“These little brown snipe you call woodcock, ” he began; “we bagged nine brace, d’you see?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Chance] Reference

The woodcock is a melancholy bird, and somewhat misanthropic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches] Reference

(A bird called the woodcock, with 360-degree vision, would be good at it.).    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The woodcock is a very handsome bird with its dark mottled brown plumage, long bill, and large, full, black eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The little bird in the middle with the long beak has been known as the woodcock, but I notice it has nostrils in the end of that beak--?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal toys] Reference

The woodcock is a creature of habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodcock of Broadway: Part II] Reference

Actually, the rendering 'woodcock' is incorrect, at least as bird names go in Great Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polymorphic Peter Pan] Reference

Up flies the bouncing woodcock from the brig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passion and Romantic Poetics] Reference

Well-camouflaged birds such as woodcock, shorebirds and grassland sparrows eschew bright colors in favor of visual and vocal displays.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

I cannot see the bird, but I know it is a woodcock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

The woods contain turkeys, pheasants, quail and woodcock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

One swallow makes not a spring, nor one woodcock a winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Book of Indoor Games] Reference

The Corbijeau is as large as the woodcock, and very common.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

One was a trifle shorter than Beverly and plump as a woodcock.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dixie School Girl] Reference

"We are full late for the woodcock, and the partridges are not yet ready.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

A very woodcock would puzzle him in carving, and he wants the logick of a capon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

I'd rather be bucketed about by EVELYN WOOD for a week than face another woodcock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference

There were woodcock left in the marshes; he had seen them -- by accident, I guessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Scotch woodcock and ale, the Painter was impelled to express the sense of the meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

It was delicious, as were also the samli, the woodcock, the lamb cutlets and the ice-cream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

Birds abound on Exmoor; snipe and woodcock, partridge and black-game, plover and wild-duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

The Snipe is much more common than the woodcock, and in this country is far from being shy.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

I will give an instance of this in the case of a woodcock kept in an aviary somewhere in Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

It reverberated like the drumming of a woodcock that comes to the ear from four quarters at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

Though one of the best gunners in the world, he was a bad shot at a hare, a woodcock, or a partridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference

"Is it not a difficult thing to tell the difference between the male and female woodcock?" asked Willy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

If not, begin about the woodcock you saw last week, or the woodcock somebody else missed the week before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference

Snipe are similar to woodcock, and may be served in the same manner; they will require less time to roast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference

There is one very interesting point in the natural history of the woodcock which I must not forget to mention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

In the continuing dream, the dripping dog, Clutter, runs up with the lifeless body of the woodcock in his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPACT] Reference

Chakor, large vulture, ravens; a woodcock rose from a dripping rock, covered with a tropical Andropogon in dense patches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Among my notes I find this: “Dec. 5, 1872, we saw about a dozen woodcock in Bird-Hag Wood, but only three were shot.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

They also frequent pine woods and heather on the hills, and are identical in appearance with the woodcock found in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

By Jupiter! we don't get our money's worth out of you if you're going to cut and run before a poor, weak, harmless woodcock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference

Oranges cut into halves are used as a garnish for dishes of small birds, such as pigeons, quail, woodcock, squabs, snipe, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference