1 And furthermore, the Prince had a nightingale, who could sing in such a manner that it seemed as though all sweet melodies dwelt in her little throat.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SWINEHERD 2 So the Princess was to have the rose, and the nightingale; and they were accordingly put into large silver caskets, and sent to her.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SWINEHERD 3 So the nightingale came forth and sang so delightfully that at first no one could say anything ill-humored of her.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SWINEHERD 4 Jorindel turned to see the reason, and beheld his Jorinda changed into a nightingale, so that her song ended with a mournful jug, jug.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In JORINDA AND JORINDEL 5 She mumbled something to herself, seized the nightingale, and went away with it in her hand.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In JORINDA AND JORINDEL 6 The man, hearing nothing more, stood erect, and while Monte Cristo was completing his disguise had advanced straight to the secretary, whose lock was beginning to crack under his nightingale.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 82. The Burglary. 7 She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away like a nightingale of the woods.
8 There's a bird on the lawn that I think must be a nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line.
9 Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.
10 I was dazed and stupid with pain and terror and weakness, but the sound of the nightingale seemed like the voice of my dead mother come back to comfort me.
11 To families divided by questions of money and inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP 12 A nightingale comes to the clump of acacias opposite your windows, every spring.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 13 I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee.
14 nightingale or the lark, though, in general, the American.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 15 Likewise nightingales were warbling from the recesses of the foliage, and some wood tulips were glowing yellow in the grass.