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  • The thrush's plumage is brown, but not the plain brown the books would have it.

    Country diary: South Uist 2011

  • The mistle thrush's song is louder than the more common song thrush, but it is a shy bird which usually nests in trees rather than bushes.

    Country diary: Northumberland 2011

  • "Poor Susan" and "The Power of Music," which may best be described as tragic-comic, both address the power of song — the thrush's song or the fiddler's — to distract from the dreariness of labor, poverty, and urban displacement.

    Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music 2008

  • The lunge-grab-twist motion was very similar to the thrush's feeding movement, which must have been inherited from its reptilian ancestors.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010

  • Keats 'Lily simple flower cast in fire gilded by a conscious craftsman fresh and polished with sheen of a morning lake plain, as a thrush's beak intricate like lace milky skin, sweet like gumdrops amber hair spun as silk by the most vigilant spider dancing when walking only for those with open eyes massive soul

    PALTRY POULTRY POETRY: A Collection of Unprose From the Mind of a Senile Teen 2009

  • The female thrush's body is semi-submerged in the water of the gutter as she holds back the flow, protecting the nest and her chicks

    Archive 2009-06-01 Will 2009

  • The female thrush's body is semi-submerged in the water of the gutter as she holds back the flow, protecting the nest and her chicks

    DesignerBlog Will 2009

  • And over the ice, the dark harp of thrush's song, and over them all, the weather.

    As long as we're on poetry Kay Olson 2007

  • And over the ice, the dark harp of thrush's song, and over them all, the weather.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Kay Olson 2007

  • I used to think the wood thrush's song was the most beautiful, but now my heart belongs to the hermit thrush--fickle,fickle!

    Perfect Day asakiyume 2006

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