While standing in an open woodland listening to a pair of Cuckoos calling to each other, I saw the male suddenly fly past with a large green worm in his bill.
I tell you what, brother, frequently as I have sat under a hedge in spring or summer time, and heard the cuckoo, I have thought that we chals and cuckoos are alike in many respects, but especially in character.
You would wish to turn thecuckoos into barn-door fowls, wouldn't you?
It is certain that a female has been seen with her breast destitute of feathers, and with young cuckoos following her and clamouring to be fed.
The skylark and woodlark are both occasional night-singers, and it is common to hear cuckoos call in the densest darkness.
The nests in which the eggs of cuckoos are most frequently found are those of the meadow-pipit, hedge-sparrow, and reed-warbler.
When two cuckoos have got into the same nest by mistake, the two baby birds fight, and the weaker one goes out with the other eggs or the small birds.
Perhaps it is our quarrelsome nature when young that made some mother cuckoos lay eggs in alien nests.
He was comparatively shy; most of the cuckoos that passed over the meadow, calling as they flew, were hen birds, and it was seldom that he answered their call.
With the end of July his notes had quite gone; other cuckoos were coming into the district in great numbers, and were allowed to enter the wood unchallenged.
But cuckoos are the wisest birds in all the world.
For some days in the beginning of August the fields and woods showed a large number of cuckoos now quite mute, and then the Vixen prepared to leave the neighbourhood.
I tell you what, brother, frequently as I have sat under a hedge in spring or summer time and heard the cuckoo, I have thought that we chals and cuckoos are alike in many respects, but especially in character.
These latter had been thrown out of their nest by Independent and Presbyterian cuckoos, and now the cuckoos had to go and the original owners of the nests were reinstated.
But the cuckoos did not like it, and the Puritans were very sore afflicted, and liked to meet and grumble and testify, over ale and cyder, in John Barnes’ tavern.
Thus it happens that one or more little cuckoos hatch out before the rest are ready, and it is common to find little ones of several ages in the same nest.
Then the orioles and the thrushes and the cuckoos leave us, and most birds who live on insects.
Our cuckoos build nests, though very poor ones, sometimes hardly more than a platform of sticks.
The cuckoos came so frequently to some grass-land just outside the Chace and sloping down to the brook that I gave the spot the name of the Cuckoo-fields.
The monotonous and yet pleasing cry of the peewits, the sweet titlark singing overhead, and the cuckoos flying round, filled the place with the magic charm of spring.
This stretch of grass was divided into two large fields by a line of decaying posts and rails, and it became a favourite resort of mine in the warm days of spring, because I could almost always see and hear the cuckoos there.
Richmond Park possessed itself, even on that bright day of June, with arrowycuckoos shifting the tree-points of their calls, and the wood doves announcing high summer.
Birds were almost silent, the cuckoos had ceased to sing, but wood-pigeons were cooing.
It does seem curious for there to be cuckoos in America," I said.
If cuckoos are slaty coloured here and have breasts striped like a hawk, that is no reason why in the hot climates, where the sun burns your skin brown, they should not be brightly coloured in scarlet and green.
Your poetry and your platitudes have all combined to attach a most sentimental value to cuckoos and women.
And suddenly, far up, following their own music, twocuckoos flew across, seeking the thorn-trees out on the moor.
How quiet she was--night, with her mystery, bereft of moon, in whose darkness seemed to vibrate still the song of the cuckoosthat had been calling so all day!
The cuckoos by day, and now the owls--how wonderfully they voiced this troubled ecstasy within him!
The cuckoos and a thousand birds were singing; the little streams were very bright.
The cuckoos were still calling when he woke, there was the sound of running water; but the sun had couched behind the tor, the hillside was cool, and some rabbits had come out.
There are also American cuckoos that build their own nest and incubate their own eggs.
They know better in the Channel Islands, for in the second week of April, and not before, there are cuckoos in every bush--hundreds of exhausted travellers pausing for strength to complete the rest of their journey to Britain.
It was Trinity Sunday, full of buttercups and cuckoos and the sun.
For him in that hour the voice of pity and love rose dominant, drowning the other voices, that questioned and wondered and denied, as the cuckoos from every tree questioned and commented on life in their strange, late note.
Several times cuckoos have flown over this house, but just clearing the roof, and descending directly they were over to the copse.
So marked is the interval that once or twice I began to think the copse would be deserted--there were cuckoos crying all round in the fields, but none came near.
A nightingale sang in the bushes within a few yards, and twocuckoos chased each other, calling as they flew across the lane; once one passed just overhead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuckoos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
