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  • Well, I grew up in a world where a mouse was a furry rodent, a twitter was a bird-call, and Katharine Lee Bates, as far as I knew back then, was merely a dormitory.

    Lynn Sherr Wellesley Speech: 'Remember Our History As You Make Your Own' The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Well, I grew up in a world where a mouse was a furry rodent, a twitter was a bird-call, and Katharine Lee Bates, as far as I knew back then, was merely a dormitory.

    Lynn Sherr Wellesley Speech: 'Remember Our History As You Make Your Own' 2010

  • It's usually little kids and I usually respond to their bird-call like squawk with an mimic cry "Child!"

    In the direction of my daydreams 2007

  • It's usually little kids and I usually respond to their bird-call like squawk with an mimic cry "Child!"

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • “Such self-conceit — and Heaven knows we have the root of it in ourselves also — is the very daughter of self-will, and of that loud crying out about I, and me, and mine, which is the very bird-call for all devils, and the broad road which leads to death.”

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • When I get home, I hear the shower running in the master bedroom, the metallic bird-call sound in the pipes.

    Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005

  • When I get home, I hear the shower running in the master bedroom, the metallic bird-call sound in the pipes.

    Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005

  • When I get home, I hear the shower running in the master bedroom, the metallic bird-call sound in the pipes.

    Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005

  • Another bird-call, this time from behind and to the right.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • My able assistant, Miss Emma, will now favor us with her bird-call imitations.

    Caddie Woodlawn’s Family Carol Ryrie Brink 2000

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