171 Metaphors for bird

What good are birds anyway?

"I think you might tell me what kind of an animal a bird is, and why it has feathers and can fly, instead of laughing," said Dodo in a shaky voice; for her feelings were very tender and she remembered too late what minerals are.

The Canary bird is the most charming of all singing birds.

The butterflies and rose-beetles are the most gorgeous among insects; the humming-birds and parrots are the most gorgeous among birds.

=Farmer Brown and the Birds.= A little story which teaches children that the birds are man's best friends.

His crest awhile, as, hampering coil on coil, Insidious knot on pinion proud prevails; Yet towering greatness crawling hate shall foil, Nor shall the Bird of Jove be long the Python's spoil.

The fourth bird was a queer hawk of the genus ibycter, black, with a white belly, naked red cheeks and throat and red legs and feet.

Confound your Italianos!the birds shall be the music-masters of my tiny dame.

Cape Bird is a very rounded promontory with many headlands; it is not easy to say which of these is the Cape.

many a bird of sweetest song I hear, when in woods or meads I roam; But sweeter by far than all, to me, Is my Chicadee at home.

At that age Alma Warbeck promised little charm, and the photograph allowed her less; but it was then that Thomas Bird became her bondman, as he had ever since remained.

You see, these birds of mine are only temporary coolies.

" Those birds were the only living creatures that seemed to frequent this part of the coast, without counting, indeed, numbers of interesting insects that Cousin Benedict would well know how to discover.

There could be little doubt that the bird was a pine-wood sparrow; but such things are not to be taken for granted.

Others inclined to the belief that the Poland bird was the father of the Dorking, and not without at least a show of reason, as the former bird much resembles the latter in shape; and, despite its sombre hue, it is well known that the Poland cock will occasionally beget thorough white stock from white English hens.

Haught had assured me that birds of this description were indeed the famous wild pigeons, now almost extinct in the United States.

" "Is that bird a Warbler?" asked Nat.

We'll lose our selves in Venus Groves of Myrtle, where every little Bird shall be a Cupid, and sing of love and youth, each wind that blows, and curls the velvet-leaves, shall breed delights, the wanton Springs shall call us to their banks, and on the perfum'd flowers we'll feast our senses; yet we'll walk by untainted of their pleasures, and as they were pure Temples we'll talk in them.

Moose-birds were at first the easiest for him to stalk, and he killed three.

But though every bird was home, though the night grew chilly as tombs, though a star was out, still there shone no yellow light from any window.

The bird of freedom is a great bird, and the land of the free is a great country.

Birds is first cousins to snakes.

"No, the birds who rove about the United States throughout the year are either Weed Warriors, or Seed Sowers, or those Tree Trappers who creep about tree-trunks picking the eggs and grubs of insects from the bark.

The only birds that are not expected to die a natural death are the pheasant, partridge, grouse, and woodcock; and these are to be killed according to the strictest laws and customs, at a certain season of the year, and then only by titled or wealthy men who hold their vested interest in the sport among the most rigid and sacred rights of property.

"Yes, I see that you know him; 'that dark-backed bird with a yellow spot on his tail' is not a bad description of the Myrtle Warbler," said the Doctor; "at least, as you generally see it, in autumn or winter, when that particular spot is the only one of the four which shows off well.

171 Metaphors for  bird