Citations:unkindness

English citations of unkindness

Noun: "the collective noun for ravens"

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• 2006, Kate Forsyth, The Shining City: Book Two of Rhiannon's Ride, Roc (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  All Olwynne could remember, though, was her father falling away from her into some deep pit, his black wings bent over his face, and then hundreds of ravens, an unkindness of ravens, plummeting from the sky to peck out her eyes.

• 2007, Elizabeth Haydon, The Thief Queen's Daughter, Starscape Books (2007), →ISBN, page 228:

  "There's an unkindness of ravens that roosts on top of the guild. Their numbers are growing by the day. Aren't they spectacular?

• 2009, Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon, Margaret K. McElderry Books (2009), →ISBN, page 4:

  In through the window came an unkindness of ravens.

• 2010, Rick Burroughs, Alan Wake, Tor Books (2010), →ISBN, page 38:

  A raven cawed somewhere up ahead, and its cry was answered by others, an unkindness of ravens on all sides.