"Blackcock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blackcock flew, The lerrick muntit the skies; The burnie ran, and a baein began, But Johnnie ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... in February, when Gabrielle was sitting in a dream over her turf fire, Considine came home from a day's blackcock shooting in the woods on the edge of the lake. She did not hear him coming, for the garden path was now deep in fallen leaves. As he turned to open the house door Considine saw a small shadow moving under the garden hedge. He thought ...
— The Tragic Bride • Francis Brett Young
... stretch trackless moors, the solitude of which is broken only by the whimpling sound of the burns on their way to the valley below, the hum of bees gathering honey among the heather, the whirr of a blackcock on the wing, the plaintive cry of the ewes at lambing-time, or the sharp bark of the shepherd's dog gathering the ...
— The Life of Thomas Telford by Smiles • Samuel Smiles
... the partridges and the blackcock falling on all sides under a hail of lead, flying panic-stricken before the horrible massacre ...
— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant
... away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest. Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the blackcock sweetest sips it. Where the fairy latest ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor |
