例文・使い方で印象づける「swans」の覚え方

...It is as if the warmer, lighterclouds of sunny weather were nestling close to earth,frightened from the skies, like a flock of white swans,at the October howls of winter...

W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」

...The Anatidæ of North America are placed in five well-marked subfamilies,the Mergansers (Merginæ), River Ducks (Anatinæ), Sea Ducks(Fuligulinæ), Geese (Anserinæ), and Swans (Cygninæ)...

Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」

...The remaining species of our Ducks, Geese, and Swans, nest as arule, on the ground generally near water...

Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」

...Still thebreeding of swans for ornamental purposes or for sale to exhibitorsmight be carried on with profit upon many farms...

John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」

...In severe winters, flocks of Whoopers, Whistling Swans, or Elks,as they are variously called, come farther south, and may beobserved from time to time on different parts of the coast...

Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」

...Between swans, geese and ducks there islittle anatomical difference, save in thematter of size...

Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」

...It was during thewinter of 1870, at the Lake of Swans,in Mississippi, that the patient washunting at night, in a small boat andby the light of torches...

Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [February, 1898]」

...All the American swans are migratory—that is, they pass from north to south, every autumn, and back again from south to north in the beginning of spring...

Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」

...When the cygnets are full-grown, and the frost makes its appearance upon the lakes and rivers of the hyperborean regions, the swans begin to shift southwards...

Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」