I was in the service of the late Lord Brancaster at the time, a gentleman who owned a parrot to which he was greatly devoted, and one day the bird chanced to be lethargic, and his lordship, with the kindly intention of restoring it to its customary animation, offered it a portion of seed cake steeped in the '84 port.

"But Gussie isn't a parrot.

He seems to think he is a male newt, and you now appear to suggest that he is a parrot.

In the case of Lord Brancaster's parrot" "You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot.

In the case of Lord Brancaster's parrot" "You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot.

Just as he was preparing for death the king's parrot flew from its cage and alighted on a rosebush in Zadig's garden.

The adventure of the parrot set him a-thinking.

Zadig, having thanked the king and queen for their goodness, went likewise to thank the parrot.

" "Soon," replied the parrot.

Following the paste as the parrot, they stutter out anything in hopes of reward: obsequious parasites, says Erasmus, teach, say, write, admire, approve, contrary to their conviction, anything you please, not to benefit the people but to improve their own fortunes.

Choosing the slenderest branch of a tree, the parrot fastens a bulrush of about two spans long to its outer extremity, at the depending end of which rush it weaves its nest in a most beautiful manner, suspended like a ball, and having only one passage for entering.

Up in those forests on the borders of Nepaul, which are called the morung, there are a great many varieties of parrot, all of them very beautiful.

There is first the common green parrot, with a red beak, and a circle of salmon-coloured feathers round its neck; they are very noisy and destructive, and flock together to the fields where they do great damage to the crops.

The ghur[=a]l, a large red and green parrot, with a crimson beak.

Another lovely little parrot, the taeteea sooga, has a green body, red head, and black throat; but the most showy and brilliant of all the tribe is the putsoogee.

The sherra is another green parrot, a little larger than the putsoogee, but not so beautifully coloured.

It's adding insult to injury, as Sam Weller's parrot has it.

They then gathered a few large fresh leaves off the trees, tore the roasted ape into several pieces with their hands, and placing a large portion of it, as well as a parrot, Indian corn, and some roots upon the leaves, put it before me.

I therefore immediately fell to on the roasted monkey, which I found superlatively delicious: the flesh of the parrot was far from being so tender and palatable.

This was the first time I had seen these animals in a state of perfect freedom, and I secretly felt very much delighted that the gentlemen with me did not succeed in shooting any of the mischievous little creatures: they brought down, however, a few splendid lories (a sort of small parrot of the most beautiful plumage) and some squirrels.

" The New Orleans Bulletin, August 18, 1838, advertises "the negress Mary, aged nineteen, has a scar on her face, walks parrot-toed, and is pregnant.

'Ay, ay, old one; but blow it ever so hard, we must ease the earings for all that,' replied the mate undauntedly; and looking round, he spied a fine parrot perched on one of the cluesthe thoughtless author of all the false alarms, which had probably escaped from some other vessel, but had not been discovered to have taken refuge on this.

The black parrot.

No one who is familiar with the outline of the Parrot will fail to recognize any member of that Family by a general form which is equally common to the diminutive Nonpareil, the gorgeous Ara, and the high-crested Cockatoo.

In a love poem he makes the nightingale his messenger, as Marcabrun had used the starling and as others used the swallow or parrot.