... In front of it lay a large log, some thirty feet long, on which twelve or fourteen full grown natives were roosting, precisely like turkeys on a pole...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...The single specimen of thisspecies presently known from Tamaulipas was shot while itwas roosting in a ranch house...
Ticul Alvarez 「The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico」
...If night overtakes them at adistance from home, they look for a convenient roosting place and remainthere...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...The pullet never left the farmyard to join in the rambles ofthe other fowls, but kept near the pig all day, occasionally roosting onits friend's back when taking its afternoon nap...
Various 「Dog Stories from the "Spectator"」
...I mean thehabit of roosting at night in large flocks, while still on itsbreeding grounds, and long before the close of the breedingseason...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...Keyser's experiment was interesting and valuable,but his sagacity fails him when interpreting theaction of the jay in roosting in an exposed placeafter it had been given its liberty...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...A door leads from the rear of this room into the roosting apartment,through which is a passage to the back side of the building, and a dooropposite, leading out into the yard...
Lewis Falley Allen 「Rural Architecture」
...Vast numbers of gulls and other birds were roosting upon it, and on the rocks were many seals; but the surf would not admit of landing...
Matthew Flinders 「A Voyage to Terra Australis」
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