His notes bear considerable resemblance to those of the Canary-bird, but they are more subdued and plaintive, and have a peculiar reedy sound, which is never perceived in the notes of the Canary.

She was fond of all boys' sports, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancynursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rosebush.

Placido recalled the case of a student who had passed through the entire course by presenting canary-birds, so he subscribed three pesos.

The commodities of these islands are wheat, barley, sugar, wine, and Canary-birds, which are much esteemed for the sweetness and variety of their song.

The recognised bird-catchers, therefore, had no opponents except dealers from other countries, who brought canary-birds, parrots, and other foreign specimens into Paris.

Above, there hung a cage, and a canary-bird shouted out now and then its pleasure at the sunny day, with a half-dream perhaps of a tropical climate in the tropical air with which the coal-fire filled the room.

"I will have that one," said Josephine, after she had eyed it a moment, with her head on one side, like a canary-bird.

Fond of bull-finches and canary-birds.

I know they are none of the best; but do not let him see the canary-bird, for then he will do nothing for you.

He said he could not consent to give the money subscribed for the poor of the town to those who would spend some of it in buying seed for a canary-bird.

"Of singing birds they have linnets, goldfinches, ruddocks, Canary-birds, black-birds, thrushes, and divers others."CAREW: ib., w. Goldfinch.

Try rather to divest yourself of all your rational prejudices, as much as if you were studying the psychology of a canary-bird, and only watch the movements of this pretty round creature as she turns her head on one side with an unconscious smile at the earrings nestled in the little box.

Our embarkation will, I foresee, be a work of time and labour; for my friend, Mad. de , besides the usual attendants on a French woman, a femme de chambre and a lap-dog, travels with several cages of canary-birds, some pots of curious exotics, and a favourite cat; all of which must be disposed of so as to produce no interstine commotions during the journey.

A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad.

Our embarkation will, I foresee, be a work of time and labour; for my friend, Mad. de , besides the usual attendants on a French woman, a femme de chambre and a lap-dog, travels with several cages of canary-birds, some pots of curious exotics, and a favourite cat; all of which must be disposed of so as to produce no interstine commotions during the journey.

A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad.

He has several canary-birds disposed in a pretty manner in breeding-cages.

However, I have been sent for about like an African prince, or a learned canary-bird, and was, in particular, carried by force to the Princess of Talmond, the Queen's cousin, who lives in a charitable apartment in the Luxembourg, and was sitting on a small bed hung with saints and Sobieskis, in a corner of one of those vast chambers, by two blinking tapers.

It's a mighty curious thing how a woman who has the appetite and instincts of a turkeybuzzard will often make her husband believe that she's as high-strung and delicate as a canary-bird!

My fine Canary-bird, there's a Cake for thy Worship.

But one day I bought me a Canary-bird and hung him up in a cage at my window.

"Lora is dead now too!" said one, and, sighing, proceeded to tell of a maiden of Halle who had loved a student, and who, when the latter left Halle, spoke no more to any one, ate but little, wept day and night, gazing over on the canary-bird which her lover had given her.