Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockiers
Literary usage of Rockiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"'Among them [the wood-pigeons] were little parties of small blue doves, which ho
calls rockiers.'—White's Nat. Hist. of Selborne, Letter xliv. ..."
2. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1906)
"... that often there were among them little parties of small blue doves, which he
calls rockiers. The food of these numberless emigrants was beech-mast and ..."
3. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1898)
"... his head : he moreover adds, which I was not aware of, that often there were
among them little parties of small blue doves, which he calls rockiers. ..."
4. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"... wood-pigeons] wore little parties of small blue doves, which ho calls
rockiers.'—White's Nut. Hi,t. of Selborne, Letter xliv. ..."
5. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White (1901)
"... that often there were among them little parties of small blue doves, which he
calls rockiers.2 The food of these numberless emigrants was beech-mast and ..."
6. The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton by Gilbert White (1906)
"... over his head: he moreover adds, which I was not aware of, that often there
were among them little parties of small blue doves, which he calls rockiers. ..."
7. Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds by George Montagu, James Rennie (1831)
"... abounded in the beech woods near that place ; and that amongst them were seen
little parties of small blue doves, which were there called rockiers. ..."
8. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: In the County of Southampton by Gilbert White, Edward Turner Bennett, James Edmund Harting (1891)
"He moreover adds, which I was not aware of, that often there were among them
little parties of small blue doves, which he calls rockiers.3 The food of these ..."
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