titmouse

• So a university needs only one phenomenal abstract mathematician, only one outstanding Sanskrit scholar, one Grade A atom-smasher, one supreme authority on the life and habits of the female titmouse, and one of other kinds of decorative but not indispensable scholars, to appear sufficiently resplendent and well-dressed. —  June, 1943
• The Brits seem to have all the good ones … Who wants to settle for a titmouse when you could have a great tit … pete Says: —  Think Progress
• As I waited, Bernice's birds began to arrive: a tufted titmouse, a yellow-rumped warbler who drank from her bird bath, a brown thrasher who flew in low and started scrabbling through the pine needles in the underbrush, a red-winged blackbird and a brilliant cardinal, followed by his lovely wife. —  Berkshire Eagle Most Viewed
• About two dozen or more of a little bird called the titmouse had all perched on one tree, where they were pecking, and fighting, and love-making, and noise-making, all at the same time. —  Harry's Ladder to Learning
• The social amenities must wither in its desolate atmosphere, and dwindle to chill shadows, like the ghosts that haunt the attic story To complete the air of saddening vacancy that clung like a damp to the really arid white walls, when the brothers led us down a wide staircase to the vaulted space beneath the basement, we came upon some hundreds of small bird-cages, containing each a miserable linnet, titmouse, or finch, condemned to chirp out its wretched existence in this airless underground region. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866

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