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  • I heard no other sound; but when the lull came, there was the wash of a heavy river, or a crack as of artillery that told of landslips, or the plaintive cry of the peesweep as it rose in the air, trying to entice the waters away from its nest.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • With this improved health everything becomes tolerable, even to the peesweep Sereetha (for we are still without other help).

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

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