Missel

Word MISSEL
Character 6
Hyphenation mis sel
Pronunciations N/A

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The people of Hampshire and Sussex call the missel-bird the storm-cock, because it sings early in the spring in blowing, showery weather; its song often commences with the year: with us it builds much in orchards. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

There are also the crocus, the missel thrush, the cuckoo, the blackthorn, etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Do you suppose he's forgotten the Cuban missel crisis when soviet nuclear weapons were pointed at us only 90 miles from our shore? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Notes and comments on missel defense treasties, rules of engagement, stuuf like that. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One of them was a noble bird, such as I never had seen before, of very fine bright plumage, and larger than a missel-thrush. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Then hand in hand they soberly left the quiet resting-place, the missel-thrush peering out of its bold eye at their retreating figures. ❋ M. B. Manwell (N/A)

He devours the berries eagerly, and soils, or "missels" his feet with their viscid seeds, conveying them thus from tree to tree, and getting thence the name of missel thrush. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

_ A bird which builds chiefly in apple - trees; I believe it is the _Turdus viscivorus, _ or missel. ❋ James Jennings (N/A)

In size it is not much larger than a missel thrush. ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)

The kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings, as it were, swim along, while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations, like a butterfly. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The recent increase of the missel-thrush in parts of Scotland has caused the decrease of the song-thrush. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

Once more, as in early spring, the air is full of wings, missel thrushes, fieldfares and redpolls are busy in the ploughlands, great gatherings of starlings assemble in the afternoon to go to roost in the reeds; when thousands of them rise together, there is a sound like the unfurling of a silken banner. ❋ Unknown (1917)

At each spray's end flutter missel-thrushes, their spread wings lined with silver. ❋ Unknown (1917)

I was pleased to see the bold, masterful missel thrush, the stormcock as it is often called; but this bird breeds and sings in the early spring, when the weather is still tempestuous, and had long been silent when we saw it. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Her garden was her nest and she was like a missel thrush. ❋ Unknown (1911)

She would never again feel like a missel thrush with a safe-hidden nest. ❋ Unknown (1911)

The recent increase of the missel thrush in parts of Scotland has caused the decrease of the song thrush. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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