Bulbul

Hereupon two damsels came forward, by name Bulbul and Siwad al-'Ayn, who were comely and graceful and the principals among the Princess's women, and her favourites.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Lusciola Luscinia is not Lusciola Philomela, one of the various birds called Bulbul in the East.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

It has been lately related that there was formerly a sovereign of the East who had three sons, the eldest of whom had heard some traveller describe a particular country where there was a bird called Bulbul al Syach, who transformed any passenger who came near him into stone.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

It has been lately related that there was formerly a sovereign of the East who had three sons, the eldest of whom had heard some traveller describe a particular country where there was a bird called Bulbul al Syach, who transformed any passenger who came near him into stone.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 04 Anonymous 1791

Hereupon two damsels came forward, by name Bulbul and Siwad al-‘Ayn, who were comely and graceful and the principals among the

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Quoth she, "O gentle lady, the first thing is the Speaking-Bird, called Bulbul-i - hazßr-dßstßn; [FN#361] he is very rare and hard to find but, whenever he poureth out his melodious notes, thousands of birds fly to him from every side and join him in his harmony.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Through.] [Footnote 8: "Bulbul" is the Persian for nightingale.

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

There has been a family of Ashy Tailorbirds and of course, the prolific Yellow-vented Bulbul, which usually chooses a pot-plant on the veranda.

Birds in the garden Glenda Larke 2010

There has been a family of Ashy Tailorbirds and of course, the prolific Yellow-vented Bulbul, which usually chooses a pot-plant on the veranda.

Archive 2010-03-01 Glenda Larke 2010

We stared at each other in disbelief, he because I was still looking like Abdul the Bulbul, and I because in place of the stalwart, brisk commander I'd known ten years ago there was now a haggard, sunken ancient; with his grimy, grizzled face, his uniform coat torn and filthy, and his breeches held up with string, he looked like a dead gardener.

Fiancée 2010