linnet's

In time his expences brought clamours about him, that overpowered the lamb's bleat and the linnet's song; and his groves were haunted by beings very different from fawns and fairies.

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

I heard the evening linnet's voice the woodland tufts among,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Yet none may know the linnet's bliss except his own sweet dearie,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Jug, jug, joey -- oh, how sweet the linnet's theme!

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

I like that stern sectarian who wants to dress Taglioni in a stuff-gown and _sabots_, and set Liszt's hands to turn the machinery of a wine-press, and who yet, as he lies on the grass, finds the tears come into his eyes at the least linnet's song, and who makes a disturbance in the theatre to stop

Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas

I heard the evening linnet's voice the woodland tufts amang, vol. iii.,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

In that sequestered road, where the whirr of a linnet's flight is startling, before the first workman comes through the dew, you can hardly fail to gather some share of peace.

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

Nests were counted and cherished; it was a great year when a cuckoo's egg was discovered among the linnet's clutch, and its development was watched in breathless interest.

The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

Robins were singing on the topmost sprays, and the linnet's sweet babbling was heard from the happy nests in its secret places; while from some unseen steeple the joyful sound of chiming bells made music between heaven and earth fit for bands of traveling angels.

The Man Between: An International Romance 1906

For the voice that he swore 'ud out-call the linnet's

Green Bays. Verses and Parodies Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903