nightingale
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Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023
It was on Hampstead Heath that John Keats pondered the beauty of nature, nightingale song and mortality.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021
Face masks made of nightingale faeces, used by elite Japanese women for centuries, are one of the stranger beautifying techniques currently resurgent in western salons.
From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019
The book has the line “for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.”
From The Verge • May 30, 2019
The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said that the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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