Charlemagne E. V. 1915. Mammals of the vicinities of Kyiv. [In:] Materials to investigation of fauna of the South-west of Rossija. Kessler Ornithol. soc., Kyiv, 1:26-92. (In Russian).

The sharqi is a wind from the south and southeast that blows in early summer and early winter.

[T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

“Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?” “I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.”