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Sentences ending with nest

And you, Gohawk, would not understand, if you saw the nest. [11]
Was she face to face with ruin already, she who, two minutes ago, was as safe and happy as a young bird in its nest? [11]
You have heard the cry of the eagle, you have seen him carry off a lamb, you have had a pot-shot at him, but what do you know of the eagle's nest? [11]
It was plain that the Russian nest was ruined and destroyed, but in place of the Russian order of life that had been destroyed, Pierre unconsciously felt that a quite different, firm, French order had been established over this ruined nest. [2]
But now he said in a half monotone: "Have you seen the way I have built my nest? [11]
Will the ring-dove return to her nest? [6]
There's as much religion here as you'll find in a last year's bird's- nest. [11]
This has been observed more frequently with the magpie than with any other bird, owing perhaps to its conspicuous appearance and nest. [1]
Come to my nest. [11]
At eighty a man has had just about time to get warmly settled in his nest. [6]

Sentences containing nest two or more times

There is an orchard beyond the sea, With a nest where the linnets hide; Oh, warm is the nest that is built for me- In my true love's heart I bide! [11]
You have no blame for the lucky few who naturally decline to vacate the pleasant nest they were born into, you only despise the all-powerful and stupid mass of the nation for allowing the nest to exist. [5]

More example sentences with the word nest in them

This place is your home, and dearer to you than any other, so build yourself a snug nest here with the person you have in mind. [10]
Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
You've heard the words of the song--the river drivers sing it: "'What is there like to the cry of the bird That sings in its nest in the lilac tree? [11]
If he doesn't wish to enter this heretic's nest himself, for which I don't blame him in the least, he need only send horses or the carriage for me. [10]
He yielded, but went out to learn whether Herr Casper was still in the office, and in a short time returned, exclaiming angrily: "The old Eysvogel seems to be building his nest here! [10]
One might as well reason with a bee as to the form of his cell, or with an oriole as to the construction of his swinging nest, as try to stir these creatures from their own way of doing their own work. [6]
To him she was the one being in the world worth struggling for; the bird to be caught on the wing, or coaxed into the nest, or snared into the net; and two of the three things he had tried without avail. [11]
I knew it was the nest of some wild animal; but I was nearly dead with hunger and fatigue. [11]
In fact, there was a nest of young mutineers just there, which must be broken up by a coup d'etat. [6]
How did he wake me with his lips upon mine eyes, How did the singers carol--the singers of my soul That nest among the thoughts of my beloved! [11]
How did he wake me with his lips upon mine eyes, How did the singers carol, the singers of my soul, That nest among the thoughts of my beloved! [11]
The people of Virginia have thus allowed this giant insurrection to make its nest within her borders; and this government has no choice left but to deal with it where it finds it. [7]
Mardiou and your uncle Zeno saw with their own eyes the strange swallows drive away those which had built their nest on the helm of the Antonias, and kill the young ones with their cruel beaks. [10]
When the fire to the onthedownburninghouseresting Stork's Nest reached, flew the parent Storks away. [5]
He had promised to take her from the Owl's Nest, after nightfall, for a lonely row upon the water. [10]
He was about to make haste on deck again, where his own nest was, when, glancing through the window, he saw Mahommed Ibrahim stealing down the bank to the boat's side. [11]
Somehow she seemed to him like a small bird on its first flight from the nest, or, as Patsy Kernaghan would have said, "a tame lamb loose in a zoolyogical gardin. [11]
Lastly, Bias was to deliver five talents to old Tabus, who kept the treasure of the pirate family on the Owl's Nest, and tell her that Ledscha, in this money, sent back the bridal dowry which Hanno had paid her father for his daughter. [10]
And when the time of its dissolution draws near, that it must die, it makes itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices, into which, when its time is fulfilled, it enters and dies. [5]
The storm raved through the halls and corridors; lightning and thunder raged fiercely overhead; and the terrified wretches, suddenly sobered, rushed about or huddled together, like ants whose nest has been upturned. [10]
Had she stopped there she might have escaped unpunished; but there were two hungry little beaks agape in the nest, and she saw a pretty lamb with a little red flag on its back. [10]
In thy nest there are two birds where was but one. [11]
She would climb the rugged old hemlocks now and then for the sake of a wide outlook, or to peep into the large nest where a hawk, or it may be an eagle, was raising her little brood of air-pirates. [6]
He moved from the robber nest into the rich Eysvogel house opposite. [10]
