英语词汇“bird of passage”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

In his early years, Daniel Klein darted through Europe like a bird of passage, moving from town to town under the same vagabond spell that draws so many young backpackers today. Q&A: ‘Always Journeying to Someplace New Gets Old Fast’ 2014-01-14T20:23:22Z

The effect is to make the inhabitants of the tale—birds of passage, all of them—seem doubly caged. The Grim Rapacity of “The Iron Orchard” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Nearly half of Italian immigrants were “birds of passage” who eventually returned to Italy. How America became Italian 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Considerable memory must be attributed to birds of passage, a memory which, probably owing to the absence of disturbing thoughts, acts with the precision of that of some idiots. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z

The days were often almost insufferably warm, and the birds of passage that crowded the hotels were beginning to take flight to more Northern latitudes. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z

“These summer birds of passage,” as an 1883 article referred to them, stayed with friends who owned vacation homes or settled in black-owned establishments such as the Foblers’ Woodbine Cottage, where my family stayed. City Room: Answers About Black Life in 19th-Century New York, Part 4 2012-02-24T21:00:26Z

For many years most of the early Daguerreotypists were birds of passage, frequently on the wing. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z

But I shall still have time to paint it, after, in the first place, explaining shortly how, like birds of passage, he had contrived to soar away over the dim cloudy Harvest. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z

Ducks, particularly teal, flew past us, and we observed, also, many other birds of passage on their flight. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z

Jerusalem attracted the flow of pilgrims from the West as Antioch never could; and though the great majority of the pilgrims were only birds of passage, there were always many who stayed in the East. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z

These facts are particularly illustrated with us by the very large element known as “birds of passage.” The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z

There were not wanting birds of passage who, while hibernating among the philosophic haunts of London, gathered up the seeds of infidelity to scatter them broadcast upon the soil of France. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z

Hence the traveler and the tourist always are welcome, and whether they be deeply learned scientific investigators or mere birds of passage seeking novelty every provision is made to aid them in their travels. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z

Most of the birds of passage were gone; no swallows were to be seen, and the wild pigeons passed by in large flocks. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z

It is, like the Fieldfare, a bird of passage, reaching us from the north about the same time with the Woodcock, in October. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z

It is a bird of passage, visiting its customary breeding places in the summer and wintering in southern Europe. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z

An appointment like this is naturally more important to him than it would be to Ronny, who is by way of being a bird of passage. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z

The tjäder, though not a bird of passage, is migratory, or rather wandering in domicile, and appears to undertake very purposeless and absurd journeys. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z

The most interesting ones were the birds of passage: they had always something to tell. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z

It is a bird of passage, both on the Continent and in England, arriving and taking its departure at about the same time with the Swallow. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z

The Common Starling is a bird of passage, arriving in England about the beginning of March and leaving some time in October. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z

The length of time that birds of passage remain in Germany differs considerably with the different species. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z

“We are birds of passage, and stop only as long as it pleases us.” The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z

As for the whites, they long remained mere birds of passage. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z

In the latter district it appears as a bird of passage in November; and about Martinmas it is so abundant as to become a staple article of food. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z

Guests began to come to the election, with the swallows and other birds of passage. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z

While there he became interested in railroad enterprises, which eventually extended through remote and varied sections of the country and 13 kept him a bird of passage for many years. Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z

As has been stated, birds of passage did not go beyond the sea that winter; the rivers did not freeze over, therefore the whole country was full of water-fowl, especially over the marshes. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z

In every sense they are birds of passage: any ploughboy will tell you so. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z

This Spirit assumes as many shapes as Satan himself, and altogether appears to be a very curious bird of passage. Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester 2011-07-22T02:00:20.277Z

Are they more than "The sounds sent down at night By birds of passage in their flight"? Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z

All the more welcome to Johanna were the first spring breezes, the coming of the first birds of passage, and the bursting of the sheaths of the first blossoms. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z

Nothing would have pleased him better than to steer directly for the vessel, and see what effect was produced on board by the sight of this strange bird of passage hovering above the tops. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z

The officials, on the other hand, were mere birds of passage, who took no real interest in the country. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z

You were right, however," pursued Julienne, and would fain continue in her mirthful mood; "love without marriage is like a bird of passage, who seats himself upon a mast, which itself moves along. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z

The household belongings here are, as we have said, somewhat more respectable and extensive than those of the former nests occupied by these birds of passage. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z

You meet many English soldiers whose appearance is creditable to the country, and amongst the birds of passage are many Americans. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z

But I shall still have time to paint it, after, in the first place, explaining shortly how, like birds of passage, he had contrived to soar away over the dim, cloudy Harvest. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z

"Yes, so I hear; what birds of passage you men are; but you don't leave until Monday, when your good little wife and Miss Crew come to me during your absence." A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z

Badger, another bird of passage, became tax assessor. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z

“No. I regret to say that I am not a native of these delightful environs,” said he, “I am a bird of passage.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z

How could this mistress be expected to take any interest in or to consider herself responsible for the well-being of such birds of passage? How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z

He felt only that he must have war with Assyria, just as a bird of passage feels that in the month Pachons it must go northward. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z

She asked the birds of passage if they had seen her prince, and sometimes they had news of him. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z

My Dear Cousin Natalie—Last night I arrived here direct from St. Petersburg, being merely a bird of passage, and on my way to London. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z

He looked at her thoughtfully as he repeated this definition of himself, evidently wondering how she liked “birds of passage.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z

This "curiosity"—for it is hardly more—is reached by a cable-lift or funicular railway, which seems principally to be conducted for the delectation of those winter birds of passage yclept "Riviera tourists." The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z

