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    rooks


    1. Instead of thick green leaves hanging from its branches, the ancient oak was covered in the large, round twig balls that made up a great city of rooks


    2. Ever since the tree had first raised its huge crown to the skies the rooks had made it their home, passing their history and their grandeur down through every generation until the present day, so that the bird city teemed with life and every resident rook knew that he or she was a true aristocrat


    3. He was convinced that if the tree was chopped down he could make real use of the land and be rid of the screaming rooks to boot


    4. large, round twig balls that made up a great city of rooks


    5. rooks had made it their home, passing their history and their


    6. The two rooks combine into a forty-foot high stone monster and grows its arm back


    7. The two rooks fall into the pit of lava behind Jaden


    8. Two rooks cawed to each other from the pine tree nearest our door; and Rose-Marie Schmidt said her morning prayers then and there, still clinging to her shovel


    9. He, in this seclusion, was able freely to illustrate his worship by gesticulations suited to his words--he was taking modern languages, and had a great choice of words,--while she listened to the rooks, whose cawings from a child had fascinated her, as they loved and quarrelled among their nests in the ancient elms


    10. She and the rooks were very good company; it was a perfect moment of the afternoon; and she could think of him boxed up and examined with wide-awake affection and sympathy, because she wasn't being lulled into absent-mindedness by his unceasing and curiously monotonous flow of eloquence

    11. rooks on their squares and leaned back in his chair


    12. From the cottage chimneys smoke went up straight and blue into the soft sky, rooks came and settled over her head in the branches of the elms, and every now and then a yellow leaf would fall slowly at her feet


    13. title on the card read: Detective Sergeant P C Rooks, Croydon CIU


    14. I had forgotten to logout of it when Detective Rooks had turned up


    15. to Detective Rooks and told him everything that we knew and had Vince busted


    16. bag them up and send them express to Detective Rooks


    17. Rooks then,’ said Topps


    18. Topps handed me the letter we’d carefully written and to Detective Rooks and a


    19. once Detective Rooks gets this


    20. from Detective Rooks for sure, but there was no progress at all

    21. planned,’ said Detective Rooks


    22. Detective Rooks would not confirm if formal


    23. Crass AND Vince were sweating it up with Detective Rooks!


    24. they had tabs on the Video Saloon anyway? Is that why Detective Rooks wanted to have


    25. Rooks assured me Vince had plenty of irons in the fire


    26. Detective Rooks had found a substantial amount of pirated discs in the store basement


    27. and then selling them over the counter and to local markets, but Detective Rooks said that Robert had admitted he was the intruder in the store


    28. If the assault charges stuck, Robert could be in more trouble than that, according to Detective Rooks


    29. Getting up in front of court had totally freaked me - it still does - but Detective Rooks told me to be calm and worry about it when the court case came around


    30. Detective Rooks had said Vince had

    31. Noirtier, for whom France was a vast chess-board, from which pawns, rooks, knights, and queens were to disappear, so that the king was checkmated—M


    32. The cathedral chimes had at once a sadder and a more remote sound to me, as I hurried on avoiding observation, than they had ever had before; so, the swell of the old organ was borne to my ears like funeral music; and the rooks, as they hovered about the gray tower and swung in the bare high trees of the priory garden, seemed to call to me that the place was changed, and that Estella was gone out of it for ever


    33. A colony of rooks inhabited the high trees around the keep, and strutted on the battlements like sergeants, cawing their dissatisfaction


    34. The rooks on the battlements laughed mockingly at him


    35. The rooks cawed a sarcastic welcome as Merthin and Caris crossed the inner bridge to the keep


    36. It was a lovely afternoon; the leaves from the lofty limes were falling silently across the sombre evergreens, while the lights and shadows slept side by side: there was no sound but the cawing of the rooks, which to the accustomed ear is a lullaby, or that last solemn lullaby, a dirge


    37. "So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my bedroom and the drawing room I can see the great elms of the cathedral close, with their great black stems standing out against the old yellow stone of the cathedral, and I can hear the rooks overhead cawing and cawing and chattering and chattering and gossiping all day, after the manner of rooks--and humans


    38. I was yet enjoying the calm prospect and pleasant fresh air, yet listening with delight to the cawing of the rooks, yet surveying the wide, hoary front of the hall, and thinking what a great place it was for one lonely


    39. The last of the swallows had gone long ago, and now the black outlines of rooks could be seen flying around the plowed fields looking for grubs


    40. I don't know exactly what 1 did dream though : it was just as in the picture, a corner of the Grecian Archipelago, and time seemed to have gone back three thousand years; blue smiling waves, isles and rooks, a flowery shore, a view like fairyland in the distance, a setting sun that seemed calling to me—there's no putting it into words

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