Nightingale

(noun.) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song.

(noun.) English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910).

录入:鲁道夫

• The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Jane, do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Seius gave for the nightingale the command of a quantity of labour and subsistence, equal to what ? 66:13: 4d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The nightingale, hitherto silent, now began its song, upon which the old man good-humoredly pushed Maurice to the door. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Wherefore the night is empty of singing to me: Lean from your lattice, capricious one, And I will sing the strain of the nightingale to the rose. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Becky, the nightingale, took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away, like a nightingale of the woods. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• What is the divine nightingale now singing? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• When her sweet voice died away, an emulous nightingale began to sing as if in rivalry, and Helena burst out into girlish laughter. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I have been talking to the Rector, and for the last few moments I have been watching you, my Attic nightingale. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I'll say 'nightingales' then, with Laurie. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• My nightingales should sing their sweetest here, if the tale of their love for the rose be true. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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