He will be disappointed in not receiving the grosbeak, of which I had spoken to him.

The worry and the imprecations were wasted, after all, as, Heaven be thanked, they so often are; for within two or three days I saw other blue grosbeaks and heard them sing.

Before me, in the leafy top of an oak sapling, sat a blue grosbeak.

Behind me a redbird was whistling (cardinal grosbeak, I have been accustomed to call him, but I like the Southern name better, in spite of its ambiguity), now in eager, rapid tones, now slowly and with a dying fall.