martlet

• The Greeks had a double idea in the word, which it is not the least necessary to keep; and Aristotle's cypselus is not the swift, but the bank-martlet--"they bring up their young in cells made out of clay, long in the entrance." —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
• On a saltire, a martlet--Neville 2. —  The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
• Duncan says This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses and Banquo This guest of summer The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved masonry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here; no jetty, frieze Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle Where they most breed and haunt I have observ'd The air is delicate Perhaps the familiar swallow has never been treated with more discrimination; and at this point of the tale of horror it has the effect of a ray of sunshine in a sky dark with storm clouds In Act II. —  The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
• This guest of summer The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his lov'd mansionry, that heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
• Associate this with Falstaff's soliloquy about honour in the same play, act v. scene 1, and the true character of his courage or cowardice--for it may bear either name--comes out Is there not conscious art in representing the hospitable face of the castle of Macbeth_, bearing on it a homely welcome in the multitude of the nests of the temple-haunting martlet (Psalm lxxxiv. —  A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

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