mocking-birds

Almighty Allah in various tunes and tongues; turtles, mocking-birds, merles, nightingales, cushats and stone - curlews,3 whereat he marvelled in himself and was moved to mighty joy and solace.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Trees were leafing out, green on the distant slopes; fine clear sunlight shone on the mourners; mocking-birds sang on after the hymn singing stopped and the mound of red dirt was shoveled back in the grave.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Trees were leafing out, green on the distant slopes; fine clear sunlight shone on the mourners; mocking-birds sang on after the hymn singing stopped and the mound of red dirt was shoveled back in the grave.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Trees were leafing out, green on the distant slopes; fine clear sunlight shone on the mourners; mocking-birds sang on after the hymn singing stopped and the mound of red dirt was shoveled back in the grave.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Trees were leafing out, green on the distant slopes; fine clear sunlight shone on the mourners; mocking-birds sang on after the hymn singing stopped and the mound of red dirt was shoveled back in the grave.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

Most people are like mocking-birds and monkeys, repeating all they hear and mimicking all they see.

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

Butterflies flit noiselessly among them, and mocking-birds sing loud in the leafy screens above.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

When the breeding season has opened, however, it will not close without some family of mocking-birds being made desolate, for the young Ethiopian hath an ear for music, and most eagerly seeketh the young bird in its downy nest, trusting to the unsuspecting Yankee for remuneration therefor.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Two mocking-birds, one perched on the chimney-stack of the house, and the other on a straggling spray of the wild-orange hedge, vied with each other in imitating the medley of bird-language which made the air vocal on every side, pouring a rich flood of melody through the open windows and into the appreciative ears of the ladies who sat within.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

Or will we aspire to the indomitable soul of the mocking-birds that feed their young in captivity until they see they are prisoners for life, and then bring them poisonous spiders that they may die rather than live under such conditions?

The Master-Knot of Human Fate Ellis Meredith