How To Use Woodcock In A Sentence
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As Matthew Woodcock points out, there have been many studies of queenliness in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, but very few that made sense of the poet's use of fairy.
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Tony Woodcock has joined German amateur team SC Brueck as coach.
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Mr Woodcock's wife Mandy and 18-month-old daughter Maisie were only yards away when he was abused and "mooned" at by young yobs after he went to confront them.
Evening Mail news round-up
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A deer was said to be broken, a cony unlaced, a pheasant, partridge, or quail winged, a pigeon or a woodcock thighed, a plover minced, a mallard unbraced.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
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Mr. Woodcock: You must like Farley, I guess it runs in the family.
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Mr. Woodcock: You must like getting spanked Farley, I guess it runs in the family.
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The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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No, I'm bent over double thinking what my bag limit on woodcock, snipe, rails and other game birds would be.
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Flint's ancestors came from Spain and were bred in the UK to specifically catch Eurasian Woodcocks, which is where the term 'cocker' comes from.
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I saw at the meeting Mr. Woodcock, who is OOCL 's Chief Representative.
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A businessman used to controlling his investment portfolio has no control on the spring salmon run or the flight of the woodcock.
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Late winter is the time for the annual courtship display of the American woodcock, a.k.a. timberdoodle.
Undefined
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In the latter two cases, the terms outlived the incumbents, as Quisenberry was dead from scarlet fever and Darey hit by lightning while woodcock shooting before the reservoir was half full.
Stillwater
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There were also a number of snipe, woodcock, and red legged partridge taken.
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The wind was slowly veering toward the east, as the Grimsby man had predicted, with no sign of any storm as yet, but rather a prospect of winterly weather, and a breeze to bring the woodcocks in.
Mary Anerley
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Alan Donaldson Scottish woodcock, bread sauce and woodcock giblets on toast; When you tell a resident of Edinburgh that there are three one-star Michelin restaurants in the town's old port of Leith, you are usually met with the sort of astonished look reserved for someone who claims to adore the skirl of bagpipes last thing at night, or insists that he craves the Scottish chip-shop delicacy, the battered, deep-fried Mars Bar.
From Ships to Michelin Stars
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Small spaniel dogs weighing up to 25 pounds were called cockers because they were used to hunt woodcocks.
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Woodcock, apparently, are also slow to adapt to changes -- changes such as a teeming city being built in the middle of an historic flyway.
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The nightingale and woodcock have completely disappeared.
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“Ay, marry, is it!” said Woodcock; “but I wish I could hood thee as they do the hawks, for thou starest as wildly as if you sought another fray or another fanfarona.
The Abbot
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Apart from the grouse and the woodcock which gives the hill its name, it's a very important habitat for the hen harrier, which is very rare.
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Tony Woodcock has joined German amateur team SC Brueck as coach.
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Mr. Three per Cent., "said one," this is what you call sporting, is it -- killing starved woodcocks?
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
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Mrs Woodcock has been hard at work making home-baked parkin made with locally-brewed real ale Wold Top beer.
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I also noted two woodcock roding high overhead.
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The prowler has tried to get through windows and doors of retirement homes in Woodcock Park and Whitfield Close in Warminster.
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Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
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The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
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W.od-duck, bob white, woodcock, golden plover, Hudsonian curlew, knot and dowitcher [are threatened with extinction.] -- (C.W. Nash, Toronto.)
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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The Birds of the Western Palearctic sounds a typically cautious note, recording a flushed female woodcock “calling and apparently struggling to prop young between feet with depressed tail.”
A Year on the Wing
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I would send him sometimes snipe or golden plover from Kiltartan bog or woodcock from the hazel woods at Coole, hoping to tempt him with something that might better nourish the worn body than the little custard pudding that was used to serve him for his two days 'dinner, because of that "horrible dyspepsia" that often makes those who have been long in prison live starving after their release, mocked with the sight of food.
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
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Shorebirds are fond of other insect pests of forage and grain crops, including the army worm, which is known to be eaten by the killdeer and spotted sandpiper; also cutworms, among whose enemies are the avocet, woodcock, pectoral and Baird sandpipers, upland plover, and killdeer.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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A woodcock flushed from its cover.
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The skies bloomed with woodcock, and geese, and grackle, scattering themselves like seeds upon fields of blue.
The Whisperers
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I browse the entry for woodcock—Woodcock recipes from Larousse Gastronomique 1984; English trans., London: Paul Hamlyn, 1997, pp.
A Year on the Wing
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Whats sportsman is there who at some time may not have been crossed by a flock of geese or a plump of wild ducks as he has been shooting pheasants or woodcocks?
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While the woodcock is an easy bird to hit, with a soft flight like an owl, and if you do miss him he will probably pitch down and give you another shot.
Hemingway on Hunting
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The 16 paintings in the British Birds in Watercolour exhibition at Nunnington were completed over the past year and feature game birds grouse, partridge and woodcock as well as kingfisher, robin, whitethroat and tawny owl.
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Wild birds that might be acceptable alternatives for William include woodcock, wood pigeon, partridge and grouse.
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Feeding behaviour was most interesting, the bird rocking its body rhythmically up and down like a woodcock and as if on springs.
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Horatio may be taking his cue from what the dying Laertes has just said: Laertes is 'as a woodcock to mine own springe'.
