crake

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Examples

• If it is a young man, they should start with Oryx and Crake.

• Accepting the proffered service, the body was put on the mysterious animal's back, which carried it to Crake Minster.

• Then a nightingale began to give forth its long liquid gurgling; and a corn-crake churred in the young wheat.

• Two sounds are and have been heard all night—the ceaseless call of the crake and the not less ceaseless song of the sedge-bird.

• In the level meadow from among the tall grasses and white-flowering wild parsley a landrail called 'crake, crake,' ceaselessly.

• “Creek—creek,” sang the landrail or meadow-crake, apparently a quarter of a mile off.