Peewits or lapwings not only pack in the winter, but may almost be said to pass the nesting time together.
Solitary peewits will do the same thing; you would imagine they were going off at a great pace, instead of which back they come in a minute or two.
The peewits had nests year after year in this place, and even when the nesting time was over a few might often be seen.
In August 1897, there was an extraordinary concourse of peewits on the bank of the river just opposite.
Frequently during the rest of the month, peewits gathered at the same place, but not in the same numbers, and one day in December, 1898, I noticed that there was something of the same kind on a small scale going on.
I have seen even bagged peewits make such a complete fool of a falcon that she was ashamed of herself.
When I saw him some time after he had made this experiment, he assured me that to kill peewits with trained hawks was impossible.
Once more Hugo's waking eyes beheld two peewits spitted over the coals and a meal cake baking in the embers.
Only from the upper air the larks were singing, and the melancholy peewits cried ever over the lower moorlands.
Nothing vexed the still air on the green hillside save the flapping peewits and the faint morning winds.
He said he would be well if it wasn't for the bleating of the sheep, and the crying of the peewits and the shouting of the damned villagers.
She lay so still that the peewits had stopped their cry.
There was nothing in this grey, lonely world but the peewits swinging and crying, and George swinging silently at his work.
Rising and falling and circling round and round, the slow-waving peewits cry and complain, and lift their broad wings in sorrow.
On Wood Top Field the peewits go Mewing and wheeling ever so; And like the shaking of a timbrel Cackles the laughter of the whimbrel.
On Wood Top, nights, I've shaked to hark The peewits wambling in the dark Lest in the dark the old man might Creep up to me to beg a light.
So past, and past the stone-heap white That dewberry trailers hid from sight, And down the field so full of springs, Where mewing peewits clap their wings, And past the trap made for the mill Into the field below the hill.
All the while the peewits were screaming in the field.
They did not often reach again the height of that once when the peewitshad called.
When they saw this, the peewits held a council on the hill, and they sent a messenger to Kapchack with the news.
The squirrel was waiting for him on a bough of the oak, and while Bevis picked the fruit that had ripened since yesterday, told him the news the peewits had brought about the great rebel Choo Hoo.
The captain of the wood-pigeons has no idea how many of us are watching his proceedings, for I have kept my peewits behind the cover of the hill so that he could not count them, and he has allowed half of the wood-pigeons to go home.
Kapchack sent an out-post of peewits over the hills to watch Choo Hoo's movements, and to let him know directly if he began to gather his army together.
So saying he flew up, and all the peewits followed him in the expectation of an easy conquest.
By a little path that ran along the steep bank, between the bare roots, he went down to the water, disturbed the peewits there and frightened two ducks.
Sometimes I play it by myself, but I like it better when there are some other peewits to play it with me.
Fowls, you know, are accustomed to it, but we peewits have finer feelings.
Peewits are believed to be departed spirits who still haunt the earth in consequence of something that troubles them.
Now, here, the general body of the starlings remained feeding when the peewitswent up.
Either this is a very original method of washing, on the part of peewits in general, or this particular peewit is a very original bird.
They think them “good form,” I fancy; but thepeewits do not patronise.
There are no peewits near, nor, though the wide waste around is their very own, have they been seen there for months.
Here it seems very different; and now again a compact little flock of peewits is flying backwards and forwards over the river with a hooded crow--not the same bird but another--right amongst them.
I have, however, often seen peewits sport and wanton in the air in threes, but I admit that more evidence in this direction is wanted.
Now the peewitsagain go down, and the crow straightway flies into another tree.
This continues for some little time, till the peewits go down on the margin, and the crow then flies into a tree hard by.
When peewits seem thus to battle together with their wings, in the air, it may well be that they are really fighting, in which case we may perhaps assume that they are two males, and not male and female.
Three peewits flying together in the same way as before--that is to say two, which may be paired birds, are close together, whilst there is commonly a short space between them and the third one.
After a little interval the peewits fly off again, and almost directly the crow is with them, and again they fly backwards and forwards over the water, for some time, as before.
And again I note--and this time it is still more marked and unmistakable--that the crow is flying amongst the peewits exactly as they fly.
I have seen peewitsfighting on the ground, and once they were for a moment in the air together at a foot or two above it, and the one a little above the other.
Shortly afterwards, a moor-hen, feeding on the grass, is hustled by one of the peewits into the water.
So now, as he thought of Hazel's lissom waist, her large eyes, rather scared, her slender wrists he cursed until the peewits arose mewing all about him.
Silver-crested peewits circled and cried with their melancholy cadences, and a tawny pheasant led out her young.
The Peewits camped on the other side of the Lake, which gave them the illusion they had hiked an enormous distance.
The snow fell sparsely out of the blue, and the sun was bright; but overhead the peewits wheeled in narrowing circles, and prophecy of storm was in their cries.
She was full of feints as the peewits that had lately tried to decoy her from their nests.
Life was to be an uphill fight henceforth for Shameless Wayne; but here by the kirk-stone, with the peewitsshrilling overhead and the low wind whistling in the heather, he was facing the hardest fight of all.
The peewits wheeled everlastingly in dropping circles, showing white breasts to the sunlight at every backward turn.
The peewits screamed about her, and the empty basket was still swinging on her arm; and now and then from very habit, she cast a glance about her in search of the eggs which she had promised to bring back to Wildwater.
I've done more than rob the peewitsthis morning, grandfather," she went on, with a glance at Red Ratcliffe.
From the natural history point of view he was perfectly correct, as peewits generally frequent wild and uncultivated places where the ploughman and the labourer are rarely seen.
Peewits are certainly bold birds when their young ones are in danger.
As soon as he is perceived, however, the peewits all combine in chasing him away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peewits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
