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Example sentences for "broods"

Lexicographically close words:
brooders; broodeth; brooding; broodingly; broodings; broody; brook; brooked; brooklet; brooklets
  1. He is named Myriad: And I am sad Often, and often I am glad; But oftener I am white With fear of the dim broods That are his multitudes.

  2. Hence, at certain hours, a profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race.

  3. In meridionalis the later broods are entirely different from the first.

  4. I suspect that the distribution of the broods through the year and the condition of the animal at the onset of hard frost are features which really determine whether a strain can live in a particular place or not.

  5. To these later broods the term napaeae is sometimes applied, but I here use meridionalis for the southern race in general as applicable to all broods.

  6. For such a climate some definite periodicity in the appearance of the broods may well be indispensable.

  7. In the later broods of napi there is much less general irroration of the veins, and the spots stand out as more defined and blacker.

  8. Love is a sea Filling all the abysses dim Of lornest space, in whose deeps regally Suns and their bright broods swim.

  9. The Dipper is an early breeder even in the northern shires, commencing to build at the end of March or early in April, and rearing several broods during the course of the season.

  10. We retain many vivid remembrances of the actions of broods of Dippers that we have unexpectedly disturbed.

  11. Heaven broods o'er you with stars aglow, The hearts of Night is beating low, Wokanda watches o'er Wohelo.

  12. Waiting the Prince and his awakening kiss, A hush broods over Castle Innocence.

  13. They nest at low elevations in mesquites or cacti, laying their first sets in March and early April and usually raising two broods a season; their three or four eggs are dull whitish, spotted and blotched with brownish drab and lilac gray.

  14. Their two white eggs are laid during April to July, they sometimes rearing two broods a season.

  15. They raise several broods a year, commencing in April when they lay from three to six pale bluish white eggs (rarely pure white); size .

  16. Like the latter, they often raise two broods a season, one in April and another in July.

  17. They are very prolific breeders, raising two broods in a season, each set of eggs containing from ten to twenty.

  18. Often two or three broods are raised in a season, but frequently one or more broods are destroyed by rainy weather.

  19. Their nesting season includes all the summer months, they raising two and sometimes three broods a season.

  20. Like the last, they generally raise two broods a season.

  21. They raise two or three broods a year, the first set of eggs being laid early in April; the eggs are creamy white, dotted, so thickly as to obscure the ground color, with pale reddish brown.

  22. Two broods are raised a season and from May to August sets of four or five plain bluish white eggs may be found.

  23. Eggs may be found at any time from May until July or August as they raise several broods a season.

  24. Their eggs are plain white, without markings; often several broods are raised in a season and eggs may be found from May until August.

  25. They raise two broods a season and sometimes three, laying the first set of eggs in March and another in June or July.

  26. Their eggs which are laid during May, June or July (probably two broods being raised) are similar to those of the Slate-colored species but slightly larger.

  27. If a pair have two broods in a season, they almost always build a new one for each family.

  28. These are probably all of one family, the parents and their two broods of the year.

  29. Some one, Mr. Brehm, I think, tells a pretty story about a certain kind of duck who rears two broods every season.

  30. By means of retaining sperm successive broods possibly are produced after only one mating.

  31. Florida, that produced broods of 14 and 12 young in two consecutive years.

  32. The 4-7 finely speckled eggs are laid as early as March, and several broods are raised.

  33. Half fledged broods may be found blind as bats from fighting, and only waiting for the least glimmer of sight to be at it again.

  34. There are always two broods in the year, the first scattering over the country and eventually straggling away in small migratory parties across the sea, the second going with their parents in the great annual exodus in October.

  35. Here and there are broods hatched too young to join in the great Hegira, and here and there nestlings with some infirmity that unfits them for boisterous travel.

  36. They rear in nearly every case two broods a year; that is to say, there are every year five times as many blackbirds as the year before.

  37. This in all probability is a great advantage, as the early breeders have the start in securing food, and the young are strong enough to protect themselves while the later broods are being produced.

  38. A solemn stillness broods there; for the feet of the profane keep far away, and none may tread the valley-lawns but those who have been purified.

  39. Then among the shallows at the head of the loch there is many a wild pull after broods of flappers, and random firing at the circling curlew.

  40. And there can be no dispute whatever that these early broods found just as much growth and benefit in the substance as Mr. Bensington's hens.

  41. The moon broods high and full O'er the broken Psyche cold, And there she stands her dainty hands And thin wrists warm with gold.

  42. While a moist, rank, stifling, dead perfume Of rotting timbers and rotting grain, And roofs all warped with the sun and rain Makes of the stagnant air a cell, In the haunted chambers broods like a spell?

  43. All at once the air seems stricken motionless, and over the solitude broods a solemn silence.

  44. The female lays from ten to twelve eggs in a hole in the sand; she broods over them during the night, occasionally leaving them in the hottest part of the day.

  45. The shadow of that severe resolve still broods about the place for me.

  46. I can only say that for me a deep mystery broods over the record.

  47. There would be little or nothing to shoot, a few cock birds to pick out of the broods and some sundries, of course.

  48. Some broods would, perhaps, jump up, with one or two miserable chirpers in addition to one old bird, and barren birds also were plentiful.

  49. Before the 12th, with the exception of a few broods on the rough ground, there was practically, so to speak, not a bird left upon the grouse ground.

  50. During the first fortnight David and I hunted the whole of the ground, killing the old cocks out of the broods when opportunity occurred.

  51. The increase of birds was very satisfactory, quite 150 broods on the ground, and fine broods too.

  52. In August he again hunted, and came across exactly the same number of broods as he had found pairs.

  53. Thou couldst not learn, Though I might teach thee; To thee there is nothing plain Till day has dawned on the deed, Wonted things Thou alone canst conceive, Whereas my spirit broods On things not yet brought forth.

  54. Siegmund sinks down on to a couch beside the fire and broods forsome time silently in great agitation.

  55. And being dead, and powerless to recover The substance of the show whereon we gaze, Shall we be likened to the hapless lover, Who broods upon the unreturning days?

  56. Some of them, like the broods of young birds of different species which come together in the autumn, are entirely given to share in common the joys of life.

  57. The young broods gather in societies of youngsters, generally including several species.

  58. Their inclinations are towards family life, and Brehm found that a family of squirrels is never so happy as when the two broods of the same year can join together with their parents in a remote corner of a forest.

  59. Let me only remark that a division into groups, similar to Morgan's Hawaian, exists among birds; the young broods live together separately from their parents.


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