Perched

Examples

• We had lain in hay and talked and shot sparrows with an air-rifle when they perched in the triangle cut high up in the wall of the barn. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The birds were chirping, perched on the windows sills and deserted thresholds of the doors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Fledgeby turned into the counting-house, perched himself on a business stool, and cocked his hat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At all events his face was tied up in a black silk handkerchief, which, with his hat perched on the top of it, was far from improving his appearance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Perched on its eternal hills, white and domed and solid, massed together and hooped with high gray walls, the venerable city gleamed in the sun. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We passed Ramah, and Beroth, and on the right saw the tomb of the prophet Samuel, perched high upon a commanding eminence. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There he perched, hurling taunts and insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The way to the shore descended from the bank on which the house was perched to a walk above the water planted with weeping willows. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A fellow can't live on books, said Laurie, shaking his head as he perched on a table opposite. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Here and there, towers were perched high up on acclivities which seemed almost inaccessible. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He turned round to us with the bird perched on his shoulder. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He is perched on a large raw-boned hunter, half-covered by a capacious saddle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I would pay a fine, or undergo an imprisonment, rather than write for a show and to order, perched up on a platform. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We had a fine race, of a mile, with an Arab perched on a camel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Instead he perched lightly upon a smaller branch twenty feet above the raging captive. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Typed by Larry