No matter how the train lurched and staggered over that fearful road bed, these two swayed in their places as easily and as safely as birds on swinging perches.

Around the cabin are placed avenues with twisted perches, also covered with birdlime.

And I am very small, and love to dwell in lowly vales; So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head.

The birds, whose duties lay outside, were by this time asleep on their perches, and we forbore to disturb them.

The marsh, for miles on each side, has only from a foot to two feet of water on it, but there is a channel for boats marked out by perches.

Hardly were the men on their perches, before they saw a bear walk into the brush on one side of the valley.

The whole country bears the appearance of an extensive and thick forest: this arises from the nature of the enclosures; they are extremely small, often not more than fifty or sixty perches, surrounded with strong hedges planted in the banks.

When they have a spell of cloudy wether, fowls keep rite on roostin, and don't leave their perches ontil they tumble off, starved to deth.

The edifice of love that is raised upon the ruins of a great passion can compare with the original no more than can the paltry mosque that perches upon the mound of Jonah with the glories of the palace that lies entombed beneath.

Bear him to no dismal tomb under city churches; Take him to the fragrant fields, by the silver birches, Where the whippoorwill shall mourn, where the oriole perches: Make his mound with sunshine on it, Where the bee will dine upon it, Where the lamb hath lain upon it, And the rain will rain upon it.

The stone floor was strewed with clean rushes, and lying about on tables were trashes, collars, and whips for hounds, as well as hoods, perches, jesses, and bells for hawks; whilst a variety of odds and ends, such as crossbows and jumping-poles, were scattered about the apartment.

Presently a little bird, with an eye keener even than the cruel hawk's, comes out from the hazels and perches on a post some ten yards away.

The perches above are covered with birds whose natural antipathies have been subdued into mutual affection by the law of kindness.

Scarcely in autumn have the leaves begun to drop from their high perches silently downward when the birds begin to drop away from the bare boughs silently southward.

Not a little fop among them, having proposed and been accepted, but perches on a limb, and has the air of putting his hands mannishly under his coattails and crying out at me, "Hello!

"Why?" "No puedo" Dolores meantime took a stick, knocked three of the finest from their perches, and quietly wrung their necks.

"An aker of land is the quantity of one hundred and sixty perches."Ib., p. 93.

He runs about on the ground like a pipit, but also frequently perches on some bush to go through a strange flight-song performance.

He perches motionless, bolt upright, and even then his black coloring advertises him for a quarter of a mile round about.

It perches on the top of a bush or tree watching for its prey, and it shines in the sun like a silver mirror.

But it nests in burrows which it digs itself, one bird usually digging, while the other bird perches in a bush near by.

As we left the steamy valley and wound up a rapidly ascending path among the lower fringes and outliers of the forest our spirits rose, and by the time we had clambered up the last stiff pull and emerged from the darkly-wooded track into the little clearing, where perches the village of Babamarishi, we were positively cheerful.

" "And oh!" says he, "what leetle bird Is singing in yon high tree, So every shrill and long-drawn note Like bubbles breaks in me?" Says I, "It is the mavis That perches in the tree, And sings so shrill, and sings so sweet, When dawn comes up the sea.

You know well that a furlong ought to be forty perches long and four wide, and the King's perch is sixteen feet and a half: then an acre is sixty-six feet in width.

Youth with its white-flaming ideals is the great separator; by middle age most of us have become so shaken down, on life's rough road, to a certain equality of bearing and forbearing, that miscellaneous comradeship becomes easy and rather comforting; while extremely aged people are as compatible and as miserable as disabled old eagles, grouped with a few inches of each other's beaks and claws on the sleek perches of a cage.