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  • Or perhaps males of the national bird of Paraguay, the bare-throated bellbird, feel attracted to other male birds?

    Paraguay es en Sudamerica Richard Nokes 2006

  • Exclusive to the area are the bare-throated tiger-heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) and the continental subspecies of the yellow warbler (Dendroica petechia).

    Magdalena-Santa Marta mangroves 2008

  • It was closed; the heavy glass gave back only a dim reflection of herself, bare-armed, bare-throated, with spangles winking dully on her scarf.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • He had taken off his collar and tie, and rose, bare-throated, to go to bed.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • There were other drawings, if not all by the same hand, at least by the same school; one, sketched in bold strokes, of a dinner party in a stately neo-classic dining-room, the table laden with flowers and silver, the bare-throated women with jewels.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909

  • There were other drawings, if not all by the same hand, at least by the same school; one, sketched in bold strokes, of a dinner party in a stately neo-classic dining-room, the table laden with flowers and silver, the bare-throated women with jewels.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • He had taken off his collar and tie, and rose, bare-throated, to go to bed.

    Sons and Lovers 1907

  • He liked to feel the wind tugging at sleeves and cap, and he leaned against it, bare-throated and bare-handed -- bareheaded, too, he would have been had not a carpenter, rods away on the cribbing, put out a hand to catch his cap as it tried to whirl past on a gust.

    Calumet "K" Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

  • On the roads and mountains could be seen rows of bare-throated boys with heads uncovered, staff in hand, and Alpine knapsack on the back, occupying their leisure with pleasure excursions that were at the same time, perhaps, a foresighted study.

    Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • It was the sight of the big, brown guns did it, and the cutlasses in their racks, and the clean - limbed, bare-throated Jackies, and the watch-officer stamping the deck just as though he were at sea, with his glass and side-arms.

    Captain Macklin Richard Harding Davis 1890

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