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We will be troubled no more either with cotyles or capsules, but recollect simply that Hirundo, [Greek: chelidôn], swallow, schwalbe, and hirondelle, are in each language the sufficing single words for the entire Hirundine race.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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German name, perhaps really still refers to this supposed nocturnal thieving; or may have fallen euphonious from Nacht-schwalbe, which in some places abides.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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