yellow-hammers

What but these same beggarly croakers, that be only fit to be turned into yellow-hammers up to Dartymoor, and sit on a tor all day, and cry

Westward Ho! 2007

The trees were full of birds: bobolinks, and cat-birds, and yellow-hammers, and golden robins, and sometimes a thrush, for the afternoon was wearing late.

The White Rose Road 1995

The birds twittered and two yellow-hammers told everyone that they wanted a 'little bit of bread and no cheese!

The Secret of Spiggy Holes Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1965

Robins, willow-wrens, and yellow-hammers were singing, the darlings, much prettier music than guns, and it is good to get away from the sound of motors and trains and whistles.

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

He was the sole owner of a herd of cattle (surely the experts and maybe the general public would classify them as scrubs and yellow-hammers) and best of all, he had acquired a few understanding friends, true and loyal.

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

In winter there were hunters of yellow-hammers and goldfinches in these regions, who set their nets and their decoys on the ground, and spent hours and hours watching for their game.

Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

He knew how the gold-finches, yellow-hammers, and linnets make their nests, and the preference some of them have for coltsfoot cotton, and others for wool or for cow's hair.

Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

There was a fine family of yellow-hammers just below the mill that Faith often visited, and she was sure that they knew her quite well.

A Little Maid of Ticonderoga Alice Turner Curtis 1912

It was an enchanted world of green shadows and silent movement; countless yellow caterpillars hung there, dangling to and fro, each on its slender thread; chaffinches and yellow-hammers swung themselves impetuously from bough to bough, and at every swoop snapped up a caterpillar; but these never became any fewer.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

It was an enchanted world of green shadows and silent movement; countless yellow caterpillars hung there, dangling to and fro, each on its slender thread; chaffinches and yellow-hammers swung themselves impetuously from bough to bough, and at every swoop snapped up a caterpillar; but these never became any fewer.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911