How To Use Rookery In A Sentence
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The site of their rookery is a stony flat about a hundred yards from the water, and here are collected between five and six thousand -- all that remain on the island.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Some were sent out to steal pieces of iron, brass, copper, and old junk; and these Hag Zogbaum would sell or give to the man who kept the junk-shop in Stanton street, known as the rookery at the corner.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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(Everyone went to 'the private sector' and got their payoffs for their crookery those 8-10 years.)
Romney Camp Bashes Massachusetts In New Ad
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Waxwork depicting Shanghai rookery in late 19th century, Shanghai History Museum, basement of Oriental Pearl Tower.
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This as their visiting fans acclaimed their team with a volley of applause that would have done justice to a rookery of seals.
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My mother and I lived in Rookery cottage, along with our servant . Peggotty.
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Anyone who has camped near a rookery of sooty petrels is aware that they are quite capable of maintaining a sufficiently "babelish confusion" -- the phrase is Camden's -- without any aid from other fowls.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
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It was called a rookery, one of many in London, but this was as foul a rookery as any the city could boast.
Sharpe's Regiment
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Rooks are the harbingers of spring and many people would love to have a rookery nearby, as we have at Penpergwm.
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The Rookery is located close to London's trendy restaurants and bars and the area features a lively atmosphere.
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If a bird misbehaved itself such as claim or take over another bird's nest in the rookery the general body intervened and that bird was sentenced to isolation and had to go and live on a tree apart from the rest.
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However, the people actually had rooks and a rookery.
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Warning bells went off for locals in the 1970s after a deluge of visitors discovered the elephant seal rookery.
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These remote islands in the Bering Sea were the site of the world's largest rookery of this commercially valuable animal, and the Federal government was prompted in its action primarily due to interest in obtaining revenue from the management of the fur resource.
History of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System
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There is a kind of latticed gallery to which ladies are admitted -- a charming little oriental rookery.
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
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And that was before the extent of his crookery became visible to the wider community.
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The picture on the television was of a sunny rock slope emerging from blue waters, with sea lions at rest on the rookery and swimming through the light swells at its edge.
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After watching a tapir feed on the algae covering a lagoon, Paula led us to a giant egret rookery, where the twilight screamed like a million soccer fans.
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Rich fish stocks make it the only avian rookery in North America for sooty terns, masked boobies and frigate birds.
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I called a hackman, for my reading taught me what to do, and I told him to drive me to the Rookery.
The Jucklins A Novel
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When we each get up to our particular bit of crookery and deviousness we don't say, ‘I'm stealing or cheating’ we say ‘I'm beating the system.’
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Perchance, with a dovecot in the centre, and fowls peeking about — with fair elm trees, then, where discoloured chimney-stacks and gables are now — noisy, then, with rooks which have yielded to a different sort of rookery.
Reprinted Pieces
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When Adah learned that Alice and I had actually bought a place at last she fairly wept for joy, and she excitedly produced her creased and worn copy of "The National Architect" and besought us to remodel the old Schmittheimer "rookery" -- that is what she dared to call it -- into a villa!
The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice
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And she still won even with the crookery that went on in Gary which held up the announcement until the middle of the night.
Hillary Picks Up Another Super-Del
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Last March I was standing near a rookery, noting the contention and quarrelling, the downright tyranny, and brigandage which is carried on there.
Nature Near London
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Another feature in connexion with the rookery is the presence of what may be called unattached bulls, which lie around at a little distance from the cows, and well apart, forming a regular ring through which any cow wishing to desert her pup or leave the rookery before the proper time has very little chance of passing, as one of these grips her firmly with his powerful flipper and stays her progress.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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One mile south of the lighthouse is Oregon's only sea-lion rookery home to many California and Steller sea lions.
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The gardens are well maintained and feature raised rookery flowerbeds at the front and a lawned area to the rear overlooking Blessington lake.
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Elect me, and crime, crookery, criminality, venality and bad parking will vanish like crossroads dancing.
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You're virtually guaranteed to see avocets, and you will certainly see herons, since the ancient woodland, with its noisy rookery, has the largest heronry in the UK.
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I certainly see that there is violence, mayhem, crookery and deceit all around me.
Judie Fein: Pledge of Peace
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It turns out that he has a particular fondness for penguins, and has taken it upon himself to create a rookery for them.
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Between nursing intervals, the mother leaves the pup in the crowded rookery as she searches for food in the ocean.
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Rooks are the harbingers of spring and many people would love to have a rookery nearby, as we have at Penpergwm.
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The young take to the water early in the autumn and the rookery is deserted about that time, the last to leave being the old birds who stay behind to moult.
With Shackleton to the Antarctic
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No, to my mind, it's simply crookery.
The Sun
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This is the largest rookery in the world for the critically endangered species and half a million turtles nest here every winter.
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Is this all some sort of bizarre coincidence, like deregulation and financial crookery or religious fundamentalism and bizarre rules on human behavior? mrtoads
Re: House GOP Leadership Elections - Swampland - TIME.com
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Anyone who has camped near a rookery of sooty petrels is aware that they are quite capable of maintaining a sufficiently “babelish confusion” ” the phrase is Camden's ” without any aid from other fowls.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
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The reason for the desertion wasn't difficult to find: a pair of Buzzards had decided that the old rookery was an ideal place for them to nest!
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There was also a rookery in the elm tree at the bottom of the garden but that she kept to herself.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Our adult children now all do their banking on the internet and are happy to take their chances with electronic crookery, but I am of the old school who likes to see the whites of a teller's eyes when making a deposit.
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A third-rate bookmaker or loan shark would be embarrassed to be associated with this sort of crookery.
See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The Guardian summarised these difficulties rather well: ‘Missing [but not kidnapped or murdered] children, jealous spouses, petty crookery, ostrich rustling and beauty contest corruption.’
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Instead of visiting the rookery, we'd stopped at a nearby site where a few dozen nonbreeding (juvenile and nondominant male) sea lions were hauled out.
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Landings offer everything from a couple of hours on the beach studying penguins or you can take a brisk walk, wander over to a rookery, learn more from the experts about the wildlife or terrain or just sit taking it all in.
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Do send me further examples of this quasi-crookery by the agents and landlords.
The Sun
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Crookery became epidemic, and big, big business, only after the violent earthquake of 1980.
Times, Sunday Times
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Few things are so unmusical as the voices of rooks, yet a home with a rookery is a very peaceful place.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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We also expect to see abundant turtles, as the Lacepedes are Western Australia's largest green turtle rookery.
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He picked up a handful of loose snow and tossed it towards the remains of the rookery, where Emma lay happily crunching carrots.
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They have this default expression, like they're expecting to hear any minute that a tanker has gone aground and spilled a half million tons of crude oil into a penguin rookery.
One of Our Whales Is Missing
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He was a pillar of society, something that's unusual in the world of crookery.
Diane Francis: Madoff Just the Start of Post-Bubble Scandals
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One sure way to be completely safe from any type of legal action is for this committee to look into your crookery.
House ethics panel launches formal Massa investigation
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This sensitivity could provide a means to track a dead whale's scent from miles away or find a pinniped rookery or haul-out site from their excrement droppings carried by the oceans currents.
