Sentences with phrase «cuckoos come»
Unlike most birds, female cuckoos come in different colours — it's all part of a strategy to avoid raising their own chicks
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The clock of his dreams, said Hillis in 1993, «ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium.»
Try timing it with this baby, which «ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium» — or will, when it's complete.
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I hear the words coming out of my mouth even as somewhere deep inside, I hear myself and I think this all sounds very cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.»
There is a line from Terry Pratchett's book Wyrd Sisters that comes to mind, «He had a mind like a clock, and like that clock it regularly went «cuckoo».»
The former and future Arsenal players will be trying to help the land of the cuckoo clock enjoy a successful summer tournament, where Xhaka will come up against a few of his new team mates as the Swiss have been drawn in the same Euro 2016 group as France.
The cuckoo clock is a time - honored timekeeping tradition, with the most famous choices coming from the Black Forest in Germany.
«The barring on their plumage helps cuckoos conceal themselves while searching for potential nests, then when they approach, the host of the nest may mistake a cuckoo for a raptor coming to get them — giving them unfettered access to lay eggs,» Gluckman said.
The cuckoo has come in and displaced the whole field of climate science.
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Mark your calendars: The follow - up to J.K. Rowling's crime fiction novel, The Cuckoo's Calling (published under pseudonym Robert Galbraith), is coming from Little, Brown on June 24.
Still, she was coming to a realization that accepting who she was would be the jailer's key to liberate her from this cuckoo's nest.
The Cuckoo's Calling, meanwhile, received a highly favorable review from Publisher's Weekly before its author's identity came to light.
One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.
Other titles to make the cut are backlist title My Sister's Keeper by Bill Benners (McBryde Publishing) coming in fifth position, The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling, Little Brown) and Bloody Valentine by James Patterson (Cornerstone).
The Yellow - billed Cuckoo seen here came to the Project Wildlife in 2008.
The bird used to be known as the European cuckoo (because they come from there) and they're seldom seen or heard in South Africa, although their staple diet is the hairy black and white caterpillars typically found in acacia trees.
Anyone who insists otherwise (that it comes from the ocean — despite the isotopic evidence, budget and direct measurements of increasing ocean carbon) is living in cloud - cuckoo land.