Lapwings Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4 Lapwings Quotes
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“Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode, And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er The lofty palace then his own no more.”
James Beattie Quotes
Source: Vergil (pastoral 6)
“The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: The Parlement of Fowles (l. 47)
“Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 44)
“Now begin; For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing runs Close by the ground, to hear our conference.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)