They soared over the wood, and the rooks flew cawing out of the top branches where they had built their nests.
Only a flight of rooks breaks the even line of the sky; their cawing alone makes at times a weird accompaniment to the chanting of the Litany.
Overhead there was flapping of wings--a flight of rooks cut through the air and there were magpies in their trail.
The same evening the sheep had trailed homeward head to tail, the behaviour of the rooks had been confused, and the horses had moved with timidity and caution.
I do do carting things all the year, and in seed time I shoots the rooks and sparrows, and helps at pig-killing, sir.
There were only the water flowing under the keel, and the blue sky above, with the rooks circling in it, which had the look of friends to her.
There was not a sound, except the cawing of some rooks that built their nests high aloft in the fretted pinnacles of the cathedral.
Scattered rooksswept down the wind and settled in a field.
He sings of nightingales when he hears them, but rooks are far more frequent in his verse; his suns seldom go down in flaming splendour, but drop red into the grey or die invisibly.
Rooks after the plough, the team against the skyline.
The garden, with bees on the flowers and in the overhanging limes, and rooks cawing in the elms.
Pull down the rookery,” and the rooks won’t fly away.
In the grand old trees around, the birds were commencing their morning song of praise, while the heavyrooks were preparing to take their usual flight in search of food.
The church is built on rising ground, and set round by trees in which rooks have built; clamorous and noisy, they fly round and round the old grey tower morning and evening.
The swallows had escaped and the rooks sank back into the green tree-tops.
There is a large grove of tall ash trees in the Culinellan burial-ground, and a colony of rooks nests annually in them.
Mackenzie has caught rooks in the very act of demolishing hens' and partridges' eggs.
After the breeding season all the rooks in the district gather each evening in one large flock, and roost every night from the end of October to the end of March in the fir wood on the River Ewe, a little below Inveran.
There is an artificial island, or crannog, with a grove of trees on it, now nearly destroyed by therooks that nest here.
The partridge is fairly common in Gairloch, but is never very abundant, owing to wet breeding seasons and the number of rooks and domestic cats.
One often hears a story told which seems to show that rooks are able to count as far as five.
And when her two tame rooks alighted at her feet, he said: 'I wonder how you can let them come near you.
The wind blew very coldly, the roosting rooks rose out of the branches, and the carriages rolled into the night; but still a remnant of visitors stood on the steps talking to John.
They listened to the feeble cawing of youngrooks swinging on the branches.
The transparent green of the limes shivered, the young rooks cawed feebly, and the birds flew out of and nestled with amorous wings in the golden meadow.
When rooks fly high, and seem to imitate birds of prey by soaring, swooping, and falling, it is an almost certain sign of coming storms.
Hares follow the tracks day by day, and rooks fly morning and evening along the same valleys.
Those larger tracks by the sheep troughs show that the hungry rooks have been scratching near, and the chatter of magpies comes from the fir-tree tops.
The rooks get off their nests and circle, crying and cawing, until the disturber has vanished; the herons fly silently and straight away.
The English robin stays with us evidently throughout the winter; the rooks have not deserted; and we are visited daily by silver-winged gulls which come all the way from the sea for the food we put out.
A touch of evening chill came into the air; the rooks began to go home, and filmy rose-flushed clouds trailed over the sky at sunset.
The great green pasture-lands, soaked and soddened with rain, rolled their monotonous green turf to the verge of the blown beech-trees, about which the rooks drifted in picturesque confusion.
He was often eating his dinner in peace and quiet, and even amusing himself with watching the Moor Park rooks or the Laracor trout.
In a later fragment, we find him living alone "in great state," the cook coming for his orders for dinner, and the revolutions in the kingdom of the rooks amusing his leisure.
Even the ancestral rooks seemed to participate in the universal merriment, and returned, from their eyries, a hoarse greeting, like a lusty chorus of laughter, to the frolic train.
I know not if this be true of rooks (I know that sparrows will attack owls or canaries, whenever they have a chance), but it is true enough of human beings.
It is said that if a strange rook comes to a rookery the other rooks peck it to death, or at any rate drive it away.
The rooks were calling to each other in the topmost branches of the trees as Major Lawford's carriage drew up at the churchyard gate.
Like an emblem of that path to God of which he spoke on Sundays, the grey road between trim hedges threaded the shadow of the elm-trees where the rooks had long since gone to bed.
A misty radiance clung over the grass as the sun dried the heavy dew; the thrushes hopped and ran and hid themselves, the rooks cawed peacefully in the old elms.
The rooks had ceased their wheeling and their cawing; the five-minutes bell, with its jerky, toneless tolling, alone broke the Sunday hush.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
