throttle

Example Sentences

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Like the calling of throstles and blackies, in the evening, frightening the pale little wood-anemones, till they run panting and swaying right up to our wall.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Bird after bird took up the note until from every tree and shrub there swelled a grand chorus as larks and throstles poured forth their matin song of praise.

From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by De Land, Clyde Osmer

Skylarks wakkens up first, then curlews, then blackbirds, robins, throstles.

From More Tales of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William

The starlings whistled on the chimney stacks, and the throstles and robins sang—but they sang their own little noises, not the words they had sung in the night.

From The Tailor of Gloucester by Potter, Beatrix

The throstles have reached their song's last verse.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda