Over the grassy stretch before the porch he chased robins tirelessly, though with indifferent success.

In the course of a trial of ten days, he brought in three robins, a small squirrel, and a crow; maintaining that he had also wounded a pigeon, and frightened a whole flock of quails.

The blue jay is a near relative of the crow, and, like him, omnivorous, harsh-voiced, predaceous, a robber of birds' nests; so that if you hear the robins during their nesting-time making an unusual clamor about the house, the chances are you will get a glimpse of this brilliant marauder, sneaking away with a troop of them in pursuit.

kick, kick against; recalcitrate^, kick against the pricks; oppose &c 708; fly in the face of; lift the hand against &c (attack) 716; rise up in arms &c (war) 722; strike, turn out; draw up a round robin &c (remonstrate) 932; revolt &c (disobey) 742; make a riot.

"It's no more than you would expect from the girl who rescued that robin," he said warmly.

"If it hadn't been for your doing that I wouldn't have been in time to save that robin.

A little boy named Charley stood at the window with his mother one morning, watching the robins as they enjoyed their morning meal of cherries from the tree near their house.

"We're going to paint a robin on it as a record of your brave deed," said Migwan.

Who called that robin a piccolo player?

Dangling by a string which was tangled about one of her feet, hung a mother robin, desperately struggling to get free, fluttering, fluttering, beating the air frantically with her wings and uttering piercing cries of anguish that drove the hearers almost to desperation.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Oh! make us glad with the things that are young; Give our hearts the quickened thrills That used to answer each robin that sung In the days of daffodils.

It came to his understanding, however, that if you mouth a helpless baby robin, a hand or a stick falls upon you hurtfully, even if you evade it for the moment and seclude yourself under a porch until it would seem that so trifling an occurrence must have been utterly forgotten.

As I had no need to hurry, I loitered to pick ragged-robins upon the banks, flowers dear to me from old associations.

The cat allowed mice to roam merrily through the grain bins, preferring robins and sparrows, especially young and happy mothers, to a proper diet; was fond of watching the chickens with wicked, malicious, greedy, dangerous eyes, and was always ready to make a sly spring for my canaries.

QUEEN ELINOR enters, offering to pull ROBIN from her; but they enfold each other, and sit down within the curtains.

In the next scene a raccoon is attempting to seize a robin, which he has frightened off her nest.

exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against, cry out against, raise one's voice against. decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.

An occasional shower patters on the dry leaves, but it does not silence the robin on the outskirts of the wood: indeed, he sings louder than ever, though the song-sparrow and the bluebird are silent.

Accordingly he bestirred himself to contrive squirrel-traps, and waded the snowy woods with his gun, making sad havoc among the few winter birds, sparing neither robin, sparrow, nor tiny nuthatch, and the pleasure of seeing Tom eat and grow fat was his great reward.

The deacon had got on about his longest face, and when the deacon's face is about down to its wust, why, it would stop a robin singin'there couldn't nothin' stan' it.

What will you have?" trilled the robin in joyous frenzy.

"Allquite mad!" CHAPTER VII "WAKE ROBIN" Markham climbed the hill slowly, pushing tobacco into his pipe.

You would have killed a robin if you hit it with her first loaf of seven grain bread, but she was getting the hang of it.

she asked a robin that had perched itself on the edge of the porch and was looking at her knowingly.