killdee

Example sentences from the Web for killdee

• He ran along before the children as nimbly as a killdee, talking and laughing all the time.

  Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country |Joel Chandler Harris

• The meadow larks call from the pasture, and overhead the killdee pipes his plaintive call.

  Byways Around San Francisco Bay |William E. Hutchinson

• The Blackfeet names for the killdee and for the big curlew are in imitation of the cry of each bird.

  Jack the Young Trapper |George Bird Grinnell