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Updated: June 14, 2025
At daybreak it was raining, and Billy after the manner of cowboys slept late; for there would be no riding until the weather cleared, and there being no herd to hold, there would be none working save the horse-wrangler, the night-hawk and cook. It was the cook who handed him a folded paper and a sealed envelope when he did finally appear for a cup of coffee.
I heard a night-hawk go by on a lonely mission, a beaver slide from a log into the water, and the delicate humming of the pine needles was a drowsy music, through which broke by-and-bye the strange crying of a loon from the water below. I was neither asleep nor awake, but steeped in this wide awe of night, the sweet smell of earth and running water in my nostrils.
"He is with his God Tharon or Christ, whichever it may be, Loskiel." "The Mole must not be scalped," said Tahoontowhee softly. "If the Senecas pass that way they will have at last one thing to boast of." I said to the Mohican: "Hold the Erie. The Night-Hawk and I will go back and bury our dead against Seneca profanation." "Let the Grey-Feather go, Loskiel." "No. The Mole was Christian.
At other times a perfect stillness reigned, so that he could distinctly hear the tiny hum of the mosquito; and then, all at once, would fall upon his ear the melancholy wailing of the night-hawk the "alma perdida," or "lost soul" for such is the poetical and fanciful name given by the Spanish Americans to this nocturnal bird. While thus engaged Leon began to feel very drowsy.
A night-hawk slowly wheeled from a distant grove, and came dreamily sailing high above his head. There was an instant's flare that revealed a group of dusky faces in the swamp below, a report, and the night-hawk plunged downwards and fell at his feet. "Mas'r Sin George," cried a voice, grim with murder ten minutes since, "we lebe you our card. Good night!" Mr. St.
The night-hawk, once common, is now rare. The brown thrush has moved farther up country. For years I have not seen or heard any of the larger owls, whose hooting was once of my boyish terrors. The cliff-swallow, strange emigrant, that eastward takes his way, has come and gone again in my time.
Help! but nobody heard him except the Night-hawk, and he told the OLD-man that he would help him all he could; so he flew away up in the air so far that he looked like a black speck. Then he came down straight and struck that rock an awful blow 'swow! and broke it in two pieces. Indeed he did.
Many times she fell, and once she was nearly swallowed in a drift of snow and cried out in her fear. "Who called aloud?" said Eric, turning; "I thought I heard a voice." "Nay," answers Gudruda, "it was but a night-hawk screaming." Now Swanhild lay quiet in the drift, but she said in her heart: "Ay, a night-hawk that shall tear out those dark eyes of thine, mine enemy!"
The delicatessen dealer lumbered into the elevator which had stopped; Pendleton was about to follow, but his friend detained him, and the car dropped downward without them. "That cab," said Ashton-Kirk, "is sure to be a night-hawk; and more than likely it is put up at Partridge's. Pardon me a moment."
"Yes, that's right," cried Brace: "a bird something like our English night-hawk that sits in the dark parts of the woods and makes a whirring sound; only it isn't half so loud as this." "Well," said the captain grudgingly, "perhaps you're right. I'm not good at birds. I know a gull or a goose or turkey or chicken. I give in."
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