Insects, stirred up by the noisy machines, are snapped up by gangs of red-rumped swallows, including this year's youngsters who have fledged several weeks ago.
A balmy, soft warmth poured into the room, heavy with velvety smells, redolent of many blossoms, of newly fledged trees and of the moist, freshly turned red earth.
Hatshepsut, the dead pharaoh's chief wife and widow, stepped in to help as her stepson's regent but ended up ruling beside him as a fully fledged pharaoh.
There are places like Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa that are territories of the US, but aren't fully fledged states as of 2022.
Such children are essentially inventing rough but rich languages out of nothing, with features such as fixed word order and hierarchical grammatical structures much like those in fully fledged languages.
Then there was a little greenfinch, just fledged, fluttering along the ground, and it seemed quite possible to catch it, till it managed to flutter under the blackberry bush.