"Hoopoo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... season few insects but grasshoppers are to be seen, even mosquitos being rare. Birds, however, abound, and we noticed the common sparrow, hoopoe, water-wagtail, ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... the note Of Nisami, and heard in his leisure The hoopoe's weird monody float, And set it to ...
— Enamels and Cameos and other Poems • Theophile Gautier
... forehead and rubbed my eyes, thinking that I must have fallen into a dream there in the sunshine. When I lifted it again all was the same as before. There stood the sentry, indifferent to that which had no interest for him; the cock that had moulted its tail still scratched in the dirt; the crested hoopoe still sat spreading its wings on the head of one of the two great statues of Rameses which watched the gate; a water-seller in the distance still cried his wares, but the stranger was gone. Then I knew that I had been dreaming and turned to go ...
— Moon of Israel • H. Rider Haggard |
