548 adjectives to describe bird

"Those little birds, which cost me five pieces, I shall divide between my terrestrial friend here (looking at the Brahmin) and myself, we being the most meritorious of the company, and it being of the utmost importance to society, that food so wholesome should give nourishment to our bodies, and impart vigour and vivacity to our minds.

The money had been expended in the purchase of a disreputable old canary bird, for which Noaks, the manservant, had agreed to find board and lodging during the Christmas vacation.

Some day this shy, sweet bird would nestle against his heart.

At first, I feared my rare bird had flitted; I shook the bit of flying-jib that answered for a door, and called to any one within, more than once, before an inmate stirred.

You will see the prettiest birds in all the world dressed in the brightest reds and greens and blues and purples.

Some day this shy, sweet bird would nestle against his heart.

The third was a shy, mysterious little brown bird, peering out of the clustering leaves, and making a sound like the soft ticking of a clock.

The Swallows' swift flight carries them far and wide, for not only do they make homes all through North America, but they are so sure of wing and confident of outstripping any cannibal birds who might try to chase them, that when they leave us they fly by day and often stop for a little visit in the West Indies on their way to South America.

The same is true of most other aquatic birds.

Like the wounded birds of a flock fired into toward nightfall, they came straggling on with faltering steps, many of them without bag or baggage, beast or barrow, all asking shelter or burial, and forcing a fresh repartition of the already divided rations of their friends.

He was a striking-looking man, tall, broad-shouldered, dignified, very gorgeously attired in light-blue satin, embroidered in bright-coloured flowers and gold and silver designs, and a splendid yellow bird of paradise in his cap.

We have known amateur fowl-keepersworthy souls, who would butter the very barley they gave their pets, if they thought they would the more enjoy itcoop up a male bird and three or four hens in an ordinary egg-chest placed on its side, and with the front closely barred with iron hooping!

Ravens are sacred birds to them, and are never molested in anyway.

THE SNIPE.This is a migratory bird, and is generally distributed over Europe.

" "There is among us," I rejoined, "a saying about 'breaking a butterfly on the wheel'as if one spoke of driving away the tiny birds that nestle and feed in your flowers with a hammer.

The Bey shot a kader, a handsome bird, rather larger than a partridge, with black wings, and flies like a plover.

Almost the only thing that stands out distinct in my memory from the confused recollections of the last morning spent in Louvain is a huge sight- seeing carof the sort known at home as a rubberneck wagonwhich lumbered by us with Red Cross men perched like roosting gray birds on all its seats.

A number of brilliant birds fluttered at our approach.

Sixty islands lie upon this water, the haunt and home of innumerable birds.

Tropical birds sang or chattered in cages, and a learned but lawless parrot talked, swore, or made mischief, as he chose.

A startled snow-bird chirped to her, as she passed.

But the Boy had only laughed, and caught up the baggage as the last whistle set the Rampart echoes flying, piping, like a lot of frightened birds.

There are several ways of carving this most familiar game bird.

Two days and two nights he spent in struggling with the waves, though sore buffeted, and almost spent, never giving up himself for lost, such confidence he had in that charm which he wore about his middle, and in the words of that divine bird.

And all the while the broad still moon stared down on them grim and cold, as if with a saturnine sneer at the whole humbug; and the silly birds about whom all this butchery went on, slept quietly over their heads, every one with his head under his wing.

548 adjectives to describe  bird