Sentence Examples

1. As I sit at my window this summer afternoon, hawks are circling about my clearing the tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes athwart my view, or perching restless on the white-pine boughs behind my house, gives a voice to the air a fishhawk dimples the glassy surface of the pond and brings up a fish a mink steals out of the marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore the sedge is bending under the weight of the reed-birds flitting hither and thither and for the last half hour I have heard the rattle of railroad cars, now dying away and then reviving like the beat of a partridge, conveying travellers from Boston to the country.