"Meet me at the end of North Ride by the heronry.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
The nearest heronry must be about thirty miles distant, which probably explains their absence at that time.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
There was no heronry at hand; besides, it was not the breeding time which is the proper season for this particular sport; so they did not trouble to ride out to one; but the partridges and hares and rabbits that abounded in the Maxwell estate gave them plenty of quarreys.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson