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- But she,rememberingheroldruinedhalland all thewindyclamourof the daws about herhollowturret
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See more results » (Definition ofdawfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofdawdaw All about this lusty rogue dangled divers pouches and bags of different sizes and kinds, a dozen or more, with great, wide, gaping mouths, like a brood of hungry daws.FromProject Gutenberg Dawhas been fighting for tougher regulations on payday lenders for years.FromWashington Times But today it is all a crumbling heap; ivy, rooks and daws hold the place in fee, each pushing hard for sole possession.FromProject Gutenberg You must not wear your heart upon your sleeve, or daws will peck at it.FromProject Gutenberg The last would prove fallacious, and expose you to the reproach of thedawin borrowed feathers.FromProject Gutenberg The sun came out and came out and came out; birds chirruped in the hedgerows and the daws in the high poplars called and scolded.FromProject Gutenberg He had cast out his heart for the rooks and the daws.FromProject Gutenberg To peck like daws at one so far above them, so divinely far above them!FromProject Gutenberg They do not wear their heart in their sleeve for daws to peck at.FromProject Gutenberg The daws may peck upon one's sleeve without injury, but whoever wears his heart upon his tympanum gets it not far from the neck.FromProject Gutenberg Women are like daws; their sympathy comes but to peck.FromProject Gutenberg My heart is bedded in a crust of flint, and nodawshall peck at it.FromProject Gutenberg Till the rooks and daws whirled clamoring and screaming.FromProject Gutenberg A couple of daws flew round the battlements of the tower, they cawed and screamed, and told one another that underneath there stood a sportsman who was seeking his game.FromProject Gutenberg All about this lusty rogue dangled divers pouches and bags of different sizes and kinds, a dozen or more, with great, wide, gaping mouths, like a brood of hungry daws.FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/daw## |