whip-o'-will

Updated: May 28, 2025

"Nothing so much as the faint call of the whip-o'-will, so low and soft that the ear can hardly catch it." "It is strange that you should be the only one to notice it," she continued; "are you sure that you weren't mistaken?" "It may be I was, but my experience with the Iroquois has made me very suspicious; but I do hope I was off the track, for it may prove a bad thing if I wasn't."

Edward Sylvester Ellis - The Wilderness Fugitives

Jeff Wobbles, 't ain' no kin' ob 'liance till I see dat gole an' hab some ob it too!" Jeff had to succumb like many a higher-born suitor before him, with the added chagrin of remembering that he had first suggested the purely businesslike aspect of his motive. "Berry well; meet me here ter-morrer night when I whistle like a whip-o'-will. But yer ain' so smart as yer tink yer are, Suky.

Edward Payson Roe - Taken Alive