Night Crow

“I am the dwarf Nectabanus,” said the abortion-seeming male, in a voice corresponding to his figure, and resembling the voice of the night-crow more than any sound which is heard by daylight. ❋ Unknown (2008)

` ` I am the dwarf Nectabanus, '' said the abortion-seeming male, in a voice corresponding to his figure, and resembling that of the night-crow more than any sound which is heard by daylight. ❋ Unknown (1894)

The night-crow crouches on the newly-dug flower-bed to lure its mate. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)

He listened to the nuptial song of the insects above the lime trees, which rings in our ears like a funeral dirge: he heard the purring call of the night-crow; the ardent mewing of the cat, which sounds as if death, and not life, were wooing; the humming note of the dung-beetle, the fluttering of the large moths, the thin peeping of the bats. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)

I even brooked to jest with the night-crow, as my own poor lord called this Nan Boleyn. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

The latter nestles also in clefts of rocks, and is known by the name of the night-crow. ❋ Unknown (1851)

Wolsey himself spoke of her under the title of "the night-crow," [189] as the person to whom he owed all which was most cruel in his treatment; as "the enemy that never slept, but studied and continually imagined, both sleeping and waking, his utter destruction." [ ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)

nikkies garden has night [crows] [patrolling] the area kenny is next [on the list] for the night crows ❋ Noominoomi (2007)