THE BROOK I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
I never saw a coot dive; and think it seldom does; water-hens, every one knows, are frequent divers.
I hear the noise of a coot proceeding from the reeds of a pond.
The Coot is found in every country in Europe, in North America, in Asia, and in Africa.
You've coot the ground from under me, neighbour, and I wean't grudge the money any more.
It was not long before the flavor of the coot stew saluted their nostrils.
The best bird for a boy to practise on is a fish-hawk, because they are a large mark, and fly steady, but they are all gone south now; but a coot will do very well.
Thank you, young man, and pless you all the same; for, look you, it was as coot a teed as if you had tone it.
I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
COOT and hern, water fowls that frequent lakes and other still waters.
On dis bartik'ler quesdion he indends to cootit fat.
Und vell for him dat his coot cray horse shtood sottelet shoost outside!
Ja - shop him indo sausage, Und coot him indo ham; Und schwear dey'll serfe all oders Exacdly so - py tam!
Owing to drainage the Coot is less plentiful than it was, although the late Lord Lilford said it had increased much on the river Nene of recent years.
I have seen a femaleCoot and her brood, when disturbed by a party of sportsmen, paddle for a small patch of rushes, and defy a long-continued and minute search conducted by keepers and clever water-dogs.
A creat misfortune," said Duncan; "I think it will pe pest that I go forward to intimate it to the coot lady.
About forty persons were sitting in dead silence upon the circular steps of the altar.
On the pampas, in large marshy lagoons, this Coot is sometimes seen in immense numbers; thousands of birds uniting in one flock, and spreading over the low shores to feed, they look like a great concourse of Rooks.
The want of the white margin to the outer primary and the smaller and pointed head-shield distinguish this Coot from the preceding species.
Durnford received the eggs of this Coot from a correspondent living to the south of Buenos Ayres, where it was said to be "quite common.
Durnford found the Red-fronted Coot common, and breeding in the lagoons north of Buenos Ayres.
Well, she's only got one head, Master Kenneth; and plows on the top are not cootfor a man.
I ton't say my het isna a coot thick het, Maister Ken; but my father is as coot a man as The Mackhai hersel'.
No; let's come to-morrow airly, and have a coot fair try.
My father's a man, and a coot man, and a coot prave man, and never wass an auld woman.
I ton't think she shall think muchcoot o' Lonton, Tavish," said Long Shon rather scornfully.
She's a coot stand, a ferry coot stand," said Tavish.
Oh, all right, then; Long Shon is a coot prave man, but his legs are too short.
She does not often ket a young chentleman like yersel' who lo'es ta coot music, and she'll keep on playing to ye all tay.
Ta coot peoples shall haf teir sleeps a whole hour after tey ought to be at teir works.
Mistress Partan will pe toing a coot teal of tressing him, sometimes.
Mistress Partan is a coot 'oman when she 'll pe coot--fery coot when she 'll be coot.
Tat wass a fery coot sairmon today, Malcolm," he said, as they stepped from the churchyard upon the road.
Ta maad lairt was not fery maad, and if he was maad he was not paad, and it was not to ta plame of him; he wass coot always however.
Will she not pe a coot woman, and a coot letty more to ta bargain?
Many cootmen has to porrow nems of teir neighpours.
It was not a coot choke," he murmured at length, "upon an honest man, and might pe calling herself a chentleman.
If you 'll please, mem, ton't you'll pe too sherp on ta poor man whose wife will not pe ta coot wife.
Miss Horn will pe hafing cootreasons tat Mistress Stewart 'll not can pe your mother.
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Coleridge V THE BROOK I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Professor Ansted includes theCoot in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey.
Lorts are not always in the mind to be coot friends with teath and the toctor.
A coottucking might trive all the flames and darts of luf out of his pody, and restore the poor cirl from the crave, to which the toctor is for sending her like a tog, without giving time for Christian burial!
Rather save your ammunition for the enemies of your king--that would be coot sport indeed!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
