Sentence examples for pair of swans from inspiring English sources

In a tea-colored pond, a pair of swans glided back and forth.

Swallows arc and dip over Druridge pool; shellduck, a heron and a pair of swans ripple its surface.

We paddled down by a bridge and saw two white spots, which we knew to be a pair of swans.

John Lanchester: 1 Literature; 2 A pair of swans; 3 The Yeats brothers, Jack (silver medal in painting, 1924) and William Butler (Nobel prize for literature, 1923).

Almost hidden in the rushes, I saw a pair of swans: the female purposefully gathered twigs for a nest, even as the male behind her appeared to be trying to mate.

She treasures gardening, too, and says that beyond the "hollow wall" of her own gardens, where there are blue irises, lupins and geraniums, she has woodland ponds where she raises ducks and has a pair of swans.

At 60 acres, Prospect Park Lake would seem to be big enough for two pairs of swans.

At the center of the Gaia complex is a big pond of recycled water limned with native plants and home to a pair of bemused swans.

The Sun, July 4, 2003: "Police swooped on a gang of East Europeans and caught them red-handed about to cook a pair of Royal swans".

Over-leaning a stone wall, stirring a pair of mute swans to eloquence, the combined hisses trigger a localized squall — an infectious hyperactivity that makes an outing in "nature" an addictive spree, a confrontation with beauty incarnate: the swans disdainful of such mockery, glaring back down their beaks at parents whose cygnets are floundering in the deep.

Our pair of black swans would shout at the frogs with their brass voices as if to shut them up, but, outnumbered, the birds would soon give up and climb the island in the center of the pond and twine their necks together to sleep.