Rook

(noun.) common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow.

戴维录入

• Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This Rook is poor and hasn't got any rich relations, has he? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Is your last box of Doucet dresses a failure, or did Judy rook you out of everything at bridge last night? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• At Gresham College by 1658 it was the custom to remain for discussion Wednesdays and Thursdays after Mr. Wrens l ecture and Mr. Rook's. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Indistinct visions of rook-pie floated through his imagination. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Why, your friend and I,' replied the host, 'are going out rook-shooting before breakfast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There was a scream as of an individual--not a rook--in corporal anguish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The ragged nests, so long deserted by the rooks, were gone; and the trees were lopped and topped out of their remembered shapes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The rooks cawed, and blither birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own rejoicing heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Half a dozen young rooks in violent conversation, flew out to ask what the matter was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The rooks cawed loudly in the trees above; mixed with their hoarse cries I heard a lively strain of music. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The information was unnecessary; for the incessant cawing of the unconscious rooks sufficiently indicated their whereabouts. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Why, in plain English, to frighten the rooks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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