Birds
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Unserious Contents or Definition
It is a favorable dream to see birds of beautiful plumage. A wealthy and happy partner is near if a woman has dreams of this nature. Moulting and songless birds, denotes merciless and inhuman treatment of the outcast and fallen by people of wealth. To see a wounded bird, is fateful of deep sorrow caused by erring offspring. To see flying birds, is a sign of prosperity to the dreamer. All disagreeable environments will vanish before the wave of prospective good. To catch birds, is not at all bad. To hear them speak, is owning one's inability to perform tasks that demand great clearness of perception. To kill than with a gun, is disaster from dearth of harvest.
Typist: Stacey
Examples
- I shall begin to admit what you said of yourself when you first came here--that you are a bear, and want teaching by the birds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Some of these he has left on the Continent, but he has brought with him to this house a cockatoo, two canary-birds, and a whole family of white mice. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And if care was not taken in the breeding, your dogs and birds would greatly deteriorate? Plato. The Republic.
- The uprising of the star of day was hailed by triumphant strains, while the birds, heard by snatches, filled up the intervals of the music. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I have added to my collection of birds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And the birds I hear! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All this time I stood watching the turkeys to see where they flew--with my gun on my shoulder, and never once thought of levelling it at the birds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The very birds of the air, as it seems to me, give the Shivering Sand a wide berth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Tupman had saved the lives of innumerable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What, you're looking at my lodger's birds, Mr. Jarndyce? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He had birds' eggs, young birds, and the honey and honeycomb of wild bees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I will consider that in meeting her to-night I have met with one of those birds whose appearance is to the sailor the harbinger of good luck. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They killed small birds, and set spirits on fire. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The atmosphere was grey and translucent, the birds sang sharply on the young twigs, the earth would be quickening and hastening in growth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa have given their consent; and if ever canary birds were in a flutter, they are. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The birds use their vocal cords to beautiful advantage in singing, far surpassing us in many ways, but the power of speech is lacking. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They're for attracting birds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There are twenty-six land birds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The pair of them were like two wild birds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He was a big, fat, odd sort of elderly man, who kept birds and white mice, and spoke to them as if they were so many Christian children. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Typist: Stacey