For a long time I did not come upon a single bird; at last a corncrake flew out of a thick clump of young oak across the wormwood springing up round it.
Yet by great patience and watchful skilfulness the corncrake is sometimes caught by hand.
The sharp rattle of the mowing-machine disturbs the corncrake in the meadow.
Now and then a corncrake is caught in the same way by hand while sitting on her nest on the ground.
In the narrowest part of the wood between the hedge and the river a corncrake called his loudest "crake, crake," incessantly.
Few persons there are that do not know the rasping, monotonous double cry of this bird, and yet few people ever see a Corncrake all their lives, and still fewer, perhaps, could describe or identify it.
And yet the Corncrake is not quite such a skulking bird as some would make him.
And out of the silver-grey fog of darkness came sounds vague and hoarse: a corncrake not far off, sound of a train like a sigh, and distant shouts of men.
I do not know what a corncrake is like," replied the maiden with commendable dignity.
The corncrake after awhile stopped quite suddenly with a jerk, and for quite five minutes there was silence.
The return of the corncrake or landrail is quickly recognized by the noise he makes in the grass; he is the noisiest of all the spring-birds.
On the 7th I heard a corncrake in the meadow over Thames, opposite the Promenade, a hundred yards below Messenger's Eyot.
Somewhere in the distance beyond the line a corncrake was calling.
The corncrake uttered its clear note, and far away above a little tumulus, a sleepy kite floated, heavily flapping its wings, and no other living creature could be seen all over the steppe.
An old corncrake lived near to us, and the way he used to disturb all the other birds, and keep them from going to sleep, was shameful.
By this time the whole glade would be awake, expressing views concerning that corncrake that would have wounded a less callous nature.
Look, Frank," he said, "the corncrake was only shamming death!
I dare say that corncrake would like to see him killed.
Every now and then he rubbed an instrument on his thigh, which made a noise so like the cry of the corncrake that one could not have distinguished it.
A restless corncrake cries among the long grass of the next meadow that stands waiting for the scythe.
Somewhere in the grass, that in a few short weeks will fill the house with the sweet incense of the hay, a corncrake is calling.
Save for a cry that echoes shrill From some lone bird disconsolate; A corncrake calling to its mate; The answer from the misty hill.
Corncrake sings from eve to morn, Deep in corn, a strenuous bard!
Peter got very angry with the corncrakeand the frogs.
It is; but to make up for that there is the night-scented stock, and a corncrake in the field.
Gmelin heard it from the Tartars in 1740; each crane they told him took a corncrake on its back.
There are men who know the corncrake well, who believe to-day that the bird must skulk unseen through the winter, for they assert it is quite incapable of lengthy flight.
Three strange birds were eating out of the pot--a cuckoo, a corncrake and a swallow.
He went into the house and found her making marks in the ashes of her fire while her cuckoo, her corncrake and her swallow were picking grains off the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corncrake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
