fly-catcher

A rufous fly-catcher is hunting for his breakfast under the verandah roof because there are no insects out in the rain.

Australian floods: Why were we so surprised? 2011

Over the table a naked electric bulb hung on a cord from the ceiling, and next to it a sticky paper fly-catcher.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

May 28, 1789 – A fly-catcher has built a nest in the great apricot-tree, in which there is one egg.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Weblogs 2009

Graham perceived, were evidently still a long way behind the instinctive gift of the albatross or the fly-catcher.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

The rest of the tribe presented me with a straw fly-catcher of many colours, which I still have.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Vocabulary: une attrapade (a-tra-pahd) f = a reprimand un attrape-mouches = a fly-catcher un attrape-touristes = a tourist trap attrape-tout (adj) = a catch all

Santé 2004

Meek of voice as well as of demeanour, the leaden fly-catcher takes toll from the insects that drift nearest its lowly perch, where, apparently far away in spirit from any sort of adventure, it twists and turns in agitated expectation.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

He said to my wife, Be wary of the monkey; that is as much as if she should be cheery, and take as much delight in a monkey as ever did the Lesbia of Catullus in her sparrow; who will for his recreation pass his time no less joyfully at the exercise of snatching flies than heretofore did the merciless fly-catcher Domitian.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

He said to my wife, Be wary of the monkey; that is as much as if she should be cheery, and take as much delight in a monkey as ever did the Lesbia of Catullus in her sparrow; who will for his recreation pass his time no less joyfully at the exercise of snatching flies than heretofore did the merciless fly-catcher Domitian.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The next bird that caught our notice was a fly-catcher.

Harry's Ladder to Learning Anonymous