Usage examples for kingfisher
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If the professor had said that he saw the blackbird dive head first into the water for the fish, after the manner of the kingfisher, I should have been very skeptical. – Ways of Nature by John Burroughs
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An old kingfisher used to sit on a limb over the still water and watch for minnows,- a blue and white fellow with a sharp beak. – The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by F. Hopkinson Smith
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We soon made her out to be a man- of- war, and on exchanging signals she proved to be the Kingfisher sloop- of- war. – Hurricane Hurry by W.H.G. Kingston