Though much larger, the Ousel reminds one of the little wren.
The Water Ousel of eastern Washington is nearly as large as the ordinary field robin.
So the ousel flew before them, till she reached the stag of Redynvre; but when they inquired of the stag whether he knew aught of Mabon he shook his head.
And the ousel answered: 'When I first came here I was a young bird, and there was a smith's anvil in this place.
Dear Sir, It gives me satisfaction to find that my account of the ouselmigration pleases you.
Your letter came too late for me to procure a ring-ousel for Mr. Tunstal during their autumnal visit; but I will endeavour to get him one when they call on us again in April.
Dear Sir,--It gives me satisfaction to find that my account of the ousel migration pleases you.
Your approbation with regard to my new discovery of the migration of the ring-ousel gives me satisfaction; and I find you concur with me in suspecting that they are foreign birds which visit us.
Defn: Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C.
If there is an open stream the trout go up the lake as far as the water breeds food for them, but the ousel goes farthest, for pure love of it.
The ousel haunts them, while still hang about their coasts the thin undercut drifts that never quite leave the high altitudes.
Away went the eagle to Cilgwry, and found the ousel standing upon a little rock, and asked him the age of the owl.
The seekers go first to the Ousel of Cilgwri; the Ousel had lived long enough to peck a smith's anvil down to the size of a nut, but he had never heard of Mabon.
The water-ousel he knew well and he seemed to like the sweet singer, which he called "Sussinny.
The water-ousel plucks moss from the riverbank to build its nest, but is does not improve the moss by plucking it.
Down by the reedy bank the water-ousel piped its matin song.
From the reedy banks of the lake, where the water-ousel and the reed-sparrow were chirping their song, there flew up a flock of wild ducks, twittering while on the wing.
A water-ousel with white breast rises and flies on; again disturbed, he makes a circle, and returns to the stream behind.
Under the roots of alders the water-ousel often creeps by day, and the tall heron stalks past at night.
Then the ousel would go far up into this ice cave until the sound of her singing came out wild and sweet, mixed with the water and the tinkle of the ice.
The ousel sat on the edge of the ice rim to finish her song, and it timed with the running of the stream.
Then the water began to purr in sheer content where it went among the stones; it increased and went down the canyon toward the white torrent of the creek that flowed from Togobah, and the next summer a water ousel found it.
Every summer, when the heather and pentstemon and saxifrage on the glacier slip are at their best, the cheerful water comes out of the foot of the nameless peak and the ousel comes up from the white torrent and sits upon the stones.
So it was not often that the ousel and the glacier saw each other between October and June.
But because they had been friends, the ousel could not keep quite away from the place, but came again and again and flew chirruping around the foot of the hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ousel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
