At one end he saw a stuffed canary, not perched on a twig, but lying prone on its side.

They continued in a horseshoe circle through the swamp, and the only scent they caught was that of a snow-owl perched up in a spruce.

Her cruse, it is broken; But he mends it with thread, And draws water with her: He cried to Ayesha: 'Give me my sabre, That I kill the merle Perched on the dunghill Where she dreams; She has eaten all my olives.'

Here Shelley wrote a famous and beautiful poem, and Venice, on a clear day, is visible in the distance from a monastery perched among trees upon one of the loftiest humps.

They had stopped to talk the matter over alongside one of the stores in the town; and indeed Bluff was perched upon an empty box, that lay at the foot of a small pyramid of similar cases, piled up until such time as they could be sold or destroyed.

" Jerry got away first, with Erastus perched behind him, and grinning from ear to ear with the novelty of the experience.

" Followed by three coolies who popped out of the grass with game-bags, the young stranger descended, hopped nimbly from tussock to gunwale, and perched there to wash his boots in the river.

On some of these storks meditated,sage, pondering heads and urbane bodies perched high on the frailest penciling of legs.

Miss Prudence had written to her once that some time she would tell her a story about herself; but could she mean this story? As she opened the gate she saw her blue bird with the golden crest perched on the arm of a chair at the window watching for her.

I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things in books' clothing perched upon shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants.

Tesegdelt, is another city of the province of Hhaha, very large and rich, perched high upon a mountain, and that fortified by nature.

Perched high up upon the seat, face and arms burnt dark brown by the tropical sun, is the driver.

It was a long tiresome wait, for we were perched upon some tussocks through which the water soon found its way.

There were the salmon swarming below the fall, and many constantly in the air on their upward journey, but the eagles perched high on the dark spruces, closing in the swirling water, were all they had to fear.

It is almost a question of being "up in a balloon, boys," when you are perched in the loftiest of them.

Each one was perched on a stump of wood, across the muddy mouth of a river, and each sooty-looking bird had his wings wide open in the sun.

She thought of the early summer mornings in that tiny farmhouse perched on the side of the lonely valley, where the air at least was clear and pure and bright, musical with the song of birds, and the west wind which stirred always in the pine-woods behind heralded the coming morning.

The passenger's seat is in front, perched on two wooden bars stretched obliquely upwards and backwards from the front of the vehicle.

It rained in torrents, and our little driver perched upon the box in front smoked the most infernal tobacco I ever smelt.

Morose flees for his life, and is found perched like a monkey on a crossbeam in the attic, with all his nightcaps tied over his ears.

The variety of costumes and colours too, Malay, Indian, Chinese, &c., and the pretty villas perched on each hillock among flowering trees, give it a festival air.

On the other, the wild goats climb, where they have scarce ground for the soles of their feet; and the wild fowl, perched on the trees, or on the pinnacle of a rock, look down with composed defiance at man.

Near them was the detestably picturesque castle perched upon a bracket.

The bear looked really pretty perched up there.

I looked, and finally saw Haught perched like a black eagle on a crag.