hoodoo

Example Sentences

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At her approach a hoopoo rose and flew away above the trees.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

You must call your son Roh as well, so that every hoopoo may have his topknot.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

The hoopoo: "He that shows no mercy, shall not obtain mercy."

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

Would I had given my heart to a hoo— Oo-ting wood-owl, cuckoo, woodcock, hoopoo!

From Birds and Man by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

The bulbuls warble from the thorn-bushes, and a crested hoopoo croons in a jujube-tree.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry