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Still reading The Woodlanders, beginning Chapter XX at Project Gutenberg and I come across this:
A quick search tells me a nightjar is a kind of nocturnal bird. There is also plenty of attached folkloric inspiration and, eventually, probably, as much information as I could want.
Addendum: It has been a long time since I have the Moon referred to as a planet. One reason I enjoy reading older novels is the way language changes over time. It refreshes my perspective to see familiar words used in new ways and to see words and constructions unfamiliar to me or forgotten.
That and the fun. Who told you it was not fun?
The two trees that had creaked
all the winter left off creaking, the whir of the night-jar,
however, forming a very satisfactory continuation of uncanny music
from that quarter. Except at mid-day the sun was not seen
complete by the Hintock people, but rather in the form of numerous
little stars staring through the leaves.
A quick search tells me a nightjar is a kind of nocturnal bird. There is also plenty of attached folkloric inspiration and, eventually, probably, as much information as I could want.
Addendum: It has been a long time since I have the Moon referred to as a planet. One reason I enjoy reading older novels is the way language changes over time. It refreshes my perspective to see familiar words used in new ways and to see words and constructions unfamiliar to me or forgotten.
That and the fun. Who told you it was not fun?
