wren's

The nests are domed and in some ways look like a wren's overgrown nest.

Country diary: River Nairn 2011

And in cases on the walls, incredible jewels: a diamond as big as a wren's egg, a ruby that glowed with sullen fire even in the dim light, golden topaz, cool, cloudy, pale green peridot, clear blue sapphire and those more costly, misty with a shining star.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

To put this into human perspective, this wren's journey through the foreign terrain of our house would be equivalent to a 6-foot, 250-pound human blithely entering a strange structure with 130-foot ceilings that's roughly equivalent to the height of a 13-story building inhabited by 80-foot creatures weighing two-and-a-half tons, and whose intentions and dispositions are unknown, and nonchalantly wandering around for a distance of about 1,600 feet, or about one-quarter mile.

Archive 2002-06-01 John L. Trapp 2002

To put this into human perspective, this wren's journey through the foreign terrain of our house would be equivalent to a 6-foot, 250-pound human blithely entering a strange structure with 130-foot ceilings that's roughly equivalent to the height of a 13-story building inhabited by 80-foot creatures weighing two-and-a-half tons, and whose intentions and dispositions are unknown, and nonchalantly wandering around for a distance of about 1,600 feet, or about one-quarter mile.

A Bird in the Bedroom John L. Trapp 2002

Adams resettled in Braintree, in a larger house—which nevertheless, after their years in European metropolises, struck Abigail as a “wren's house”27—then came to New York City, the capital, in April 1789 to be sworn in.

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

Inside it was like a wren's nest, so spare and neat; she must have been widow longer far than wife.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

On one side of it there grew an old willow, and in one of the branches of this, they saw a wren's nest.

The Moral Picture Book Anonymous

Obreon took Robin by the hand and led him a dance: their musician was little Tom Thumb; for he had an excellent bag-pipe made of a wren's quill, and the skin of a Greenland louse: this pipe was so shrill, and so sweet, that a Scottish pipe compared to it, it would no more come near it, than a Jew's-trump doth to an Irish harp.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

The wren's visit is a source of much amusement to children and servants; and the wren's men, or lads, are usually invited to have a draught from the cellar, and receive a present in money.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

_Nesthooden_, a hooding over a bird's nest, as a wren's.

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes