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- noun Plural form of
twite .
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Examples
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But this autumn such sancturies fed the resident twites and house sparrows and shone in the warm sun, the grasses and leaves bending lightly beneath the creamy mild air from deep in the Atlantic.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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About ten years ago we imported a great number of birds from abroad -- yellow-hammers, chaffinches, green finches, red pales, twites, bullfinches, jays, linnets, larks -- some five hundred of them.
My Life and Work Henry Ford 1905
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Highlights: the golden eagles riding the thermals on the Oa reserve, the hen harriers, and the corn crakes, the twites, the linnets and other half-forgotten farmland birds and their calls.
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About ten years ago we imported a great number of birds from abroad ” yellow-hammers, chaffinches, green finches, red pales, twites, bullfinches, jays, linnets, larks ” some five hundred of them.
My Life and Work Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1922
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