By the edge of the growing corn is heard, iterative and wearisome, the "crake," "crake" of the corn-crake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

Iffen yu downt gibs me noms now, I will kills dis cup crake dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ur offering is grossly inadiquitz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

The crake is quarrelsome, clever at making a living, but in other ways an unlucky bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Now and again a corn-crake, moving in silence, bowed to the ground, but betrayed by its loquacity.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

With bills under his arm and crake in hand, he went from house-row to house-row calling the miners out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference

Typical island introductions such as rats, dogs, and cats may be harming the endemic Andaman crake (Rallina canningi).    From Wordnik.com.  [Andaman Islands rain forests] Reference

"That your voice was as unmusical as a corn crake with a bad cold, that your poems were funnier than Lewis Carroll --".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body Ricardo] Reference

Now let them go and crake, how wisely they have sped.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference

When the crake that long mocked us fled light at the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Wolfings] Reference

The second: "Let her voice be as harsh as a corn-crake's.".    From Wordnik.com.  [English Fairy Tales] Reference

Only a few bird terms are commonly known: auk, (corn) crake, dove.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference

"Creek -- creek," sang the landrail or meadow-crake, apparently a quarter of a mile off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home] Reference

From out of the darkness in the direction of Stapleton sounded the monotonous note of a corn-crake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pothunters] Reference

crake! crake! nearly day and night; but now the rattle begins, and the bird must take refuge in the corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

Thence the call has come without a moment's pause, "crake, crake," till the thick hedge seems filled with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

Buffon, however, takes it with the land-rail; Gould and Yarrell put it between the little crake and water-hen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference

In the narrowest part of the wood between the hedge and the river a corncrake called his loudest "crake, crake," incessantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Fields] Reference

"Oh, my good Lord," groaned one of the volunteers, "it's the crake, master!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Stars] Reference

A Speckled crake, perhaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Ruddy-breasted crake & seedeater 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breasted Birds] Reference

The corn-crake nested in the unmown field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

  And from its nest the wakening corn-crake flew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

He only heard the toads cry to one another, feeling rain coming, "crake! crake! crake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference

‘I had lever to crake thy crowne.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gest of Robyn Hode. The Thirde Fytte] Reference

But windy calls of quail and crake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bog Lands] Reference

And ravenous wilds, and crake-like cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

And flood the haunts of hern and crake.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Memoriam (excerpt)] Reference

And Aethiops of their sweet complexion crake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Labour Lost (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

And from its nest the waking corn-crake flew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charmides] Reference

Without he crake and boste therof before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ship of Fools, Volume 1] Reference

crake! crake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference

Landrail or corn-crake 1033.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Corn-crake, 186.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

“Cree-crake! cree-crake!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference