He put four little ivory crows into the Boy's hands.

We look for red, and foxes meet; For black, and crows our vision greet.

And when we to our homes repair, We'll send to you our richest fare, Such is the love to you we bear! ~A Wife Consoled by Her Husband's Arrival~ Cold is the wind, fast falls the rain, The cock aye shrilly crows.

ON A MISER "Hang her, a thoughtless, wasteful fool, She scatters corn where'er she goes" Quoth Hassan, angry at his mule, That dropt a dinner to the crows.

like a snowy dove trooping with crows (he said), so richly did her beauty and perfections shine above the ladies her companions.

Now I will make short work of you this day, for I will hang up all three of you as a farmer would hang up three crows to scare others of the kind from the field.

How many mistake the crowing of the cock for the rising of the sun, albeit the cock often crows at midnight, or at the moon's rising, or only at the advent of a lantern and a tallow candle!

20 Had we not been perverse and careless grown, This dire event by omens was foreshown; Our trees were blasted by the thunder stroke, And left-hand crows, from an old hollow oak, Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak.

"Caw, Caw, Caw," one old crow cried as he faced the other two crows.

"Those crows must be talking to each other!"

Dickie Dorn thought to himself, as he lay upon his back under the big oak tree and watched the three crows.

"I was wondering what the three crows were talking of!"

[Illustration] "Am I to take it, Granny?" "Yes, my dear, and you will be able to understand what the three crows are talking about.

" Dickie swallowed the purple fluid, for he was very anxious to return to the big oak tree and listen to the crows.

That is a state of mind which is a bird-call for all the devils; and when they see a man in that temper, they flock to him, I believe, as crows do to carrion.

I like it better than your gloomy fields of black, with death's heads, and other childish scare-crows.

And here I learned to indulge a fondness for the very crows, which to this day I have never outgrown.

Yesthe cawing crows have been company for me in many a solitary ramble; and whenever I hear them, I inwardly pay my respects to them.

I'd 'a' fought till the white crows come a-cawin', but the rest of 'em wasn't so het up with the Holy Ghost, I reckon.

A swarm of mewing gulls went to and fro, and with them mingled pigeons and crows.

The crows sauntered across the sky, care free as hoboes.

Peter Rabbit and the big black crows.

A good rooster crows everywhere.

They say they're after the Crows, but it's a ten-dollar bill against a last year's bird's-nest that they'll take on any kind of trouble that comes along.

All day across the ever-cloven soil, Strong horses labour, steaming in the sun, Down the long furrows with slow straining toil, Turning the brown clean layers; and one by one The crows gloom over them till daylight done Finds them asleep somewhere in duskèd lines Beyond the wheatlands in the northern pines.