Finches

"Finches" is a nice enough poem about how people can't resist ascribing human thoughts and feelings to animals because we want nature to be about us.

Surely the sea is the most beautiful fact in our universe, but you won't find a fisherman who will say so... 2009

"Duane Hobbs is a nutcase who thinks he sees the boogeyman; Walks Quietly resents being spied on by you; and the Finches are a couple worried about their sick child."

The Trouble with Witches Damsgaard, Shirley 2006

I told you somewhere else that the Finches are the largest family of birds.

Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life Various

At Startop's suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.

Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

At Startop's suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.

Great Expectations 1860

At Startop's suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.

Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841

Meeting the real-life "Finches," Buzz Bissinger wonders who traumatized whom.

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And so he did, and when he came back to the Finch's on Monday morning, for his mother saw that leaving school for a time would be no serious loss, and a week or two with the Finches might be a great gain, he came radiant to Mrs. Finch, and finding her in her chair by the open window alone, he burst forth, "I told her, and she wouldn't let me.

Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

Chris Fisher in Birds of the Rocky Mountains put it well: “During the winter, Gray-crowned Rosy Finches spill out of the attics of the Rockies to flock together at lower elevations.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

The Finches and the Burroughs in “Running with Scissors” (2006) Dir.

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