31 Words to use with crows

It's like a crow-bar only different.

I took out a parcel of my best crow quills, and down I sate in the greatest form imaginable.

Numerous names have been suggested by their fancied resemblance to the feet, hoofs, and tails of animals and birds; as, for instance, colt's-foot, crow-foot, bird's-foot trefoil, horse-shoe vetch, bull-foot, and the vervain, nicknamed frog's-foot.

We paid it in advance, in case anything should happen on the way, and he took us in a venerable open carriage behind two crow-bait skeletons that had once, in a happier day when hay was cheaper, been horses.

I 'low'd the crows mout be afeard Of a man made outen straw.

At that, the crow-chief turned his head and said: "Be careful of your eyes, Thumbietot!"

The ridge on the heather-heath was really not as desolate as one might think, for it was inhabited by a large crow-folk.

The start was perfect, and the machine swooped toward the distant tower straight as a crow flies and almost as fast.

On the way she met a crow half dead with fatigue.

They wore the usual shirt, trousers, and fringed leather apron, with jim-crow hats.

' "Maggy did a crow-hop when she found she had to travel with the chink, but I told her it was O.K., so she got aboard an Injin pony and off they goes to Pete.

"If he comes crow-hopping on my reservation; I'll kick his pantalettes on top of his scalp-lock.

"Come back, I say, you loafing, miching, wrecking crow-keepers; there are no pickings for you here.

A partial solution of the mystery is to be found in the habit which the bird has in common with most of the crow kind, of depositing any surplus food in a place of safety for future use.

Is it, perhaps, some local attachment, so that a crow hatched in Brookline, for example, would be more loath than another to quit that neighborhood,a sort of crow patriotism, akin to that which keeps the Greenlanders slowly starving of cold and hunger on that awful coast of theirs.

There are few who have not observed a pigeon or a crow preserve, for some time, a horizontal flight without any apparent motion of the wings.

Another island, farther out than that of the rails (but the rails, like the long-billed marsh wrens, appeared to be present in force all up and down the river, in suitable places), was occupied nightly as a crow-roost.

The camaradas, on the other hand, had jim-crow saddles and bridles, and rusty little iron stirrups into which they thrust their naked toes.

"Old Euclio, seeing a crow-scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for an ill sign.

And as he went from home, seeing a crow scratch upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen, an ill sign, his money was digged up; with many such.

There was a house with charming high brick gables at either end, with little battlemented crow-steps, and with graceful chimney-stacks at the top.

The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head,[062]

Though all of the crow tribe are notorious for their harsh voices, yet if the power of mimicry be considered as a mark of superiority, the crow has claims to high rank in this department also.

"Yes, he's hidden in there," answered a crow-voice.

Never we wince, though none deplore us, We who go reaping that we sowed; Cities at cock-crow wake before us Hey, for the lilt of the London road!

31 Words to use with  crows