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Definition of Nestlers
1. nestler [n] - See also: nestler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestlers
Literary usage of Nestlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"... travellers in that region would do service to science by bringing home a few
valves, that it may be found how far the small nestlers correspond, ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1833)
"... and laughing, would draw her little nestlers closer to her womanly bosom, and
so answer the good man. often roused others from a darker slumber than ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"These are mostly true borers, but others are nestlers that find shelter in the
holes made by the boring species ..."
4. Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan Shells in the British Museum by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1857)
"Like other nestlers (unlike the true borers, which are moderately constant in
form) it is extremely irregular. Many well characterized species might be made ..."
5. American Journal of Conchology by George Washington Tryon, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Conchological Section (1871)
"Found four more species in the cavities made by borers in the clay-rock, making
in all nine borers and five nestlers. Sept. 24th. Dredged in afternoon for ..."
6. Making Advertisements and Making Them Pay by Roy Sarles Durstine (1920)
"The rut-nestlers welcomed the word camouflage when it arrived from France —
welcomed it, ran it into every possible piece of copy, twisted it this way and ..."
7. Life in Washington: And Life Here and There by Mary Jane Windle (1859)
"... and decked our foreheads like would-be duchesses; again we take the "pet seat,"
and tell long stories from fairy-books to the little nestlers around us, ..."
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