Crossword-Solution: CUCKOOS 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

From the recesses of this knot of foliage the loud notes of three cuckoos were resounding through the still air.

Everybody speaks ill of us both, and everybody is glad to see both of us again." "Yes, Jasper, but there is some difference between men and cuckoos; men have souls, Jasper!" "And why not cuckoos, brother?" "You should not talk so, Jasper; what you say is little short of blasphemy.

That was his most perfect idea of heaven’s happiness: mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy.

Perhaps by next spring things may be better; but of this you may be quite sure, no amount of cuckoos will ever persuade the flowers in that nook to be anything but what nature intended them to be—sweet little daffodils.

Since Cuckoos forward not our early spring Nor help with notes to bring our harvest in, And since while here, she only makes a noise So pleasing unto none as girls and boys, The Formalist we may compare her to, For he doth suck our eggs and sing Cuckoo." A perusal of this little volume with its roughness and quaintness, sometimes grating on the ear but full of strong thought and picturesque images, cannot fail to raise Bunyan's pretensions as a poet.