43 collocations for warbled

And all night long they sailed away; And when the sun went down, They whistled and warbled a moony song To the echoing sound of a coppery gong, In the shade of the mountains brown.

Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

In March, before the violet has ventured to peep out from the southern knoll of the pasture or the sunny brow of the hill, while the northern skies are liable to pour down at any hour a storm of sleet and snow, the Song-Sparrow, beguiled by southern winds, has already made his appearance, and, on still mornings, may be heard warbling his few merry notes, as if to make the earliest announcement of his arrival.

And I warble passion's words But to hear them sing like birds.

Homer and Hesiod intimate to us how this Art should be applied, when they represent the Muses as surrounding Jupiter, and warbling their Hymns about his Throne.

The genial showers of repentance are softly falling upon the barren plain; the wilderness is budding like the rose; the voice of joy succeeds the cotes of we; and hope, like the lark, is soaring upward and warbling hymns at the gate of heaven.

He warbles through the fragrant air his lays, And seems the beauties of the morn to praise.

Holding on by various tables, he had sidled up without accident to himself or any of the jugs and glasses round about him, to the table where we sat, and seated himself warbling the refrain of the Colonel's song.

The flowery landscape, and the gilded dome, And vistas opening to the wearied eye, 480 Through all his wide domain; the planted grove, The shrubby wilderness with its gay choir Of warbling birds, can't lull to soft repose The ambitious wretch, whose discontented soul Is harrowed day and night; he mourns, he pines, Until his prince's favour makes him great.

" The songster heard this short oration, And, warbling out his approbation, Released him, as my story tells, And found a supper somewhere else.

He mused and dreamed, and fancied it would be so pleasant to be in love; for he was at that golden agethe only golden age the world has ever seenwhen the heart passes from vision to vision (as the bee from flower to flower)and wanders, in its dreams of hope, from earth to heaven, from sunshine to shadefrom warbling groves to sighing maidens.

I was warbling "Idaho" for all I was worthyou know

Rise, sons of harmony, and hail the morn, While warbling larks on russet pinions float; Or seek at noon the woodland scene remote, Where the grey linnets carol from the hill: O let them ne'er, with artificial note, To please a tyrant, strain the little bill, But sing what Heaven inspires, and wander where they will!

At the time when the rage of writing has seized the old and young, when the cook warbles her lyricks in the kitchen, and the thrasher vociferates his heroicks in the barn; when our traders deal out knowledge in bulky volumes, and our girls forsake their samplers to teach kingdoms wisdom; it may seem very unnecessary to draw any more from their proper occupations, by affording new opportunities of literary fame.

20 Birds warbled round meand each trace Of inward sadness had its charm; Kilve, thought I, was a favoured place, And so is Liswyn farm.

He rests the harp upon his knee, And there in a forgotten tongue He warbles melody.

Its first loud manifestation may be heard in the prose of Carlyle and his school; yet even now its influence has permeated our whole literature so much, that, when reading some of our latest poetry, tones and melodies will come like distant echoes from the groves on the hillsides where warble the nightingales of Germany.

The Muse of China has not disdained to warble harmonious numbers in praise of her favorite beverage.

To thee, Araby's daughter,' Thus warbled a Perl, beneath the deep sea, 'No pearl ever lay under Onan's dark water, More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee.'

"Happy as the dealer in a big jackpot," warbled the Eminent Person.

1. Satyrs, sing, let sorrow keep her cell, Let warbling Echoes ring, And sounding music yell[150] Through hills, through dales, sad grief and care to kill In him long since, alas! hath griev'd his fill.

On visiting the Battery a few days ago, one of the park-keepers (himself looking in his bright new uniform somewhat like a blue-jay) expressed his conviction that, next spring, that time-honored pleasure-garden of the old Knickerbockers will be a paradise for song-birds such as it has not been since the original Swedish Nightingale warbled her "woodnotes wild" there a score of years ago, more or less.

The walk changed to hopping and dancing, as she warbled various snatches from ballets and operas, settling at last upon the quaint little melody, "Once on a time there was a king," and running it through successive variations.

Now a flute warbles a luscious solo, then a flageolet.

Again and again the birds sang, and at last I discovered one of them perched at the top of the oak, tossing back his head and warbling a white-crowned sparrow: the one regular Massachusetts migrant which I had often seen, but had never heard utter a sound.

43 collocations for  warbled