Sentence examples for bird of night from inspiring English sources

Her proudest moment was to be shortlisted by Elizabeth Bowen, George Steiner and Cyril Connolly for the 1972 Booker prize with The Bird of Night.

El obsceno pajaro de la noche (1970; The Obscene Bird of Night), regarded as his masterpiece, presents a hallucinatory, often grotesque, world, and explores the fears, frustrations, dreams, and obsessions of his characters with profound psychological insight.

The novels of the Chilean Jose Donoso, for instance, in such works as "The Obscene Bird of Night," give us a more marked urban setting, containing telling descriptions of the "upstairs-downstairs" world of the ancient family manse.

Awards : Somerset Maugham Award (1971 I'm the King of the Castle); John Llewelyn Rhys Prize ('72 The Albatross and Other Stories); Whitbread Award ('72 The Bird of Night); Smarties Prize ('88 Can It Be True).

Two of Hill's novels (Strange Meeting and The Bird of Night) spin on an axis of a homoerotic friendship and almost all her books are told through a man's eyes at one point.

Tilly Mint learns to fly to Australia; she flies on a white owls back to send away the black bird of night and also has great adventures with Dodo, Frog, Lizard and a very gentle Lion.

Mr. Zmoda heard the first bird of the night -- a Canada goose -- moments later.

If you are involved in any "underground" activities (drugs, "birds of the night", gangs) make sure you're always in good company.

This year a boxed set of DVDs was released containing all of Tennessee Williams's best-reviewed movies: "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Sweet Bird of Youth," "The Night of the Iguana," and "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone".

It's no surprise that such an acute observer should be responsible for a wonderful array of night birds, from Falstaff and Hamlet, to Puck and Lady Macbeth, whose husband nervously asks the existential question, "What is the night?" The extravagance of nightwalking morphs, in Georgian England, into the rackety, creative independence of Grub Street.

Tutt's hypothesis was initially rejected because both ornithologists and entomologists doubted that birds were major predators of night flying moths that depended on crypsis for their defense during the day when they were inactive.