dickey-bird

This young person had a round, chubby face, with bright apple-hued cheeks, a dark, bullet-shaped head, and round, bead-like eyes that glanced about her rapidly like those of a frightened dickey-bird.

Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron

He is tempted to elaborate at much greater length the origin and obscure beginnings of this harbinger of fate, this dickey-bird of destiny; to expatiate in pages of elegant verbiage upon the psychological motivations which put him into permanent evening dress, upon his feverish sex life, and upon the atrophied talent which made him such a popular performer on the sackbut at informal Soho soirees.

The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937

He handed me a mirror, and Gabord, fetching a fine white handkerchief from his pocket, said, "Here's for your tears, when they drum you to heaven, dickey-bird."

The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

I had no impulse to smile, but I knew how I could most touch him, and so I said lightly, "You've got dickey-bird home again."

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

I had no impulse to smile, but I knew how I could most touch him, and so I said lightly, "You've got dickey-bird home again."

The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

"'Tis custom to feed your dickey-bird ere you fetch him to the pot." he said, and drew the cork from a bottle of wine.

The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

"Here's for your tears, when they drum you to heaven, dickey-bird."

The Seats of the Mighty, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

"'Tis custom to feed your dickey-bird ere you fetch him to the pot." he said, and drew the cork from a bottle of wine.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

"'Tis custom to feed your dickey-bird ere you fetch him to the pot." he said, and drew the cork from a bottle of wine.

The Seats of the Mighty, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

He handed me a mirror, and Gabord, fetching a fine white handkerchief from his pocket, said, "Here's for your tears, when they drum you to heaven, dickey-bird."

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897