own lifetime.
  • The zither is a melancholy little instrument; in range of expression it is to the harp what the winchat is to the thrush; or to the violin, what that bird is to the nightingale; yet few instruments are so exciting: here and there along these mountain valleys you may hear a Tyrolese maid set her voice to its plaintive thin tones; but when the strings are swept madly there is mad dancing; it catches at the nerves. Vittoria — Volume 5
  • Smith transforms Petrarch's conceit into an expansive metaphor for the Elegiac Sonnets and the way their poet mimics the nightingale's mournful song throughout.
  • In 1851 the famed diva Jenny Lind, known as the Swedish Nightingale, sang at the Academy of Music opera house in Northampton, Mass.
  • It's a hugely romantic spot; you may even hear nightingales sing.
  • The nightingale and woodcock have completely disappeared.
  • You may easily discover this, Theotimus; for if this mystical nightingale sing to please God, she will sing the song which she knows to be most grateful to the Divine Providence, but if she sing for the delight which she herself takes in her melodious song, she will not sing the canticle which is most agreeable to the heavenly goodness, but that which she herself likes best, and from which she expects to draw the most contentment. Treatise on the Love of God
  • Somewhere above meperhaps at the very top of this tower, where the di Caela banner fluttered red and blue and white in the last hour before some steeplejack of a servant clambered up to lower it for the eveninga nightingale began its dark serenade of stars and moons. Virginity
  • Nightingales sang sweetly around them in the trees.
  • Ten steps from the Siberian lanceolated warbler in its tiny field of oats, a vagrant thrush nightingale hops on a garden wall looking like a robin without a red breast. A Year on the Wing
  • With the deer population unchecked, overgrazing leads to fewer nesting sites for threatened birds such as the nightingale. Times, Sunday Times
  • No one can say that the experience of hearing a nightingale in full song is compromised by the fact that you can't see them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leonard captures the essence of the nightingale's song in this piece, with layered beauty, utilizing a couple of unusual instruments in the process.
  • Like many others of her background, Nightingale was wedded to her work.
  • A good many people never learn to sing until the darkling shadows fall. The fabled nightingale carols with his breast against a thorn.
  • It provides a haven for a bird whose song truly rivals the nightingale: the woodlark. Times, Sunday Times
  • And over and around the sound of the waters would be the songs of the birds-starling and lark, crow and wren, jackdaw and robin, bluetit and sparrow, nightingale, thrush-all of them daring each other to come encroach on a territory, shouting out love for a mate or desire for one. The Gates Of Sleep
  • Peacocks and nightingales are aesthetic show-offs.
  • The warm southern winds were full of their warbling -- beccafico, loriot, merle, citronelle, woodlark, nightingale, -- every tree, copse and tuft of grass held a tiny minstrel. Masters of the Guild
  • And , dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale.
  • He discerned turtles, mocking-birds, merles, nightingales, cushats and stone-curlews inside, and marvelled and was moved to much joy and solace.
  • Patients on wards for the elderly will be the first to gain from the changes which will eventually see all Nightingale wards modernised and an end to mixed sex accommodation.
  • Men don't buy the Florence Nightingale garbage they teach in nursing school.
  • With "Fleurs d'exces" Flowers of excess, she has gone further to create unique works that recall the jeweled obsessions of times past, such as the mechanical nightingale of Hans Christian Andersen's children's tale, Faberge eggs, and the fabulous bestiaries of animals real and mythic. Evelyne Politanoff: Victoire de Castellane and Her Fabulous "Fleurs d'exces"
  • Jardine Matheson Group Managing Director Anthony Nightingale ( right ) speaks at the contest.
  • I would choose the nightingale's song to alert pedestrians. Times, Sunday Times

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