On the seventh day of the seventh moon came the magpies from far and near.
And immediately the magpies flew away to the ends of the earth and the Weaving Maiden could not follow.
Only if the rain falls with thunder and cloud and hail, and the Bright River of Heaven is swollen and swift, the magpies cannot make a bridge for the Weaving Maiden.
The magpies flew together, from far and near, and they spread their wings for a frail bridge across the river, and the Herd Boy went over by the frail bridge.
In the spring of 1471 magpies came and built their nest in a tree just south of my office.
Afterwards I built a summer-house at Chong-pa, and before the house, directly facing south, magpies built a nest in a date tree.
To ask Lubin to explain the connection between magpies and misadventures would have been useless; it evidently sufficed for him that such was the order of Nature, and only a magpie would have been able to clear up the mystery.
But if the hope of deceitful money shall have shone forth, you may believe that ravens turned poets, and magpies poetesses, give vent to strains of Pegaseian nectar.
The flying-fishes scatter; the chattering magpies scream, The topaz hummers dart and dip; their jewelled feathers gleam.
The chattering of Magpies was formerly supposed to foretell the arrival of strangers.
Nor, so far as I know, do any magpies survive in the woods and thickets on the outskirts of the metropolis, except at two spots in the south-west district.
Perhaps the magpies have won their chief distinction as architects.
A curlew called in the distance by the Oolloolloo, and near at hand some magpies began their finished trills and flutings, but stopped short as they seemed on the point of breaking into the mellow ripeness of summer song.
Up came some greedy thieving magpies and stole the booty.
Why, the very magpies would point us out as lovers.
She sat down and wondered if he was a moving picture editor trying to connect blackmagpies and telephones.
You'll find magpies and starlings and piemags and any number of plates of six colors in this splendid volume.
Perhaps there are whitemagpies as well as white crows.
And magpies go by, carefully keeping clear of the precincts, as if they were aware that the Master of the House had a keen eye and a steady hand.
And in a year or two sparrow-hawks and magpies will build in the green tops.
So entirely are these Tree Magpies to be regarded as Indian, that not more than one or two of the five species mentioned by Jerdon are met with in neighbouring countries.
The meek creatures applauded or else cried 'shame' when there was a talk of parents, and the magpies blushed so violently and fidgeted in their seats so much, that they seemed to sit on needles, and everything went along smoothly.
When she started to impart knowledge to various meek creatures of the masculine gender and various magpies of fourteen years, of whom the audience mainly consisted, even I grew warm.
Time budget of male (upper panel) and female (lower panel) yellow-billed magpies throughout the year.
Large gulls also cause a great deal of destruction, but crows and magpies are unimportant as predators in seabird colonies.
At nightfall the magpies assembled, and Shokujo, quivering with delight, crossed the slender bridge and fell into the arms of her lover.
In answer to the behest of the Sun-King, myriads of magpies flocked together, and, outspreading their wings, formed a bridge on which Kingen crossed the River of Heaven.
They had not been waiting more than a few moments before they heard the magpies calling not far off, and presently one, almost at once followed by two others, appeared in the branches of one of the aspens close to the ducks' pen.
Certainly there were no flights of magpies over the tiny Italian garden at the back of the Palazzo Capello to disturb the peace of her mind with joyous or terrible prognostications.
The crows, ravens and magpies started up in terror at the yelling and shouting that sounded around.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magpies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
