Do you know, when the birds are migrating the landrail does not fly, but runs along the ground?
And at once, as though in answer to his call, a landrail called on the opposite bank.
Knowing how fond Savka was of listening, I told him all I had learned about the landrail from sportsman's books.
From the landrail I passed imperceptibly to the migration of the birds.
And the landrail called, it seemed, in the very place where the fire had been.
And the larks trilled unceasingly, the corncrakes called to one another, and the landrail cried as though someone were really scraping at an old iron rail.
Dispassionately considered, the landrail should be a bird that a man could scarcely miss on the first occasion of his handling a gun; in cold fact, it often survives two barrels apparently untouched.
Both the partridge and landrail run serious risk from scythe and plough while sitting on the nest.
There is, however, at least one authentic case of a landrail actually dying of fright when suddenly seized, and it is a disputed point whether the so-called pretence of death should not rather be regarded as a state of trance.
Perhaps the most curious and interesting habit recorded of the landrail is that of feigning death when suddenly discovered, a method of self-defence which it shares with opossums, spiders, and in fact other animals of almost every class.
Dun Gnat--from inside wing feather of a Landrailand fawn coloured silk--cypher hook.
You are right," he said, "I thought they were landrail bones, but was not sure till I had one in my hand.
You know," he said, "there are a good many landrail bones lying about, and it might be awkward.
The note of this little bird seems to be of a ventriloquial character like that of the landrail or corncrake.
A landrail was answering him from the further side of the field, and was approaching nearer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landrail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
