Rooks

Now, scientists report that some relatives of crows called rooks used the same stone-dropping strategy to get at a floating worm. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All was as still in the Close as a cathedral-green can be between the Sunday services, and the incessant cawing of the rooks was the only sound. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The feasting ground of the rooks is the next field, and here they come to eat their walnuts. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

Year after year they held their parliaments and cawed and chattered and fussed; year after year they built their nests and hatched their eggs; year after year, I suppose, the old ones gradually died off and the young ones took their place, though, but for knowing this must be so, no one would have suspected it, for to all appearance the rooks were always the same – ever and always the same. ❋ Unknown (1893)

"The rooks are a very powerful tribe, and the magpies and cuckoos and blackbirds are liable to side with them, if they seem to be stronger than we are." ❋ Unknown (1887)

They are not yet ripe as a crop; the rooks are a good guide in that respect, and they have not yet set steadily to work upon this their favourite autumn food. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

'Endeavour, Madam,' said he, 'to procure him knowledge; for really ignorance to a rich man is like fat to a sick sheep, it only serves to call the rooks about him.' ❋ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)

The rook study, for example, dubbed the rooks’ behavior as both “insightful,” and “creative.” ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Every bend of the avenue evokes some incident of childish life (in Ireland we call any road leading to a house an avenue, even if it is absolutely bare of trees; we also speak of rooks as crows, and these two provincialisms jarred on my ear after my long stay in Sussex). ❋ Unknown (1892)

Gehazi "rooks" from Naaman; the bishops "prog and pander for fees," and are "the common stales to countenance every politic fetch that was then on foot." ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

But, for argument's sake, let me suppose that your "rooks" are transferred from their nests to your model dwellings. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

If you transplant a colony of "rooks" into good quarters, you will have another rookery on your hands; if you remove a drove of brutes into reasonable human dwelling-places, you will soon have a set of homes fit for brutes and for brutes alone. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

Let a colony of "rooks" take possession of a sound, well-fitted building, and it will be found that not even the most stringent daily visitation will prevent utter wreck from being wrought. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

He encounters villains, lawyers, kind-hearted peers, "rooks" and "pigeons," gipsies, leaders of fashion, fair maidens -- enough and to spare. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Senior cadets help train the freshmen, who are known as "rooks," and the upperclassmen receive special training to ensure their conduct is above board and not abusive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Larry Evans wrote in his Modern Chess Brilliancies that the game combines unusual theoretical value with a setting unique in the annals of chess history - bishop and pawns slaying two rooks. ❋ Lubomir Kavalek (2011)

To achieve his objective, he is willing to sacrifice two rooks. ❋ Lubomir Kavalek (2011)

The nature of the insult was never made public, though I for one would like to think it might have involved the phrase "You mate with rooks". ❋ Unknown (2012)

those [bastards] have rooked me out of £[50] ❋ Ben (2003)

Mate - [Ye] coming for a [pint] [bud]? Me - Nah man, I'm rooked. ❋ Mikey Lee (2006)

"Rook over there, [Shaggie]" "[Scooby], I'm so fucking high I don't know where I am, but I think I am currently shitting on [Velma's] face" ❋ Every1 Hates Me...lol (2008)

[Rook] : how are you feeling feeling today [Cheyenne] Cheyenne: [I’m ok] thank you for asking [rook] you are always there when I need some one to talk to (and you’re kinda cute) ❋ Jenny (not Really) (2022)

White [Rook] takes [Black Knight] in the [e3] square. ❋ Bmurtinho (2006)

[Floor it] and [rook] that [bastard]! ❋ JayBawlz (2019)

"I trust that the ceramic trauma plate I'm wearing will stop a .[357] Magnum round traveling at four-hundred and [ninety] meters per second. I trust myself not to move, not to flinch. I trust my team mates and they trust me." — [Rook] ❋ Trashyfuzemainblyat (2019)

i'm going to [pinch] a [nug] of this [rook's] herb because he doesn't know what a good ounce looks like. zach is such a rook for forgeting to bring his lighter ❋ L75195880H (2004)

My [rook] is [itching] [like crazy], but if I don't stop scratching, it may get infected. ❋ Nikkki (2004)

why is rook so [fucking] [shy] ❋ No One Likes Me😔 (2020)