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Erna who has no nickname roosts implacably on a long iron bench, knees apart, watching over her charges.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

This may in some measure account for the overcrowded "roosts" which have been occasionally seen, but which are by no means common.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

The great "roosts" and breeding-places are favourite resorts for numerous birds of prey.

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

"roosts," sometimes for years together, to which each night they return from their distant excursions -- hundreds of miles, perhaps; for this is but a short fly for travellers who can pass over a mile in a single minute, and some of whom have even strayed across the Atlantic to

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850

Their only goal in life – truly – is to throw nuts in my general direction and chatter at me from their treetop roosts.

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For instance, the pipeline passes near many of the trees under whose bark the Indiana bat roosts in summer.

A Path to Simpler Permits Rob Curran 2010

Each morning the blackbirds awoke us with their chatter as they left their roosts to fly to the swamp.

Chapter 21 2010

Frick, who focuses on bats, said, for example, the radar data has helped determine that bats come out of their roosts earlier on hot days in dry years but later on hot days in wet years.

Weather radar clutter is boon to study birds, bugs and bats 2011

And through the long twilight the air was filled with their noise as they went back to their roosts.

Chapter 21 2010

They did not know, and he never told them, of the rabbits he had killed, of the quail, young and old, he had captured and devoured, of the farmers 'chicken-roosts he had raided, nor of the cave-lair he had made and carpeted with dry leaves and grasses and in which he had slept in warmth and comfort through the forenoons of many days.

When the World Was Young 2010