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
In 1924, the BBC recorded the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing in her garden accompanied by a nightingale.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2020
The book has the line “for the first time ever, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.”
From The Verge • May 30, 2019
I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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