10 LIVROS EM INGLÊS RELACIONADOS COM «PEETWEET»
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1
Why the Crocodile Has a Wide Mouth: and Other Nature Myths
Every bird that flies had come to the Father, but the peetweet had come last
because he was lazy. “I do not really wish to fly all over the earth,” said he, “to
show the waters where to go.” “Oh, I wish I were a bird,” said a butterfly. “I should
be so ...
2
The Book of Nature Myths for Children
Every bird that flies had come to the Father, but the peetweet had come last
because he was lazy. " I do not really wish to fly all over the earth," said he, " to
show the waters where to go." " Oh, I wish I were a bird," said a butterfly. "I should
be so ...
3
Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who ...
The sun was hot here, and Peetweet was getting tired. He was thirsty, too, and
persisted in drinking the swamp water whenever he found a hole. "Say, Peetweet
, you'll suffer for that if you don't quit; that water isn't fit to drink unless you boil it.
Ernest Thompson Seton, 2010
4
Two Little Savages: Being the Adventures of Two Boys who ...
The sun was hot here, and Peetweet was getting tired. He was thirsty, too, and
persisted in drinking the swamp water when ever he found a hole. " Say,
Peetweet, you'll suffer for that if you don't quit; that water isn't fit to drink unless
you boil it.
5
Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American ...
(602) According to Thoreau, Emerson did make a kill on the hunt, a peetweet, a
small shore bird that goes unmentioned in his poem. The unlikeliness of
Emerson as sportsman makes Thoreau exclaim, “Emerson says that he and
Agassiz and ...
6
Harp on the Shore: Thoreau and the Sea
2 The peetweet had the same effect on him. Ornithologists today take pains to tell
us that in New England the otherwise ubiquitous spotted sandpiper (the peetweet
) nests along the seashore. "The peetweet," our only beach-bird, teetering ...
Willard Hallam Bonner, George R. Levine, 1985
7
Birds Every Child Should Know
Still another popular name was given fromitssharp call peetweet, peetweet,
rapidly repeated, and usually uttered as the bird fliesin graceful curves over
thewater or inland fields. WOODCOCK Called also: Blind, Walleyed, Mud,
Bigheaded, ...
8
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals
Aug. 2. 3 Emerson says that he and Agassiz and Company broke some dozens
of ale bottles, one after another, with their bullets, in the Adirondack country,
using them for marks! It sounds rather Cockneyish. He says hat he shot a
peetweet for ...
9
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of ...
It sounds rather Cockneyish.32 He says that he shot a peetweet for Agassiz, and
this, I think he said, was the first game he ever bagged. He carried a double-
barrelled gun,—rifle and shotgun,—which he bought for the purpose, which he
says ...
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer, 2007
10
The Oxford Guide to Etymology
... which originate in more or less close conventionalized representations of the
animals' cries, for instance bird names such as chiff-chaff, petchary, peewee,
peesweep, peetweet, peewit, morepork, poorwill, potrack, purl, whippoorwill, etc.
