When he swooped closer the dove would spring up and meet him in the air, striking him at the moment of meeting, and again the daw would be beaten.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
How, I inquired, did these innocent birds get on with their black neighbours, seeing that the daw is a cunning creature much given to persecution-a crow, in fact, as black as any of his family?
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The cocks could craw, the day could daw, And I wot sae even fell down the rain; Had Hobble na wakened at that time, In the Foulbogshiel he had been ta'en or slain.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott