Moreover, the lapwing was doomed for ever and ever to fly from tussock to tussock, uttering the plaintive cry of 'Tyvit!
Osric: "This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
Latham had been acquainted with the article "Chouette," in Cotgrave, he would not probably have suggested that Shakespeare meant here the lapwing or pewit.
Shakespeare says: "Far from her nest the lapwing cries away.
Where he that knows will like a lapwing fly, Farre from the nest, and so himself belie.
This bird was as proverbially used for a proud, vain fool as the lapwing for a silly one.
The term occurs in the list of diseases quoted by Thersites in "Troilus and Cressida" (v.
Fortunately we can still class the Lapwing as a common and even abundant bird in suitable districts, and now that its eggs are protected by law in not a few spots we may hope to see a welcome increase.
In two hours afterwards the Lapwing was ready for sea, being confined to the wharf by a single fast, when Mr. Thomas came on board accompanied by Bohun.
As the Lapwing belonged nominally and officially to a Swedish port, it was necessary she should have Swedish officers and in part a Swedish crew.
The wind was fortunately light, and by dint of hard rowing, we soon got near enough to the Lapwing to make signals, and were recognized.
So the lapwing took it, and came unto her, and around her were her forces; and he threw it down into her lap; and when she saw it, she trembled with fear.
Then the lapwing guided them to the water, and it was drawn forth [by the devils]; and they quenched their thirst and performed the ablution and prayed.
The lapwing ran with wondrous speed, and before Selta had time to snap at it a hawk had nipped in before the dog's nose in the attempt to rob her of her prey.
The lapwing escaped unhurt, and flew screaming into the air, but Selta held to the hawk till we ran up and helped her.
The hostility that the Lapwingdisplays towards the Snipe calls for special remark.
The behaviour of the Lapwing scarcely justifies such a conclusion, for all its actions denote a striving towards some end which we can describe, and it seems to gain satisfaction only when the ejection of the intruder has been accomplished.
In vain the lapwing waited, and at last began to make little jumps at the face.
The most striking instance I have met with, bearing on this last point, relates to the action of a spur-winged lapwingobserved on the Pampas.
One of the first birds I saw, and one of the most puzzling, was the lapwing or pewit.
Few bird voices, save the cries of the lapwing and the curlew, were heard.
What seems to be the secret of the lapwingholding its position is the adaptability of its nature to various kinds of localities.
In like manner other writers of the same or an earlier period latinized lapwing by Egrettides (plural), and rendered that again into English as egrets--the tuft of feathers misleading them also.
Allied to the lapwing are several forms that have been placed by ornithologists in the genera Hoplopterus, Chettusia, Lobivanellus, Defilippia.
Then the Crow flew away and the Lapwing went on complaining.
In the case of the spur-winged lapwing the play is commenced by one bird of a pair flying to another pair, and thus making the trio.
The lapwing tripped with short steps among the hillocks, and nodded its head discreetly.
Up in the heather the lapwing flew about flapping her wings.
Lapwing gives Solomon an account of the city of Saba, 284; carries a Letter from him to the queen, ib.
Before I have gone twenty yards a lapwing rises out in the field, rushes towards me through the air, and circles round my head, making as if to dash at me, and uttering shrill cries.
The courtship flight of the lapwing is even, if possible, more interesting.
The lapwing is very intolerant of any trespass on his breeding territory on the part of his neighbours.
And at such times he will even outdo the more lively, though irascible lapwing in the art of aerial somersaults; if somersaults they can be called.
Pinckney once took a lapwing with a very young eyess tiercel; that is, the hawk put him in after a good flight, and he was picked up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lapwing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
