See the last edition of Nares, voceCrake and Craker.
Thence their division line ran along the shore of the lake to the Waterhead and down the eastern side, and so along the Crake to Greenodd.
Somehow the Irish corn-crake has a bigger note and is much more in evidence than his English brother.
It is a saying in Ireland that you never see a corn-crake after the meadows are cut.
I think his intention was to crake disbelief of his rival's sincerity, to throw cold water on his burning professions, perhaps even to question the excellence of his intentions.
Thus the Little Crake is an expert swimmer and diver.
What great pomp andcrake then is this they make of antiquity?
Though far more local than the preceding, the Spotted Crake must also be included in our review of northern bird-life.
No; how could she ever be alone now that this sweet, soft, unutterable touch would always be in memory upon her; how could she wish ever again now to be the corn-crake in the summer corn or the gray mouse in the hedge of hawthorn?
The Corn Crake arrives and departs much about the same time as in England, and I have never been able to find that any stay on into the winter, or even as late as November.
The Corn-crake flew up to see what the mowers were doing.
THE CORN-CRAKE AND HIS MATE A Corn-crake had made a nest in the meadow late in the year, and at mowing time his Mate was still sitting on her eggs.
The crake in his voice had become suddenly most pronounced; perhaps that was why the men, who had been so keen for the picnic, accepted this dictum without a word, but I thought the fact rather curious.
He spoke my name with all the crake gone from his voice, and again it was as if I heard the music of an old song I had known all my life.
Buffon, however, takes it with the land-rail; Gould and Yarrell put it between the littlecrake and water-hen.
In 1876 Durnford obtained a specimen of this Crake from the river-scrub near Belgrano in the province of Buenos Ayres, and described and figured it in 'The Ibis' under the MS.
This Crake is an inhabitant of Southern Brazil and Paraguay, but also occurs in the Northern Provinces of the Argentine Republic, where it was met with by Dr.
The type specimen of this little Crake was obtained during the voyage of the 'Beagle,' on board the ship, when in the Rio Plata.
You have never seen the corn-crake in fields or meadows, but you believe that it is there.
The corn-crake was silent now--there was not even that interruption; and when the bell in the church tower began to toll, it was so soft and faint and distant that she thought it most likely he would not even hear it.
Crake answers crakefrom the meadows as they have done through the night.
Two sounds are and have been heard all night--the ceaseless call of thecrake and the not less ceaseless song of the sedge-bird.
This crake is apparently a straggler to western Micronesia from the Philippine area.
At other times, too, it will pretend to be dead when you take it up, as the corn-crake will, but as soon as it sees a chance of escape it is off.
And all of a sudden the solitary corn-crake cries from the wheat.
Therefore crake no longer here, Lest I take you on the ear, And make your head to ache!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
