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Definition of Bobolinks
1. bobolink [n] - See also: bobolink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobolinks
Literary usage of Bobolinks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices by William Turner Coggeshall (1860)
"OUT of its fragrant heart of bloom— The bobolinks are singing ! Out of its fragrant
heart of bloom, The apple-tree whispers to the room, " Why art thou but ..."
2. Legislation for the Protection of Birds Other Than Game Birds by Theodore Sherman Palmer (1900)
"Comparatively few passerine birds are treated as game. Among these few, bobolinks
... The enormous numbers of bobolinks (Doli- ..."
3. Poems by William Dean Howells (1873)
"THE bobolinks ARE SINGING. OUT of its fragrant heart of bloom, — The bobolinks
are singing ! Out of its fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to ..."
4. Modern Italian Poets: Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells (1885)
"OUT of its fragrant heart of bloom, — The bobolinks are singing! Out of its
fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, " Why art thou but ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE bobolinks. [The Bird and the Bell, with other Poems. 1875.] WHEN Nature had
made all her birds, With no more cares to think on, She gave a rippling ..."
6. Letters of Celia Thaxter by Celia Thaxter (1895)
"She calls the sparrows "island bobolinks," for never anywhere has she heard them
so sing before. That is what I always say; nowhere else do you hear them so ..."
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