bird-catcher

There were some light moments besides Alex Indelicato's well-sung turn as Papageno the bird-catcher and Michael Brown's Monastatos.

'Magic Flute' hits the right notes -- except for the dramatic ones Joan Reinthaler 2010

From the forest the whip-crack of another weeping bird-catcher could be heard as it caught breakfast.

The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

As she looked up at the dangling branches of a bird-catcher, Eva skirted the base of the vicious tree.

The Search For WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi 2010

A peregrine falcon needs a lot of sky and is a bird-catcher.

Life-changing books 2008

Scarlett later regarded the bird as a giant goshawk however (a member of the genus Accipiter), a specialist bird-catcher adept at flying through tangled woodland habitats.

Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

I only wished to give up this part of the bird-catcher which I had so rashly assumed.

Honorine 2007

Where is the merit of the fable of the kite presented by a bird-catcher to a king, whose nose he had seized with his claws?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

I only wished to give up this part of the bird-catcher which I had so rashly assumed.

Honorine 2007

STRANGER: And there is a still more ridiculous consequence, that the king is found running about with the herd and in close competition with the bird-catcher, who of all mankind is most of an adept at the airy life.

The Statesman 2006

We were going out into the country to shoot, and on the way we met a bird-catcher with cages of birds.

A Raw Youth 2003