red-breast

The ring-dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found flies, the fly found infusoriae, the bee found flowers.

Les Miserables 2008

My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head out of her window and look at me!

Les Miserables 2008

A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one side.

Les Miserables 2008

A little lemur was once seen to leap about from branch to branch with the agility of a frog; it chirruped like a bird, and is not larger than a robin red-breast.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

A robin red-breast dropt from the frosty branches of the trees, upon the congealed rivulet; its panting breast and half-closed eyes shewed that it was dying: a hawk appeared in the air; sudden fear seized the little creature; it exerted its last strength, throwing itself on its back, raising its talons in impotent defence against its powerful enemy.

The Last Man 2003

By the third stanza, however, that potentially scandalous plenitude has been subtly assimilated to a chorus of voices whose gradual ascent from the "loud bleat" of lambs to the "treble soft" of the "red-breast" completes the distinctive Keatsian transfiguration of desire into autonomous form with that last, evanescent image of how the "gathering swallows twitter in the skies."

The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant, 1999

It was like being a force of nature: a robin red-breast who returns to the same tree every spring; a young gentleman in a blue blazer at the same restaurant every Saturday.

THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

The gentle robin red-breast will helpe her, and in winter in the coldest stormes will keepe a part.

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

-- _A Round Robin: _ a red-breast in the shape of a ball.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Various

"But tell me, my brave robin red-breast," said Philip, casting a look at the gay cloak which she had thrown around her person, and not seeming to pay much regard to the latter part of her answer, "how am I to serve mistress Eveline?"

The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams