bird-of-passage

Updated: May 4, 2025

There was no moon to break the shadows in the Great Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Amnon; neither was there sound or sign of life, the winter residents and bird-of-passage tourists being duly occupied in the festivities which are the order of the night in hotel life on the Nile. It is not actually dangerous, nor is it actually wise, to visit the stupendous ruins of Egypt alone at night.

Joan Conquest - The Hawk of Egypt

"I fancy we shall like each other!" he said "Thou art a western singing bird-of-passage, and I a nested nightingale amid the roses of the East, our ways of making melody are different, we shall not quarrel!" "Quarrel!" echoed Theos amazedly "Nay! ... I might quarrel with my nearest and dearest, but never with thee, Sah-luma!

Marie Corelli - Ardath