Shakespeare
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About a mile in the opposite direction as we walk through a little belt of wet pineland, where the woodcock runs across our path or whistles up from the wet leaves, we come suddenly upon a dozen or more little basins, the largest not over six feet by nine, which have no outlet whatever.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease.
Mary Anerley
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Early and late falls of woodcock add to the excitement of the day.
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On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.
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The woodlands behind the house provide the habitat for roe deer, pheasants, woodcock, and pigeons which form the basis for a small rough shoot.
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When there has been a large fall of woodcock during the night, birds may be found at times in the strangest places.
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Woodcock analyses the fictiveness of fairy stories in Spenser's world, basing his approach on recent studies of the ontology of witches.
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He was returning home at noon through the gardens, when he perceived there had been a great fall of woodcock in the night.
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A traditional raffle with a dozen prizes such as brace of pheasant, duck, woodcock or rabbit, was held to raise funds for new cages.
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The place was packed; Tony Woodcock, the new president of the New England Conservatory (a concert co-sponsor, with the BSO and the Celebrity Series), gave an effusive introduction with a record-high incidence of the adjectivally-modifying "absolutely".
Archive 2007-11-01
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My parents had an American woodcock calling and displaying on their back lawn.
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John Farley : [ says quietly to Woodcock ] Are you okay?
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Why can you be assured that snipe, grouse, partridge, pheasant or woodcock is what it is, but a chicken is more likely to be a jellied flying rat?
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In addition to slaughtering grouse and woodcock he found time to play in the estate's annual cricket match against Strathmore, scoring a modest nine runs in an innings of 303 for nine declared.
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The little bird in the middle with the long beak has been known as the woodcock, but I notice it has nostrils in the end of that beak--?
Archive 2006-08-01
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Willow tit numbers have fallen 78 percent, woodcock by 74 percent, and song thrushes have more than halved.
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For dinner we had a woodcock with souffl" potatoes and pur-e de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert.
A Farewell To Arms
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The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
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Raymond has shot a pheasant and a woodcock, tripling his one-grouse tally from the morning.
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On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.
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i have found some birds in whitewater, woodcock too!
Minnesota Grouse
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The 28 shines brightest at modest ranges: in woodcock thickets, quail piney woods, and dove fields, and on skeet and five-stand setups.
Deadly Darlings
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The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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Much later we learned we had stumbled upon a fall of woodcock.
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John Woodcock watched as final farewells were said to a respected member of the aristocracy.
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Catz dallied on the ball in the left-back slot and the alert Woodcock stole the ball, but he was stopped from finishing at the last gasp.
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And this time of year, there is tons of game: snipe, hare, woodcock, pheasant.
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Watoga, West Virginia's largest state park, in the Allegheny highlands, attracts wetland birds such as woodcocks, wood ducks, and waterthrushes.
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Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease.
Mary Anerley
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A fall of woodcocks skimmed a tree-ringed meadow.
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Of the lot the upper end gun is the Woodcock, color casehardened, single selective trigger, ejectors on the 12 & 20, screw in choketubes.
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The estate extends in all to some 5300 acres and offers some classic red and roe deer stalking, woodcock shooting and excellent brown trout fishing on a number of hill lochs.
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Tapping around my rooted limbs and grounded chest, a circus of quail, woodcock, and mallard perform.
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Tony Woodcock has joined German amateur team SC Brueck as coach.
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The nightingale and woodcock have completely disappeared.
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Particular importance is attached to black duck, mallard, gadwall, bluewinged teal, wood duck, bobwhite quail, ringnecked pheasant, American woodcock, mourning dove and recently reintroduced turkey, because of their importance as game birds and their occurrence as nesting species in the wetlands and upland fringe.
Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve
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The hills around him were teeming with wild birds as the snipe, woodcock, and blackbirds and this was the life he loved to study and watch.
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“Never tell me of your points of honour,” said Touchwood, raising his voice altogether above the general tone of polite conversation — “all humbug, Captain MacTurk — mere hair-traps to springe woodcocks — men of sense break through them.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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Milton's accentuation of the word "Cambuscan", on the penult; it's properly accented on the ultimate. beccaccia: woodcock. the Duomo's fit ally: "There is, as far as I know, only one Gothic building in Europe, the Duomo of Florence, in which the ornament is so exquisitely finished as to enable us to imagine what might have been the effect of the perfect workmanship of the Renaissance, coming out of the hands of men like Verocchio and Ghiberti, had it been employed on the magnificent framework of Gothic structure.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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Of course, “Semi-Pro” was helmed by Kent Alterman, producer of such comedy classics as “Balls of Fury” and “Mr. Woodcock,” and written by Scot “School for Scoundrels” Armstrong, so such introspection is understandably shallow … even by mainstream Hollywood standards.
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And I was not wrong; wild boar, stag, chamois, deer, and other ‘trophy animals’ are all to be found in Bulgaria's rich and varied countryside, along with birds such as partridge, woodcock, pheasant and quail.
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A rare eye, too, is his at the setting of a springe for woodcocks, or tracking a maukin on the snow.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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At the other end, Magdalen always looked the more likely to get the next goal with Chris Woodcock arrowing a long range effort wide and Jones spurning a good chance.
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But now I find I was a gull, a wittol, a woodcock, a mere ninny, a dolt-head,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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These little brown snipe you call woodcock, he began; we bagged nine brace, dyou see?
The Fighting Chance
