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- noun Plural form of
swift .
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Examples
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They live on the ground among rocks in dry places and are called swifts on account of the speed with which they are able to get over the ground.
Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas
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Among this number are swallows, incapable of walking and seeking their prey, and the birds called swifts [1651] who live on little insects carried about by the air.
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He also likes stepped couplets and quick-fire bursts of poems in short, matched forms, like the ten 8-line "swifts" in Where's the Moon ....
Christopher Lydon: Poet-Critic Dan Chiasson, the Natural (AUDIO) 2010
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He told his audience it was "immoral" to design buildings without eaves for nesting birds such as swifts and swallows, and that without the birds "there is no point to life, literally."
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He told his audience it was "immoral" to design buildings without eaves for nesting birds such as swifts and swallows, and that without the birds "there is no point to life, literally."
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He told his audience it was "immoral" to design buildings without eaves for nesting birds such as swifts and swallows, and that without the birds "there is no point to life, literally."
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Just some of the design features which would encourage biodiversity in cities are specially made nesting bricks built into cavity walls for birds such as swifts and starlings, or ledges that mimic cliff faces for peregrine falcons which are attracted to tall buildings.
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Just some of the design features which would encourage biodiversity in cities are specially made nesting bricks built into cavity walls for birds such as swifts and starlings, or ledges that mimic cliff faces for peregrine falcons which are attracted to tall buildings.
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Just some of the design features which would encourage biodiversity in cities are specially made nesting bricks built into cavity walls for birds such as swifts and starlings, or ledges that mimic cliff faces for peregrine falcons which are attracted to tall buildings.
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The moor was pale green and glowing under the azure blue sky, swifts darting black after flies, brown butterflies fluttering low.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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