When the autumn comes you will notice another suggestion of the unknown plover in Whitooweek.
Plover have the same habit when they first arrive from Labrador, but I have hunted in vain for any satisfactory explanation of the thing.
In that second, the girl fled, light and swift as a deer, speeding toward the thicket whence the cry of the plover had sounded.
At this moment the whistling cry of a plover sounded from the thicket.
It was a strange place for a plover to lurk in, that rank thicket of jungle; but the Bow-legs took no notice of the incongruity.
Also there were many crow-blackbirds hopping about in the dry fields, and the upland plover were breeding close by the light-house.
The green plover is such a common bird, and so easily found in open ground, that it is a pity, in one sense, that he cannot be flown.
The Norfolk plover may be taken with a falcon or tiercel, generally without great difficulty.
Dave, who was rapidly freeing his decoy-birds and transferring them to the cage, stood up with a fluttering plover in one hand.
But the snipes and plover had gone into a decline, the orioles and ovenbirds had grown thin and unkempt, and the bobolinks and meadow-larks had eaten themselves to death.
We shot a pochard on Tuesday and a plover yesterday.
Presently a white-necked raven, which was sitting on a stump some way down, flew off, shrieking with fear, as the plover pursued it.
On went the plover to a bank a little way ahead, where it pitched on what we thought at that distance was a log of wood.
As I drew near the hut I saw that the flock of spur-winged plover were still standing or running about the margin of the newly-formed pool.
No one saw her save a few quail and nesting plover that whirred up at her approach and tried to lure her and the dogs away from their nests by pretending to be hurt and running a few paces ahead on the ground.
Excellent for quail and prairie chicken, and the plover are plentiful at certain seasons," Dr.
The ploveranswered them from distant, lonely inland pools.
But although I lay awake for hours, I heard nothing except the tinkle of water among the rocks and the plover calling from some hidden marsh.
In vain men search with eager eyes, No nest is found, the Plover flies!
The female Belted Piping Plover is similar to the male, but with the dark colors lighter and less in extent.
Why is it difficult to see the Ringed Plover on the stones of the shore?
The Ringed Ploveris another bird which loves the sandy, pebbly margin of the sea.
Everyone who knows the Ringed Plover loves to watch him.
Where would you look for the eggs of the Ringed Plover and of the Black-headed Gull?
Nature has marked the Ringed Plover on the same plan.
Is there any where in this cursed county a cursed place called Plover Barrows farm?
Moreover, the name of our farm was pure proof; a plover being a wild bird, just the same as a raven is.
Angry at the mishap, St. Mary cursed the plover that they should no longer gather in coveys but should go singly.
The plover nest quite alone and never join others in their flight.
In the beginning the plover used to fly in large coveys.
Just as the first sheep were descending the deep slope of the tank, a Plover rose from amongst the bushes with a shrill cry.
Plover from the bushes, screaming as they rose and flew away; and suddenly the flock of sheep broke and hurried back to the open plain.
The cry of the Plover seemed to arrest the advance of the timid sheep.
General Greely found them nesting in Grinnell Land in July, the males doing most of the incubating as is customary in the plover family, whose females certainly have advanced ideas.
It was the ostrich when the latter still existed in Southern Egypt; then it became the plover, in consequence, probably, of a similarity in sound between the name of the plover and that of the soul.
For the same reason the plover (ba) denoted the Ba or soul.
The plover was the bird usually chosen to represent the Ba, but at times the place of the plover is taken by the hawk, the symbol of Horus and the solar gods.
The hills with the deep mournful music were ringing, The curlew and plover in concert were singing: But the melody died 'mid derision and laughter, As the host of ungodly rushed on to the slaughter.
I never heard the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
He knew why the mother-plover had trailed her wing in the dust, striving to lead the footsteps of the stranger aside from the hidden nest.
She knew that, if necessary, she would deceive again, trailing her wings, fluttering on before, as the golden plover lures the footsteps of the stranger from her nest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plover" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
