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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we taxied to a halt on the coastal grassy runway, we disturbed parties of curlew , sandpipers and grey plover.
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Below the wood, a curlew started from the grass and winged beneath us, its mate calling from across the dale.
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For the curlew , protection came too late.
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I could see a heron standing motionless, and a curlew dabbling by the shore.
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In all probability these late reports confuse the species with the Hudsonian curlew .
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No moor land is complete without its curlew overhead.
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She must be like the curlew , and concentrate all her energy on those who needed her.
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The last great flight of curlew landed on Cape Cod two decades later.