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    woodcock


    1. Here is a better case: the leg of a woodcock was sent to me by a friend, with a little cake of dry earth attached to the shank, weighing only nine grains; and this contained a seed of the toad-rush (Juncus bufonius) which germinated and flowered


    2. Woodcock with earth attached to leg


    3. Thither, too, the woodcock led her brood, to probe the mud for worms, flying but a foot above them down the bank, while they ran in a troop beneath; but at last, spying me, she would leave her young and circle round and round me, nearer and nearer till within four or five feet, pretending broken wings and legs, to attract my attention, and get off her young, who would already have taken up their march, with faint, wiry peep, single file through the swamp, as she directed


    4. That little fellow, Trishatov, you saw hira ; Alphonsine is sick at the very sight of him, and won't let him come near her; and here in the presence of officers he calls out: ' I must have woodcock


    5. ' I stood him, woodcock! But I'll pay them out


    6. There were woodcock left in the marshes; he had seen them—by accident, I guessed


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    "woodcock" definitions

    game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe