Some four miles from Limerick is a place called "Woodcock Hill," where the rifle ranges, for the instruction in musketry of the troops quartered there, were situated.
I never had anywhere in the world a better day's woodcock shooting than the O'Grady family gave me in County Clare.
Equally good with the woodcock shooting in Clare was the wild-duck shooting in the quaking bogs of County Limerick, and away in the loughs, westwards, towards the mouth of the Shannon.
The woodcock was sitting with its back to her, a little brown bunch of feathers.
He answered in the most matter-of-fact way, with the gentle courtesy of the west coast, that there would not be many woodcock in yet, and would he try to catch one for Miss Fiona?
I came out to catch a woodcock to talk to it," said Fiona, "and we can't catch one.
You never saw a woodcock Our size before, did you?
The woodcock had squeezed himself right into the roots of a frost-covered clump of heather, and even when the heather was parted nothing showed but his little orange tail, with its white and black points.
So Fiona explained to them that she wanted to catch a woodcock and ask him a question, and she hoped they would help her.
The King of the Woodcock will let you in, and any of his people can tell you where to find him.
With his long bill the woodcock tweaked the point feather out of one of his wings and gave it to her.
The shepherd knelt down and brought his two great hands slowly to either side of the tuft of heather; then he closed them with a snap, and drew out the largest woodcock Fiona had ever seen.
And they started off for the fairy ring, the woodcock pattering along on his little feet at a pace which would have surprised anyone who had never seen a woodcock do it.
There are wild flowers up there every spring, and until quite recently so few people visited this spot for days at a time that there were sometimes woodcock and perhaps other game in the thickly wooded ravine by the railroad.
Intent-browed young business men with newspapers under their arms; governesses out with their charges; bevies of fluffy girls with woodcock eyes, especially on matinee day with programmes in their hands, talking gushingly.
It is hardly necessary to observe that in dressing a Woodcock for the spit the entrails are not drawn, but are allowed to drop upon slices of toasted bread, and are relished as a delicious kind of sauce.
One of the most striking of the coloured plates in this volume is that of a woodcock carrying one of its nestlings to a distant feeding place.
Why does the woodcock invariably drop after a charge of shot, even though not a pellet has touched it, while a snipe pursues its way?
The woodcock has a "love-flight" but of a quite different character, known by sportsmen as "roding.
This turning movement is well shown, again, in the very realistic coloured picture of the woodcock turning in mid-air, and bearing too the burden of one of its nestlings.
Root showed us a picture of a woodcock in a book, and if that didn't convince us, the fact that a small boy came in town and sold three dozen, did.
There never has been a year when woodcock were so plenty at places we didn't visit.
This is, kind reader, purely a woodcock story, and more or less must be said about the dollar bird.
Finally we got on the woodcock ground and went to work.
Woodcock sell higher in the market than any other bird.
We are glad because it learned us one thing, and that is, if we ever want a woodcock real bad, it will be cheaper, easier, and better to buy it.
While the woodcock bores in the ground for snakes and other feed that makes him fat and worth a dollar in New York, the mosquito stands on the ramparts and talks to the boys.
Right here we wish to state that we shouldn't have gone after the woodcockat all, only everybody said it was such fun.
Illustration: "Then, in a flash, a monstrous woodcock swept down from above and seized the snake in its beak.
You must indeed have been that Master Woodcock which bit the snake to death; for which I thank you with all my heart.
Then, in a flash, a monstrous woodcock swept down from above, seized the snake in its beak, and bore it aloft in the air.
Spread sippets of toast with butter and then with anchovy paste, and turn thewoodcock upon them.
A friend of mine, who then resided in South Wales, had a team of spaniels, which he used for woodcock shooting.
Grit and red rocks are on the west side of Greenwood Lake, and grit of various colors extends from Round Hill to Woodcock Mountain, and is also found in the southwest base of the Schunnemunk range and in Pine Hill.
Yonder Thorny Woodcock (Murex tenuispina) is a still more striking shell than either, and one whose periodic growths are peculiarly well marked.
The Woodcock has never known a moment in which its thorns were less numerous than they are now.
In the house, by beginning with insects and ants' eggs, the woodcock may be accustomed by degrees to the universal paste.
Twenty years ago I saw, in an aviary at Carlsruhe, a tame woodcock that would come from his cage and show himself to strangers; it was a male, and appeared very willing to pair, if it could have found a mate.
The woodcock is found in every part of Europe where there are forests.
Woodcock plows were first used in 1847, in Maryland.
The Woodcock plow has separate landside, moldboard, share, cutter, and point.
And then, in spring, to the Prince's great delight, there waswoodcock shooting.
I propose that the annuity and mortgage interest shall begin from Lady-day ensuing, and the Deeds shall be sent to you whenever I can prevail on Woodcock to prepare them.
I am persuaded that you will not place an implicit confidence inWoodcock or any other Attorney.
Fancy them dodging like woodcock at home, from a blaze of sun into the deep shadows of subtropical palm groves!
More recent observation has confirmed White's objection and has established the fact of the woodcock holding the young one between her thighs, the beak being apparently used to steady her burden.
When a woodcock lies motionless among dead leaves, it is one of the most striking illustrations of protective colouring to be found anywhere.
The bill of the kiwi, which has the nostrils close to the tip, is even more sensitive than that of the woodcockand is employed in very similar fashion.
The woodcock is interesting as a parent because it is one of the very few birds that carry their young from place to place, and the only British bird that transports them clasped between her legs.
Taking one consideration with another, then, it is not surprising that the first warning cry of "Woodcock over!
Yonder was not the copse beyond the birches, where my woodcock sometimes found cover.
If the woodcock is as good as the canvasback," was her somewhat irrelevant reply, "I shall call the evening a success, after all.
Helena herself selected twowoodcock and approved the judgment of Jean in canvasback.
They also frequent pine woods and heather on the hills, and are identical in appearance with the woodcock found in England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woodcock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
