A traveler, Mr. H. pryer, who made a visit to one of the swifts' caves in Borneo, thus describes the coming and the going of the dusky birds: At a quarter past six in the evening the swifts began to return to the caves of their nests; a few had been flying in and out all day long, but now they began to pour in, at first in tens and then in hundreds, until the sound of their wings was like a strong gale of wind whistling through the rigging of a ship.
"The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines"
Hezekiah Butterworth
pryer was half-created when his name was chosen.
"Aspects of Literature"
J. Middleton Murry