Despairing of the fairies, he resolved to consult the
birds, but now he remembered, as an odd thing, that all the
birds on the weeping beech had flown away when he alighted on it, and though that had not troubled him at the time, he saw its meaning now.
Then at last he understood, and clutched the nest and waved his thanks to the
bird as she fluttered overhead.
These Mr Allworthy endeavoured to assuage, promising her a much finer
bird: but she declared she would never have another.
But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the
bird and the horse given him for his own.
The number, tameness, and disgusting habits of the carrion-feeding hawks of South America make them pre-eminently striking to any one accustomed only to the
birds of Northern Europe.
Bird, compassionately, as the woman slowly unclosed her large, dark eyes, and looked vacantly at her.
help!" "Oh, let him alone," sneered another, and this was the most trying of all, "he is such a beautiful young man; I am sure the
bird and the cage must have been kept for him."
If I put the ring upon the little finger of my left hand, then I can fly like a
bird through the air wherever I wish to go.
Their circumspection proved to me that these
birds knew what to expect from bipeds of our species, and I concluded that, if the island was not inhabited, at least human beings occasionally frequented it.
Stepan Arkadyevitch shot two more
birds and Levin two, of which one was not found.
Unfortunately for the wood-chopper, notwithstanding his vaunt, he did not see this
bird until it was too late to fire as it approached, and he pulled the trigger at the unlucky moment when it was darting immediately over his head.
So it is with the nests of
birds, which vary partly in dependence on the situations chosen, and on the nature and temperature of the country inhabited, but often from causes wholly unknown to us: Audubon has given several remarkable cases of differences in nests of the same species in the northern and southern United States.