I must try and put that down this afternoon if I can, and bring in the hedge of convolvulus with lilac blooms behind and the Hoody crows dancing round; then past lines of pretty horses and tents and officers and ladies at lunch.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Robbed him, it may be, an old Hoody crow, against whom I have a grudge of ten years' standing.
"Hereward, The Last of the English"
Charles Kingsley