nightingales

That night, in my villa above “the road of the great Moor-killing,” the nightingales were the only _serenos_.

The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

The spring wind sighs in these forests, and the nightingales are my friends.

The Proud Prince 1898

The song of the nightingales was a full unceasing throb.

Farina George Meredith 1868

The song of the nightingales was a full unceasing throb.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

The song of the nightingales was a full unceasing throb.

Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

"nightingales" -- the lyric poets as opposed to the epic.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Elegant 'nightingales' of that sort cost a little more than the others, because they are printed on hand-made paper, but they nearly all of them come down at last to the banks of the Seine.

Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Elegant 'nightingales' of that sort cost a little more than the others, because they are printed on hand-made paper, but they nearly all of them come down at last to the banks of the Seine.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824

"Two hundred of _Le Petit Vieillard de Calais_, but to sell them I was obliged to cry down two books which pay in less commission, and uncommonly fine 'nightingales' they are now.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824

"Two hundred of _Le Petit Vieillard de Calais_, but to sell them I was obliged to cry down two books which pay in less commission, and uncommonly fine 'nightingales' they are now.

Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824