Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the nightfowl crow: The cock sung out an hour ere light
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Nightfowl
//ˈnaɪt.faʊl//
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Sample sentences
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Now this wilderness was so utterly waste that not even the barking of a dog or the sound of a nightfowl could be heard.
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He could see the ghostly outline of the distant peaks of the mountains, he could hear the haunting cries of nightfowl and coyote; but these things failed to interest him.
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An eagle? No, that could scarcely be; eagles were not nightfowl, nor would one descend this close to humans.
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