roosting-place

Here is a description by John James Audobon of a roosting-place, where the hunters waited to slaughter these graceful, gentle, slightly comical-looking birds:

Archive 2007-09-01 Heather McDougal 2007

Here is a description by John James Audobon of a roosting-place, where the hunters waited to slaughter these graceful, gentle, slightly comical-looking birds:

The Song of the Passenger Pigeon Heather McDougal 2007

One corner of this being separated off for the roosting-place of my little poultry, either she or I shall never want a pretence to go thither.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Flocks of birds, a kind of troupial, were flying past me overhead, flock succeeding flock, on their way to their roosting-place, uttering as they flew a clear, bell-like chirp; and there was something ethereal too in those drops of melodious sound, which fell into my heart like raindrops falling into a pool to mix their fresh heavenly water with the water of earth.

Green Mansions 2004

And every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen; and spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately clung to the hemp, as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place for their homeless selves.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Now he felt keen winds, and now warm breezes; now he passed a company of storms marching down upon the earth; or a lightning or two straggling back again to the skies; or a thunder riding a cloud; or a troop of hail rushing to battle with a deal of bluster and fury; or a crowd of snows looking for colder weather and a roosting-place.

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

At first Zöe's roosting-place was under the curved piece of bark lying on the floor of her cage, but after a time she took up her nightly quarters in a small box which hooked on to the side of her cage.

Wild Nature Won By Kindness Elizabeth Brightwen

From the tomb of the infamous tyrant grew a gigantic walnut-tree, the roosting-place of innumerable crows, supposed to be demons that haunted the evil place.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

At one end of this certain ladder-like stairs conducted to the loft, which had served Jim for a "roosting-place" ever since he had grown big enough to be trusted o 'nights so far away from his mother.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

The ravine was lighted up as though by enchantment, and the unexpected illumination caused an alarm among the group of pirates, not unlike that of an owl into whose gloomy roosting-place a torch is suddenly intruded.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various