She was a gray parrot with a few red feathers in her tail, and she had bright eyes, and a very knowing air.

It was on the tip of her tongue to call her a poll parrot.

How can I help it when you remind me all the time of my aunt's pet parrot in yore face and language.

The little parrot!"

Walt Disney's Donald Duck and the pixilated parrot.

The case of the perjured parrot.

A dilapidated parrot and a few goats are all that is required to complete the picture of Robinson Crusoe changing camp.

"How have you enjoyed your holiday?" Joyce gave a final swallow of the choking lump in her throat, and began her humble confession that she had framed up-stairs among the rows of dismal blue wall-paper parrots.

The first of these which came under my notice was an enormous black parrot (Microglossus aterrimus) with crimson cheeks; at Cape York it feeds upon the cabbage of various palms, stripping down the sheath at the base of the leaves with its powerful, acutely-hooked upper mandible.

But the learned doctors again examined me, and decided that, as I did not walk on four legs, I must be a new kind of featherless parrot.

Secure, let fluent parrots feign The musick of the dove; 'Tis only in the eye may reign The eloquence of love.

They slaughtered a camel, and were fortunate to shoot a few pigeons and galah parrots, the fresh meat restoring a little of their strength.

The beats of her heart grew fainter and fainter, and vaguer, like a fountain giving out, like an echo dying away;and when she exhaled her last breath, she thought she saw in the half-opened heavens a gigantic parrot hovering above her head.

In one corner, on a bench against a wall hung with matting, grey parrots in tall cages were being fed by a slave.

We need only recall the harsh and noisy parrots, so similar in their peculiar utterance.

I want to be something more than an intelligent parrot, Philip.

At that, I could have screamed, had I been in less terror; for the great eyes, so big as crown pieces, the bill like to an inverted parrot's, and the slug-like undulating of its white and slimy body, bred in me the dumbness of one mortally stricken.

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

Another lovely little parrot, the taeteea sooga, has a green body, red head, and black throat; but the most showy and brilliant of all the tribe is the putsoogee.

The numbers consisted commonly of two parts: the first being moralizings on life and manners by a miraculous parrot; and the second a digest of whatever happenings the author could scrape together.

Even if the bird had been caught in the act, it would only have been 'That mischievous parrot!'

She transferred all her property to his name, and soon afterwards, rouged, perfumed with amber á la Richelieu, surrounded by negro boys, Italian grey-hounds, and noisy parrots, she died, stretched on a crooked silken couch of the style of Louis the Fifteenth, with an enamelled snuff-box of Petitot's work in her handsand died deserted by her husband.

He was a young fellow about Jack's age, but not one-half so manly, and he was sniffling and scolding about "that pesky parrot."

And I say that those preposterous parrots, without style, without beauty, without form, whose bodies have not even kept the pleasing oval of the egg they were hatched from, look like so many desperate fowls escaped from some hen-coop of the Apocalypse!

" He cocked his head to one sidean habitual gesture with Charterisand the colonel noted, as he had often done before, how extraordinarily reminiscent Jack was of a dried-up, quizzical black parrot.