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The men I hate are the pewits who want to pigeonhole the issue so they can sneak.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moors an' moors an' moors, wi' never a tree for shelter, an' grey houses wi' flagstone rooves, and pewits cryin', an' a windhover goin' to and fro just like these kites.

From Indian Tales by Kipling, Rudyard

In the second were all kinds of game and wild-fowl, roast herons three in a dish, bitterns, cranes, bustards, curlews, dotterels, and pewits.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Moors an' moors an' moors, wi' never a tree for shelter, an' gray houses wi' flagstone rooves, and pewits cryin', an' a windhover goin' to and fro just like these kites.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard

Since noon we've done nothing but pluck pheasants, pewits, wood-hens, and heath-cocks.

From In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)