dicky

• I have tried to scatter it wide, so as the finches and larks may have a chance, even when the jackdaws and rooks are at it Are you scattering food for the birds, then They're starved out in this weather, Miss; and then the boys come out wi' their guns; and the dicky-laggers are after them too The what The bird-catchers, Miss. —  The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
• But the demand was not persisted in Dicky" Doyle continued to work regularly for the paper, and his monogram signature, with a "dicky" either perched upon the top or pecking on the ground close by, was rarely absent from a single number, when the Popery scare--which had seized the popular mind towards the end of 1849--infected Punch with extraordinary virulence. —  The History of "Punch"
• The hymns proved to be nursery rhymes of salvation set to what may be described as lightly spinning dicky-bird music. —  A Circuit Rider's Wife
• At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them. —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."
• It's been my experience that a critter who has instincts instead of sense belongs in the bushes with the dicky-birds No one ever knew just what happened to Jack during the next three hours. —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

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