34 Verbs to Use for the Word sparrows

So foolish Henry did not care What became of the great rook, That from the little sparrows took, Now and then, as 'twere by stealth, A part of their abundant wealth; Nor ever more would feed his sparrows.

There were no meadows now to cheer with their brave colors, nor could I hear the dun-headed sparrows, whose cheery notes so often relieve the silence of our highest mountains.

In nesting season it killed the brush sparrows, the mild-eyed moose-birds, and the tree-sappers.

Little Ida walked beside the millionaire in silence, trustfully holding one of his hands, and as she watched the sparrows she tried to make out what sort of sound they could be making when they hopped forward and opened their bills so wide that she could distinctly see their little tongues.

I had seen only his head and neck,enough to show him a sparrow, and almost of necessity the pine-wood sparrow.

You may take a field piece to shoot sparrows; but all the sparrows you can bring home will not be worth the charge.'

I feel in the present moment desirous to keep eternity continually before my view, and to let outward things hang more fully on the dependence of Him who suffers not a sparrow to fall to the ground without his notice.

THE BLACKBIRD But CHANTECLER From that hour, unresting, acting the sparrow night and day, the sparrow even in sleep, self-condemned to play the sparrow without respite, you have appearedfamous jay! THE BLACKBIRD But CHANTECLER Pathetic effort of a country birdkin, twisting his thick bill to talk with a city accent!

You wish to imitate the sparrow?

On the wooden board-walk in front of the cottage, hopped a gray sparrow.

They feel very heavy, and our stems ache with holding them up; do you think it just possible there may be something inside?' "'Inside!' laughed the sparrows; 'who ever heard of the inside being better than the outside?

" "My mother loves Song Sparrows," said Rap.

(They draw water out of the river by channels, and form little pools JESUS makes twelve sparrows of clay, and the other boys do the same.) Jesus.

CHANTECLER You wish to ape the sparrow of city streets!

I saw three witches That mocked the poor sparrows They carried in cages of wicker along, Till a hawk from his eyrie Swooped down like an arrow, Smote on the cages, and ended their song.

Perhaps he will show them the deadly weapon, and hope that they will take the hint; but there is too much kindness underneath his wrath for him to be capable of murdering even a thievish sparrow.

He notes the falling sparrow, and at once reaches the universal fatherly foresight and control of God.

Used to paint sparrows before the war and sell 'em for canaries.

When the account of his year's treasurership came to be audited, the following singular charge was unanimously disallowed by the bench: "Item, disbursed Mr. Allen, the gardener, twenty shillings, for stuff to poison the sparrows, by my orders."

If any average educated person were askedWhich seemed to him more wonderful, that a hen's egg should always produce a chicken, or that it should now and then produce a sparrow or a duckling?can it be doubted what answer he would give?

When it stops over the playground it hides the sun; and for a long while it had to rain gray sparrows on one of the knolls, before those who had been flying in the innermost part of the mist could again catch a glimpse of the daylight.

I recall in particular some white-crowned sparrows, the first ones I had seen in Florida.

We all know the pathetic fortitude of a famished little boy-prince of Sendai, who in the drama is made to say to his little page, "Seest thou those tiny sparrows in the nest, how their yellow bills are opened wide, and now see!

It is in musical form only that he suggests the swamp sparrow.

Again and again the birds sang, and at last I discovered one of them perched at the top of the oak, tossing back his head and warbling a white-crowned sparrow: the one regular Massachusetts migrant which I had often seen, but had never heard utter a sound.

34 Verbs to Use for the Word  sparrows