daw's

I looked round at the rich carpets, soft cushions, and costly curtains; and then at my magnificent uniform, and began thinking of the old, old fable I had read as a child, of the jackdaw in borrowed plumes, and felt that I thoroughly deserved to share the vain daw's fate.

Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East George Manville Fenn 1870

If I have bound myself to pipe as others please, it need not be entirely; and I can promise you it shall not be; but still I am sensible when I lift my "little quill" of having forced the note of a woodland wren into the popular nightingale's -- which may end in the daw's, from straining; or worse, a toy-whistle.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

If I have bound myself to pipe as others please, it need not be entirely; and I can promise you it shall not be; but still I am sensible when I lift my "little quill" of having forced the note of a woodland wren into the popular nightingale's -- which may end in the daw's, from straining; or worse, a toy-whistle.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

If I have bound myself to pipe as others please, it need not be entirely; and I can promise you it shall not be; but still I am sensible when I lift my "little quill" of having forced the note of a woodland wren into the popular nightingale's -- which may end in the daw's, from straining; or worse, a toy-whistle.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

"That minds me, Jack," said Maggot, "that I seed a daw's nest here the last time I come along, so lev us go an 'stroob that daw's nest."

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines 1859

Can we think of a man or woman who grips us firmly, at the thought of whom we kindle when we are alone in our honest daw's plumes, with none to admire or shrug his shoulders, can we think of one such, the secret of whose power does not lie in the charm of his or her personality -- that is to say, in the wideness of his or her sympathy with, and therefore life in and communion with other people?

Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868

He was fruitlessly put in hope of advantage by change of air, and imbibing the pure aerial nitre of these parts; and therefore, being so far spent, he quickly found Sardinia in Tivoli, [III. a] and the most healthful air of little effect, where death had set her broad arrow; [III. b] for he lived not unto the middle of May, and confirmed the observation of Hippocrates of that mortal time of the year when the leaves of the fig-tree resemble a daw's claw.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

"No, thank 'ee," replied Maggot; "I've bin stroobin 'a daw's nest under cliff, an' I fell into the say, so I'm goin 'hum to dry myself, as I'm afeared o' kitchin 'cold, being of a delikit constitootion.

Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines 1859