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Definition of Nightingales
1. nightingale [n] - See also: nightingale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightingales
Literary usage of Nightingales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"And through His words the nightingales' We kissed so close, we could not vow ...
The nightingales, the nightingales. " 0 cold white moonlight of the North, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"LARKS AND nightingales A LONE I sit at eventide: The twilight glory pales, ...
We have no leas, no larks, no rooks, No swains, no nightingales, ..."
3. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"FROM LUIS DE GONGORA —NOT ALL nightingales THEY are not all sweet nightingales,
That fill with songs the flowery vales; But they are little silver bells, ..."
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