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"Migrant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... practically replaced red-breast. The martin is in French martinet, and the name may have been given in allusion to the southward flight of this swallow about Martinmas; but the king-fisher, not a migrant bird, is called martin-pecheur, formerly also martinet pecheur or oiseau de Saint-Martin, so that martin may be due to some other association. Sometimes the double name survives. We no longer say Philip sparrow, but Jack ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... found out why the spot had such an unearthly loveliness. Here love had tarried for a moment like a migrant bird that happens on a ship in mid-ocean and for a little while folds its tired wings. The fragrance of a beautiful passion hovered over it like the fragrance of hawthorn in May in the meadows of my home. It seems to me that the places where men have loved or suffered ...
— The Trembling of a Leaf - Little Stories of the South Sea Islands • William Somerset Maugham |
Words linked to "Migrant" : colonist, traveler, evacuee, migrant shrike, rusher, emigre, emigree, settler, traveller, emigrant, departer |
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