Nests

Examples

• Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I dare say at some time or other Sentiment and Comedy will bring THEIR husbands home and have THEIR nests upstairs too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They are incapable of making their own nests, or of feeding their own larvae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Audubon has given several remarkable cases of differences in the nests of the same species in the northern and southern United States. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Your three birds are all in their nests, said Holmes, looking up. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Amy and Louisa, return to your nests like a pair of doves, as you are. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was now on a level with the crow colony, and could see into their nests. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Various birds, as has already been remarked, occasionally lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Many bees are parasitic, and regularly lay their eggs in the nests of other kinds of bees. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She could climb a tree to rob the nests of the feathered songsters of their speckled spoils. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She knew them in crowds passing to and from their nests, like ants or beetles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I could also give several instances of various birds which have been known occasionally to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The seamen would find it easy to make nests upon islands and in strong positions on the mainland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I could make you,' said Sloppy, surveying the room, 'I could make you a handy set of nests to lay the dolls in. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Tortoises lay their eggs in underground nests, where they remain for almost a year, and, strange to say, they have a very curious way of drilling holes for these nests with their tails. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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