blue-birds

Among the different kinds of birds captured in this way, mocking - birds, blue-birds, robins, meadow larks, quail, and plover were the most numerous.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Robins and bobolinks and blue-birds and sundry other favorites furnish the warp, and color and characterize the tapestry of a flowing, vocal morning; while the little, gray-backed multitude work in the neutral ground tones, and bring the sweeter and more elaborate notes into beautiful relief.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

The blue-birds sang in the goldening boughs, unaffrighted by the constant roll of elegant equipages in which, at this hour, the residents of the stately mansions on either side the road were taking the air; and the crickets hopped about undisturbed in the crevices of the gray stone walls.

The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various

Little counted seven blue-birds and Gertie ten, besides one brilliant cardinal that flashed by like a flame, whistling joyously.

Chicken Little Jane Lily Munsell Ritchie

Even the little wrens bickered with the blue-birds, and showed their selfishness and jealousy in chasing them from the crumbs she impartially spread for all in common.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Among the different kinds of birds captured in this way, mocking-birds, blue-birds, robins, meadow larks, quail, and plover were the most numerous.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

On he went, over hill and dale, with the cuckoos and blue-birds singing on the sledge, and then he drove along the seashore to the north in a cloud of snow and sand and mist and sea-foam, looking out for

Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

Come with us and you can see the pair taking their survey of the yet unfurnished parlors, as busy and happy as a couple of blue-birds picking up the first sticks and straws for their nest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

After he was dressed he ordered his magic sledge to be harnessed, and on the front placed six cuckoos and seven blue-birds that they might sing and charm the Northland maiden.

Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind

Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring.

Quotations 1919