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Answer for the clue "William Wharton novel ", 5 letters:
birdy

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Birdy is the debut novel of William Wharton , who was more than 50 years old when it was published. It won the U.S. National Book Award in category First Novel . Birdy was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1980, ultimately losing to The Executioner's Song by ...

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a. (context of a gun dog English) excited due to having encountered a bird or its scent. n. (context rare English) (alternative spelling of birdie English)

Usage examples of birdy.

I recommend you just sit tight until Birdy reappears when he gets bored.

I was sure you had decided that we would set out to find Birdy privately.

My information, gleaned today, is that Birdy and his father were on good terms - but they were cash-hungry.

Calpurnia Cara did originally hatch the hemlock plan, if Birdy told us right.

I told Honorius to take Birdy off somewhere, while I flame-grilled Carina.

Honorius to make his presence felt with the Senate clerks and get Birdy a trial date.

Calpurnia upset her husband enough to be left almost nothing, and why Birdy has been written out too.

I wondered if it might be relevant that Birdy, with his thin-faced look, and Carina with her wider-cheeked features were so unlike each other.

I caught up as Birdy wrestled with the lock, while the discarded Perseus whimpered nearby beneath a fig tree.

I did not remember seeing it before, though it may have been there yesterday when I was preoccupied with Birdy and Perseus.

It must be hard for Birdy to see an ex-slave now prospering when he was so completely luckless.

If Birdy refused it, the child would be taken and exposed on a madden.

This conference between Pug Hoffler and Birdy Zelker - for Cliff was sure that such a talk was taking place in a side room - might mean much in the coming activities that were brewed in the confines of the underworld.

As he flicked his match across the floor, Cliff Marsland was standing beside the doorway through which Pug Hoffler and Birdy Zelker had gone.

Had any observed him, they would have decided only that Cliff Marsland had business with Pug Hoffler and Birdy Zelker.