whip-will's-widow

Updated: May 19, 2025

Suddenly the cry of the whip-Will's-widow filled the grove "whip-Will's-widow! whip-Will's-widow! whip-Will's-widow!" in headlong importunity until the whole air sobbed and quivered with the overcharge of its melancholy passion.

George Washington Cable - John March, Southerner

The night had cleared most beautifully, and overhead the stars were burning like points of white fire in the black dome of the heavens. As often happens after a shower, the night shrillings of the forest were in fullest tide; and a whip-will's-widow, disturbed by our approach, fluttered to a higher perch and set up his plaintive protest.

Francis Lynde - The Master of Appleby: A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady