linnet

• The English word linnet does not, to my mind, convey so much of simple beauty and of pastoral ideas as belong to our Scottish word LINTIE. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• Some peahens preferred an old pied peacock; albino birds in a state of nature have never been seen paired with other birds; a Canada goose paired with a Bernicle gander; a male widgeon preferred a pintail duck to its own species; a hen canary preferred a male greenfinch to either linnet, goldfinch, siskin, or chaffinch. —  Darwinism (1889)
• Sparrows, finches, water-wagtails, two small birds, name unknown, one kind like a linnet, and a large bird like a starling. —  Darwinism (1889)
• One little linnet--so very little--perched on a delicate silver birch, and poured its full soul out of its liquid throat Robbie toiled painfully along with a feeble step, and with nerveless despondency on every feature of his face--his coat flying open to his woollen shirt; one of his hands thrust with his pipe into his belt; the other hand dragging after him a heavy staff; his cap pushed back from his hot forehead When he walked listlessly into Carlisle it was through the Botcher-gate on the south. —  The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
• And now, by the power of love, this girl with the face of an angel in its sweetness and simplicity--this girl, usually as tremulous as a linnet--was about to do what a callous man might shrink from She followed the pack-horse road beyond the lonnin that turned up to Shoulthwaite, and stopped at the gate of the cottage that stood by the smithy near the bridge. —  The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

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