birds'-nests

We climb up slowly towards Bulls Cross, picking at the bushes for birds'-nests.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

Their thick iron tires were scored with grooves, and the grooves supported countless birds'-nests of copper wire, drawn from coinage at the local smithy in Sanly Bowitts.

A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

They further told me that the Siringi wish to claim their siri cave, where they get their birds'-nests which is close to Kumpung, and has belonged to them as long as they can remember; that this cave is a whole day's journey from Siring -- how, then, can it belong to the Siringi?

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Along the coasts of the large inhabited islands the Chinese travelled as traders or middlemen, at great personal risk of attack by individual robbers, bartering the goods of manufacturers for native produce, which chiefly consisted of sinamay cloth, shark-fin, balate (trepang), edible birds'-nests, gold in grain, and siguey-shells, for which there was a demand in Siam for use as money.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Sambas produces, beside gold, ten piculs of birds'-nests annually (of an inferior quality), much ebony, rattans, wax, &c.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Lu, Bokean, Dom or Doung, Seagally-hood and Tong luly luku; all these are governed by Datus from Sulo, who have expressly settled here to collect the prodigious quantities of birds'-nests abounding in this district.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Island also furnish a small quantity of edible birds'-nests.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

I knew one boy who really thought it was not wrong to steal newly built birds'-nests, and I have seen girls -- quite large ones, too -- who were afraid of Mice!

Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

The Sooloomen pay for their purchases in various articles, of which the edible birds'-nests are the most valuable.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

Their industry is further exerted in collecting birds'-nests and wax; in cutting rattan and felling timber; in the pearl and tripan fisheries; or as mariners in commercial or piratical pursuits.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel