Pigeon

(noun.) wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs.

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• Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems a very rash assumption. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I say, Sam, observed Humphrey when the old man was gone, she and Clym Yeobright would make a very pretty pigeon-pair--hey? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Mr. Pickwick, who had been deeply investigating the interior of the pigeon-pie, readily assented. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Four pigeon-breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Ah, pigeon-holes will not do. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He saw that pigeon-fanciers and stock-breeders deve lop certain types by preserving those variations that have the desired characteristics. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I observed that he did the same thing while I was getting out the remains of the pigeon-pie, and so forth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Once more on the road to Thornfield, I felt like the messenger-pigeon flying home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Now the tongue--now the pigeon pie. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Bucket's eye, after taking a pigeon-flight round the room, alights upon a table where letters are usually put as they arrive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• An ideal education would then supply the means of meeting these separate and pigeon-holed interests. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Another article which Father Porter sent me was an uncooked Jamaica pigeon; it was roasted at Beaumont College. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• By the by; you were quite a pigeon-fancier. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• There is also a Jamaica pigeon, also just cooked here, and a _vol au vent_, which I have had made from oysters which were sent open in the preserving stuff from Jamaica. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• In pigeon-holes partly, said Mr. Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• You have no tumblers among your pigeons. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I have reserved one of the pigeons raw, that you may see in what state it arrived. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Fanciers select their dogs, horses, pigeons, etc. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, they did not breed or willingly perch on trees. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• These pigeons are also kept in several European countries for military purposes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Fourthly, pigeons have been watched and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Here was a small rough hole in the mud wall, originally made for pigeons, through which the interior of the next shed could be viewed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• My sisters say she has diamonds as big as pigeons' eggs, George said, laughing. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• How do Carrier Pigeons Carry Messages? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Seventy-two miles in two and one-half hours, a hundred and eighty in four and one-half, have been accomplished by carrier pigeons. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Take a pair of tumbler-pigeons for them--little beauties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The pigeons and the steak have been preserved raw in stoppered bottles since the 21st of last November and the eggs since the 4th of July, 1881. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• There is no one who has not seen a magician put one or more pigeons into the drawer of one of these boxes, and after closing it open it to find that the birds have disappeared. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Some facts in regard to the colouring of pigeons well deserve consideration. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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