humming-birds

They were bone-tipped and feather shafted, and the feathers, torn from the breasts of humming-birds, iridesced like jewels.

THE RED ONE 2010

LISTEN TO THE BIRDS that's where all the music comes from. birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. and watch humming-birds. they fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.

Holly Cara Price: Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop: RIP Captain Beefheart Holly Cara Price 2010

LISTEN TO THE BIRDS that's where all the music comes from. birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. and watch humming-birds. they fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.

Holly Cara Price: Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop: RIP Captain Beefheart Holly Cara Price 2010

This two-by-five-meter oil painting, which shows vibrantly colored flowers and humming-birds, could be mistaken for a photo.

Singapore 2008

Immediately they conducted Candide to a beautiful pavilion adorned with a colonade of green marble, spotted with yellow, and with an intertexture of vines, which served as a kind of cage for parrots, humming-birds, guinea-hens, and all other curious kinds of birds.

Candide 2007

Their dinner consisted of four dishes of different soups, each garnished with two young paroquets, a large dish of bouillé that weighed two hundred weight, two roasted monkeys of a delicious flavor, three hundred humming-birds in one dish, and six hundred flybirds in another; some excellent ragouts, delicate tarts, and the whole served up in dishes of rockcrystal.

Candide 2007

Flower-gardens at least were there in plenty; for every limb was covered with pendent cactuses, gorgeous orchises, and wild pines; and while one-half the tree was clothed in rich foliage, the other half, utterly leafless, bore on every twig brilliant yellow flowers, around which humming-birds whirred all day long.

Westward Ho! 2007

We could outfly and beat down those scarlet humming-birds wherever they appeared.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

I was the first to tire of watching the humming-birds in the fuchsias.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

I was the first to tire of watching the humming-birds in the fuchsias.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005