617 examples of blackbird in sentences

" She perched herself on her little horsehair trunk which she had packed to take to Blossy's, looking in her time-worn silk gown like a rusty blackbird, and, like a bird, she bent her head first to one side and then the other, surveying Abe in his "barrel clothes" with a critical but complimentary eye.

The king was in the parlor, Counting out his money; The queen was in the kitchen, Eating bread and honey; The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; There came a little blackbird, And snipped off her nose.

"The first cuckoo clock, as you are doubtless aware, sir"he was always scrupulous to assume knowledge on the part of his hearer, no matter how abstruse or technical the subject; it was a phase of his inherent courtesy"was intended to represent not the cuckoo, but the blackbird.

By night, he silently climbed the trees to surprise the female of the toucan or blackbird, which he pitilessly stifled over their young brood.

I have changed to the red winged blackbird, because that was the first American bird I learned to know by his song, outside of the robin.

There were sounds of sibilant dripping in the dim sedges; of alewives jumping by the side of our boat; of a sudden rush of blackbird wings; and of the evening breeze as it freshened in the bending blades.

On wings of cheer: a red-winged blackbird shares his happy heart.

but the very bird we should be most glad to seethe first of the Blackbird and Oriole familythe harlequin in his summer livery.

As these two belong to the Blackbird and Oriole family, we may as well have them now, though in the regular family procession the 'tramp' walks next to the Bobolink, who is such a vagrant himself.

"Those are members of the Blackbird family called Cowbirds, because they follow the cows as they feed, in order to pick up worms and bugs that are shaken out of the grass.

THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD (THE HUSSAR) "This handsome Blackbird comes early and stays late in places where he does not linger all the year.

THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD (THE HUSSAR) "This handsome Blackbird comes early and stays late in places where he does not linger all the year.

"We welcome this Blackbird in the spring, because his is one of the earliest bird-notes.

" [Illustration: Red-winged Blackbird.]

The Red-winged Blackbird Length nine and a half inches.

THE PURPLE GRACKLE (THE CROW BLACKBIRD.

" "Have we used up all the Blackbird family?" asked Dodo, as they sat on the sand and began to dig holes with their hands.

"Strange as it is," replied the Doctor, "though the Crow is the blackest of all our birds he does not belong to the Blackbird family, but to a separate one of his ownthe family of Crows, Jays, and Magpies.

"Yes, but that is no stranger, as far as looks go, than to find a flaming Oriole in the Blackbird family, is it?

Red-winged Blackbird Ageloe'us phoeni'ceus.

The living blue above throbs with the tremulous song of innumerable larks; the measured chant of cuckoos awakens the woods; and through the thickets a whole world's gladness sings itself forth from the throat of thrush and blackbird.

Silence gathers itself together out of the dark, deepened, not broken, by the hushing of the wind among the beech-leaves, or the startled cluck of a blackbird, or a wood-pigeon's soft murmur, as it dreams in the silver fir.

Poor Blackbird, he be a-come to his end, same as we all must come to it soon or late.

'Tis what ye couldn't put up wi', could ye, Blackbird?"

"That's a bomb for the railway crossing at Nanteuil, I'll bet!" said Leon, and while I was realizing that that projectile might just as well have been for us, the others were gesticulating and bowling encouragement to their compatriot some few hundred yards above them, as though he could bear every word they said: "Go it, old man!" "Bring down that cursed blackbird!"

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