She was awaiting the return of her sister, who, she supposed, was still detained on the Owl's Nest by old Tabus's predictions; she had sorrowful tidings for her. [10]
To make warm the nest which was to receive his dear nightingale he had conquered the economy which was beginning to degenerate into avarice, and also intended to accomplish other sacrifices in order to procure her the position which she deserved. [10]
But now, in the name of Osiris, tell me what can have induced you, you old ibis, to leave your warm nest on the Nile and set out on such a long journey eastward. [10]
So long as the mother's wings cover it, the young bird doesn't fly so thoughtlessly out of the warm nest into the wide world. [10]
You shall be the garden and I shall be the wall; you the nest and I the rock; you the breath of life and I the body that breathes it. [11]
Venters thought of the eagles and their lofty nest in a niche under the arch. [13]
I flew down the companion-way, looked about for him, could not find him, then returned to the deck just in time to catch a glimpse of him as he re-entered that confounded nest of rascality. [5]
Never doubt but that the rogue can feather his own nest far better than can I, as indeed he hath already done. [9]
It is said that the Dilsbergers do not emigrate much; they find that living up there above the world, in their peaceful nest, is pleasanter than living down in the troublous world. [5]
Were the young that should have but one nest to be parted, to have only sorrow, if Joel lived? [11]
The choicest egg that ever was laid was not so big as the nest that held it. [6]
We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a hornet's nest, but we didn't. [5]
The nest of Sons of Liberty that Driscoll landed in had not a sober bird in it; in fact there was probably not an entirely sober one in the auditorium. [5]
If that were so--as it proved to be--he was in a nest of scorpions; for who among them would spare him: Marin, Cournal, Rigaud, the Intendant himself? [11]
He came to snatch old Soolsby's palace, his nest on the hill, to use it for a telescope, or such whimsies. [11]
It was uniquely situated; a nest among the hills, suitable either for work or play. [11]
He came to say farewell; he had his own nest to feather, and could do a more profitable business in the lowlands than up here in the forest. [10]
Last of all Ruth appeared; she led him into the forest to a juniper-bush, and showed him a nest full of young birds. [10]
Toward evening, both rowed to the Owl's Nest, taking the five talents with which the runaway wife intended to purchase freedom from her husband. [10]
Yes, he was right; the old pirate's shrill whistle reached his ear from the Owl's Nest, and he was accustomed to obedience. [10]
Then suddenly she remembered to whom she was speaking, and a flood of feeling ran through her; for Swift Wing had cherished her like a fledgeling in the nest till her young white man came from "down East. [11]
True, under the reign of Ptolemy I, the owners of the Owl's Nest were on the point of being deprived of this favour, because they were repeatedly accused of piracy in distant seas; but it had not been done. [10]
There 's no radical club like a nest of little folks in a nursery. [6]
He was in Philadelphia when he wrote the nest letter that has come down to us, and apparently satisfied with the change. [5]
Like birds of passage built we there a nest On a palm-shaded shore, all steeped in light, Life was a holiday, enjoyed with zest And grateful hearts, the while it winged its flight. [10]
Yet the official ordered the Owl's Nest to be searched. [10]
When power was once his, he would build her a beautiful, cosy nest with his share of the booty. [10]
A sitting hen on her nest is calm, but hopeful; she has faith that her eggs are not china. [4]
It is out of that moderate letter that the Eighty-Two Thousand-Dollar mare's nest has developed. [5]
The pocket-miners tell of one nest that yielded $60,000 and two men exhausted it in two weeks, and then sold the ground for $10,000 to a party who never got $300 out of it afterward. [5]
When a pair of cockatoos made a nest in an acacia tree, "it was ridiculous to see the extravagant interest taken in the matter by the others of the same species. [1]
I'll give my nose--true, it's only a small one, but everybody values that feature most--if they don't persuade him to leave that horrible crow's nest in the middle of the sea. [10]
Then upon the nest smallest sum. [5]
Where does your nest of robbers hang? [10]
But consider the nest of murderers that'll be let loose here when the Dakoon dies. [11]
There is a nest of brown houses, clustered together like bee-hives, into which the few inhabitants creep to hibernate in the long winters, and several shops, grand hotels, and bathing-houses open for the season. [4]
Behold, I build my nest in thy sails, excellency. [11]
As Pierre and Macavoy stood at their door, looking out upon the earth cleansing itself, Macavoy suddenly said: "Aw, look, look, Pierre--her white duck off to the nest on Champak Hill! [11]
There was a loft nearly full of hay, and I crawled up, and dug a hole far down against the side of the building, and climbed in, bringing with me for drink a nest of hen's eggs which I found in a corner. [11]
