Long-legged fishers

Usage examples of herons.

We are almost as poor as the smallest tenant, though we live in this big house, and are still regarded as great people--the Herons of Herondale.

Wordley, and that he had been too indignant to acquaint the Herons with the fact.

I want to send the Herons a present, a really nice present that will help them, I hope, to forget the trouble I caused them.

It was almost difficult to believe that she had ever left Herondale that Laburnum Villa was anything but a nightmare and the Herons a dismal unreality.

Whenever they heard them rehearsing, they made snide remarks, sniggered loudly, and declared that the Herons stank to high heaven.

Both had herons on the collars, and both were at least as ornate as the scarlet coat he was wearing.

Rand had the feeling Caldevwin had noticed the herons as soon as he came in.

Silver herons stood on the high collar, and silver rapids ran down his sleeves, water battered to froth against jagged rocks.

There had not been a coat to fit him in the clothes they had found, and he thought it best to keep the fine silver embroidery on his sleeves and the herons on his collar hidden.

Above them the loons laughed, and herons called, and in the dense forest ashore foxes barked and owls hooted.

For many nights the three voyageurs camped, slept, and dreamed, with only the laughing loons, the calling herons, the plaintive owls, and distant fox bark to sweep across their slumbers.