Swallows Sentence Examples

She took several swallows and lowered the canteen.

Glareolidae, wading swallows and coursers.

The Bandanese pay occasional visits to shoot bears and deer; there are numbers of wild goats and cattle; and among birds are mentioned cassowaries, cockatoos, birds of paradise, and the swallows that furnish edible nests.

Geese, ducks and other water fowl frequent the lakes and bays in the migratory season, and eagles, gulls, hawks, kingfishers, owls, plover, woodcock, " partridge " (ruffed grouse), robins, orioles, bobolinks, blue birds, swallows, sparrows, and many other insectivorous birds are common.

Great numbers of eagles, vultures, hawks, bustards and other birds of prey are met with; and partridges, duck, teal, guinea-fowl, sand-grouse, curlews, woodcock, snipe, pigeons, thrushes and swallows are very plentiful.

She rubbed each mule down with the burlap sack and wiped the nostrils of each mule with a dampened cloth before allowing herself a few swallows of tepid water.

Diagnosis is usually made with barium X-rays (taken after the patient swallows barium liquid to show up the inside of the intestine ).

Swallows collect in their thousands to roost in the reed beds and are hunted by the elegant hobby falcon.

Swallows 4 star awarded accommodations The Old Courtyard Swift and Swallow Cottage are two newly converted 4-star accommodation very tastefully furbished.

There was beautiful light on the first stretch and we saw many little grebe and swallows, the latter letting us come really close.

These included cinnamon and rufous tailed hummingbirds, blue and white swallows and brown jay.

In winter I have seen flocks of fieldfare, redwing and mistle thrush plus the usual jackdaws, rooks, starlings and seasonal swallows.

Penhalt is a working farm with a few chickens and we have nesting house martins and swallows.

We watched Chough, Gray Heron and more oystercatchers, Swallows and Sand Martins before heading out along the eastern headland to the tip.

Another screening technique is barium radiology in which the patient swallows barium liquid that shows the inside of the stomach on X-ray.

When he gets really riled, the compound he swallows activates, covering him with blue armor.

I don't know if the Swallows ran to a tea strainer, but this is useful if you use leaf tea.

Overhead a steady trickle of Swallows plus the odd House Martin.

A male catching voles alongside the minibus on South Uist was mobbed by Swallows.

Ducks and geese frequent it in the spring and fall, the white-bellied swallows (Hirundo bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets (Totanus macularius) "teeter" along its stony shores all summer.

Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) were hunted by a Sparrow hawk (Accipiter nisus).

I do n't know if the Swallows ran to a tea strainer, but this is useful if you use leaf tea.

April 14 th 1915 The twittering of swallows was welcome at Borley on Monday, the cuckoo was heard a fortnight ago.

According to Dr. Green.com, when someone swallows food, that food travels down the esophagus, a sphincter at the lower end relaxes, and the food enters the stomach.

If your child swallows a battery, call poison control at 800-222-1222 right away.

He constantly gnaws, licks, bites, almost swallows his paws when lying down "cleaning".

Hiding the tab in a dollop of peanut butter, inserting it in it in a favorite treat or wrapping it in a piece of cheese can help assure your dog swallows it.

Usually, this involves prying the mouth open, placing the pill on the back of the tongue and gently holding the mouth shut until the dog swallows the pill.

The epiglottis is a piece of cartilage behind the tongue that closes the opening to the windpipe when a person swallows.

Lead poisoning occurs when a person swallows, absorbs, or inhales lead in any form.

Ranging from symbols that signified time at sea and affiliations (such as swallows and nautical stars) to fully detailed sailing ships, sailors were known for their chest tattoos.

Many people do this, with swallows and sparrows carrying the names of deceased loved ones and other banners bearing personal mottos.

If your child swallows any of these substances, contact a doctor or poison control immediately.

Take a few swallows of water and rest your legs for a minute.

Hibil's contest with darkness has its prototype in Marduk's battle with chaos, the dragon Tiamat, which (another striking parallel) partially swallows Marduk, just as is related of Hibil and the Manichaean primal man.

For the rest his classification demands no particular remark; but that in a work of this kind he had the courage to recognize, for instance, such a fact as the essential difference between swallows and swifts lifts him considerably above the crowd of other ornithological writers of his time.

The other birds include parrots, toucans, gaudily coloured cuckoos, lories, swallows, shrikes, sun-birds, kingfishers, weavers, finches, wild pigeons and crows.

The effects of a bite by a poisonous snake upon a small mammal or bird are almost instantaneous, preventing its escape; and the snake swallows its victim at its leisure, sometimes hours after it has been killed.

The birds include eagles - some are called lammervangers from their occasional attacks on young lambs - vultures, hawks, kites, owls, crows, ravens, the secretary bird, cranes, a small white heron, quails, partridges, korhaans, wild geese, duck, and guineafowl, swallows, finches, starlings, the mossie or Cape sparrow, and the widow bird, noted for the length of its tail in summer.

On getting the worm fairly out of the ground, it throws up its head with a jerk, and swallows it whole."

But the lammergeyer has also a great partiality for bones, which when small enough it swallows.

There may also be mentioned 21 cuckoos, I cockatoo, 20 parrots and parakeets, 20 woodpeckers, barbets, broadbills, starlings, orioles, weaver-finches, larks, nuthatches, 28 beautifully coloured sun-birds, and 23 flower-peckers, titmice, shrikes, swallow-shrikes, tailor-birds, thrushes, fruit-thrushes, fairy blue-birds, fire-birds, 42 fly-catchers, 4 swallows, and 5 species of most beautifully coloured ant-thrushes, as well as a large number of birds for which English names cannot be readily supplied.

Green and grey parrots, ravens, swallows and magpies are also common.

Meantime God has "appointed a great fish" which swallows up Jonah.

The most important are eagles, kites, vultures, falcons, owls, horn-bills, cranes, pheasants (notably the argus, fire-back and peacock-pheasants), partridges, ravens, crows, parrots, pigeons, woodpeckers, doves, snipe, quail and swallows.

On the east coast peafowl are found, and throughout the interior the argus pheasant, the firebacked pheasant, the blue partridge, the adjutantbird, several kinds of heron and crane, duck, teal, cotton-teal, snipe, wood-pigeon, green-pigeon of several varieties, swifts, swallows pied-robins, hornbills, parakeets, fly-catchers, nightjars, and many other kinds of bird are met with frequently.

The ordinary revenue of the empire is in excess of the ordinary expenditure, but the extraordinary expenditure not only swallows up this surplus, but necessitates the raising of fresh F loans every year.