Diamond never saw the bird but did describe its thrush-like song (Diamond 1975).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

"Unless you marry him," the countess interrupted, ending with a thrush-like laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference

This western bird is gray and thrush-like with a long tail and a white eye ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

Save in color, they presented a decidedly thrush-like appearance, and their manners were also thrush-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The rich contralto thrush-like melody, with its ever recurring "sol-la," "sol-la," fills the woodlands with beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Spring Days in Iowa] Reference

We cannot expect in a modern poet the thrush-like improvisation, the impulsively bewitching cadences, that charm us in our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

The latter were twittering in every tree, while to this goodly accompaniment the sparrows were singing their loud, clear, thrush-like song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

All her glow had faded -- she was a dun thrush-like creature, clothed in semi-tints; yet she seemed much nearer than when her smile shot light on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

We had foxes begging for dinner scraps, horneros (a rufousy thrush-like bird) trying to steal our breakfast, and usually everybody trying to snag our lunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The thrush, astonished, but thrush-like to the last, stood motionless where he had stopped, his body drawn to a point, bill slightly open and turned toward the bold intruder.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Nesting Time] Reference

The long-tailed brown thrashers, lovers of the undergrowth, are still more thrush-like in look, but in our classifications they hold the position of giant cousins to the wrens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

Every now and then too, thrush-like birds flew up from beneath the bushes -- thrush-like in form but with plumage in which fawn or dove colour and celestial blues preponderated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track] Reference

The song of the fox sparrow has at times an almost thrush-like quality; and the bird himself, as he flies up in front of you, might easily be mistaken for some member of that noble family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

Such use might conceivably strengthen the bill or increase its size, but not cause a special tooth-like outgrowth which was not present in the ancestral thrush-like forms of the butcher-bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

Margot was no great performer, but what she could play she played by heart, and Nature had provided her with a sweet, thrush-like voice, with that true musical thrill which no teaching can impart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Game A Story for Girls] Reference

The cathedral singers came at last, and that kenspeckle red head of Will Harewood's directed her to the less conspicuous locks belonging to Lance, whose own clear thrush-like note she could catch as he passed beneath the screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference

Martin Davies 'The Conjurer's Bird wraps two stories around a handful of intriguing historical facts: A thrush-like bird, called here the "Mysterious Bird of Ulieta," was discovered on James Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772-1775).    From Wordnik.com.  [book-blog.com] Reference

How strange it is that a bird, under the form of a woodpecker, should prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese which rarely or never swim, should possess webbed feet; that a thrush-like bird should dive and feed on sub-aquatic insects; and that a petrel should have the habits and structure fitting it for the life of an awk! and so in endless other cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion] Reference

Metallic-armoured lizards darted over the dry sand to hide amongst the scattered blocks of sun-baked coral, lovely butterflies and other insects flitted amongst low growth, in company with tiny sun-birds which seemed clothed in brilliant burnished mail, and at every few steps larger birds, perfectly new to the visitors, took flight or hurried thrush-like to take refuge beneath the bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy] Reference

And the loved one altogether;” and the thrush-like overture, closing ” “What of the leafage, what of the flower?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning]

And the loved one altogether; "and the thrush-like overture, closing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

'Twas her thrush-like song I heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bon Gaultier Ballads] Reference

Inhabited by the 11 (or so) species of moa (future blog post to come on that), the long-beaked kiwis, snipes and snipe-rails, the bizarre adzebills, a variety of rails and coots, flightless ducks and geese, giant terrestrial owlet-nightjars, diminutive New Zealand wrens, and a motley assortment of crows, quails, mergansers, parrots, wattlebirds, thrush-like passerines, owls, honeyeaters and herons, it would appear to be the ideal place for birds of prey to evolve, and to take predatory advantage of this diverse avifauna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference