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Definition of Cygnets
1. cygnet [n] - See also: cygnet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cygnets
Literary usage of Cygnets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... of the Royal Game of Swans and cygnets throughout England. London, Printed in
1664. Quarto, containing six Pages. ..."
2. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"BLACK SWANS A\D cygnets. From Living Animals of the World period of moult is
practically helpless, it being then an easy matter to row them down and ..."
3. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"There were 40 Swans and 2 cygnets between London and Ditton, 39 Swans and 12
cygnets between Ditton and Staines, 65 Swans and 25 cygnets between Staines and ..."
4. Stray Notes on Fishing and Natural History by Cornwall Simeon (1860)
"Anecdotes in point— Sand-martins at Weybridge—Swallows kitted by Parasites—Swan
feeding cygnets—Cock-turkey as Nurse— Disposition of Egg-shells in Nests of ..."
5. May Blossoms by Lilian, Lilian Taylor (1890)
"The boats moored on the water's edge ; The arbor on the shore ; The vine-clad
rock upon the hill,— (And I have n't made any more.) THE cygnets. ..."
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