It was a little round plug about as thick as the end of your little finger, and I says to myself there's a di'mond in the nest you've come from. [5]
So the village lies like an egg in a nest open in one direction, like the beetle in the calyx of a flower which has lost one of its leaves. [10]
What could you learn of life, of art and artists, here in the weaver's nest in the midst of the waves? [10]
He has to learn his work by practice; a beaver, on the other hand, can make its dam or canal, and a bird its nest, as well, or nearly as well, and a spider its wonderful web, quite as well (6. [1]
It sometimes even lay in my way to climb a tree to look for a crow's nest, or to swing in the top, and to try if I could see the steeple of the village church. [4]
We took our last look at the city, clinging like a whitewashed wasp's nest to the hill-side, and at eight o'clock in the morning departed. [5]
She had never known her mother, she had lived as the flowers do, and when her hour of trial came she felt herself cast like a wandering bird out of the nest. [11]
These two he killed, and then left the nest. [1]
The hen's instinct is to be orderly, and have a secluded nest of her own, and bring up a family. [4]
When the winter is done I will come back home, To the nest swinging under and over, Swinging under and over and waiting for me, Your rover, my snow-bird, your lover-- My lover and rover, don, don! [11]
It was never intended for anything but a mere nest egg for the future and real appropriations to cluster around. [5]
Are we to infer from this fact that they construct a different sort of nest from that made by their nearest allies, and not liable to be injured by their spurs; so that the spurs have not been removed? [1]
George I., an infant of eighteen, and a scraggy nest of foreign office holders, sit in the places of Themistocles, Pericles, and the illustrious scholars and generals of the Golden Age of Greece. [5]
The cosiest nest in the world--aho! [11]
She was alone in the world like a tree without roots, like a leaf blown out to sea, like an unfledged bird that has fallen out of the nest. [10]
Here was I, in the very dove's nest of Puritan faith, and out of one of its eggs a serpent had been hatched and was trying to nestle in my bosom! [6]
We were born in the same nest almost. [11]
I have lain in the nest of the Swan, I have heard, I have known; When thine eyes too have seen, When thine ears too have heard, Thou shalt do with me then as thou wilt. [11]
I have lain in the nest of the Swan, I have heard, I have known; When thine eyes too have seen, When thine ears too have heard, Thou shalt do with me then as thou wilt! [11]
The paragraphs which I have written to-day, and into whose cold sentences your masterly hand has infused the fervent spirit of Tennesseean journalism, will wake up another nest of hornets. [5]
Wretched nest of human vermin about the fountain--rags, dirt, sunken cheeks, pallor of sickness, sores, projecting bones, dull, aching misery in their eyes and ravenous hunger speaking from every eloquent fibre and muscle from head to foot. [5]
What I deplore, Hodder, is that you've contrived to make a hornets' nest out of the most peaceful and contented congregation in America. [9]
He had spoiled his own household, destroyed his own peace, forsaken his own nest, outlived his hope and the possibility of further hope, except more business success, more to leave behind him. [11]
She had told him more than once about the healing art possessed by old Tabus on the Owl's Nest. [10]
Nurse Byloe let herself drop into a flaccid squab chair with one of those soft cushions, filled with slippery feathers, which feel so fearfully like a very young infant, or a nest of little kittens, as they flatten under the subsiding person. [6]
Yet she was here on the Owl's Nest to seek the aid of old Tabus's magic arts. [10]
Hoping to find her on the Owl's Nest with old Tabus, he then landed there, but had been so uncivilly rebuffed on the shore by a rough fellow that he might be glad to have escaped with sound limbs. [10]
Tell them,' said he, 'that my friends shall share my fortunes; that France needs us; that Pontiac shall be called the nest of heroes. [11]
Many things must happen before Biberli could honestly advise him to give up his present free and happy life and seek rest in his own nest. [10]
Yes, I was greatly surprised to find that my mare's nest was much in arrears: that this new science was well known in America under the name of Osteopathy. [5]
Jim allowed they'd got spoiled and was hove out of the nest. [5]
He is a gentleman who seldom pounces, but even the dove won't allow itself to be attacked in is own nest. [10]
A nest and four little birds. [13]
You trimmed him for the glorious company of the apostles, and see, he breakfasts with Monsieur Doltaire--in the Intendance, too, my Voban, which, as you know, is wicked--a very nest of wasps! [11]
They collect food for the community, and when an object, too large for entrance, is brought to the nest, they enlarge the door, and afterwards build it up again. [1]
Our teachers' love for all animate creation had made them impose bounds on the zeal of the egg-hunters, who were required always to leave one egg in the nest, and if it contained but one not to molest it. [10]

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