We are such birds of passage, my dear madam, that we can really never plan for the future. Magda A Play in Four Acts

The birds of passage wakened from their sleep and sang their sweetest songs. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z

Ten minutes might have passed, when two withered leaves fluttered over her head and sank like tired birds of passage swimming on to the water. The Undying Past

Since the last bird of passage left us we had nowhere seen a single living creature, right up to February 28th. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

As soon as ever they can break for a moment the thread that binds them, they come, poor birds of passage, to settle, take refuge, and enjoy here at least a moment's vital heat. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846

The air was filled with the call of the birds of passage. The Voice of the Pack

When birds of passage reached this land of darkness, they trilled their softest songs and went to rest, and when they waked, they soared away in search of brighter lands. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z

But half, at least, of these dull people, he renumbered, were birds of passage only; to-morrow or the next day they would take the train. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath

As the year waned, and the winter night impended, all the sea animals and birds of passage which had swarmed around us and awakened our longings during the short summer deserted us one by one. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

Many are rough country people who are evidently in Zaragoza as birds of passage. Glories of Spain

I soon saw that I should only be a bird of passage here. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6

Maiden Matanuska understood the songs of birds as well, and when the birds of passage sang of other lands, where there was light of day, she listened eagerly. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z

For she, too, might be a bird of passage, leaving to-morrow or the next day, leaving that very night, perhaps. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath

"I think he saw The Perfect Flapper," said Maurice "and has been trying ever since to find out whether she were a don's daughter or a theatrical bird of passage." Sinister Street, vol. 2

I praised the arrangement as just and excellent, but said that, being a bird of passage, I would prefer not to make it. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

In the spring of 1916 the legations and embassies at Washington had their birds of passage. The Tempering

It was from these sweet songs the birds of passage sang that Maiden Matanuska came to know that there was such a thing as light of day. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z

Those independent rulers who establish themselves for a space on the confines of China are mere ephemeral excrescences; birds of passage who must betake themselves away, if they can, when their little hour has struck. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar

I live in the hotel; a bird of passage never has a comfortable nest. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I.

It is, properly speaking, a bird of passage; though even in the Eastern States individuals are found during moderate winters, as well as in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom

"Are you a resident here—or a bird of passage like ourselves?" The Gambler A Novel

You're in all senses a bird of passage, Philip," he said, "but I know that whatever happens tomorrow or rather today we're going to see each other again. The Guns of Europe

Octon had been merely the temporary tenant of a hired house—a mere bird of passage—and a solitary bird besides, neither giving nor receiving confidences. The Great Miss Driver

There was an elephant at Chitor, to take birds of passage up the hill, and she—she was fifty-one years old, and her name was Gerowlia—came to the dak-bungalow for the Englishman. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel

We had long, as it were, broken with the world, for all we had seen of mankind had been a few Tartar horsemen dashing across the Land of Grass, like so many birds of passage. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2]

The English come as birds of passage, and depart when they have made their fortunes. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses

The birds of passage often paid a visit to the weathercock and told him tales of foreign lands, of large flocks passing through the air, and of encounters with robbers and birds of prey. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series

On the verge of the horizon a flight of birds of passage formed a long dark line against the sky. Toilers of the Sea

The ducks, being birds of passage, spending their summers up North, are acquainted with men and their arts, and are comparatively shy, but the native birds are very tame and can easily be approached. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

Hence men who have travelled, birds of passage, and beasts of prey, are distinguished among other faculties, for a remarkable intelligence. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance.

We are as birds of passage, temporary residents for transient purposes, with no home in our islands at all. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses

Already had its topmost branches pierced the clouds, which floated beneath them like troops of birds of passage or large white swans; every leaf seemed gifted with sight, as if it possessed eyes to see. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series

He and Anne were birds of passage, who wintered in Italy or Spain or Egypt as the whim seized him; and spent the summer in Switzerland or Tyrol, or elsewhere. The Red Symbol

Only the gods could tell where that bird of passage might fly after his visit to Celtiberia! Sónnica

He went towards the nets that he had spread in the hope of snaring some bird of passage during the snow storm. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium

In all other matters, the Station was content, for officials were birds of passage, and what had sufficed the residents for years, was good enough for today. Banked Fires

Pressed forward, or solicited onward by the warmth, the birds of passage commence their annual migration, keeping pace with the developing vegetation beneath. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition

Their crews commenced to shower the shrapnel around and below the bird of passage, whose mission, whatever it might prove to be, could mean only evil to the Teuton cause. Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret

"It was more than a mere worldly impulse," says a famous northern divine, "that urged the northern nations to wander forth, and to seek, like birds of passage, a milder clime." The History of Freedom

“I am very glad, Signor Ewart, that I have been able to catch you here; you are such a bird of passage, you know,” he said in Italian. The Count's Chauffeur

What a change in this transient attitude might be made by a policy of having land available and usable for such birds of passage. A Stake in the Land

He appears, however, to have had a delicacy rare among the musical birds of passage and of prey who come to feed on the unwieldy wealth of England. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

And then I too, like a bird of passage that has alighted for a moment in some sheltered garden-ground, must needs go on my way. The Thread of Gold

Nor would he permit her to learn French, although he understood it himself; women, he thought, are not birds of passage, that are to be eternally changing their place of abode. The History of Sandford and Merton

Most of the birds of passage had already taken their way south; we had met small flocks of them at sea. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I

You could not go behind them and find her wanting in the social guarantees which women on steamers, if not men, exact of lonely birds of passage who are not mother-birds. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse

But a few birds of passage I have seen have vexed me with their confident ignorance, and caused me to believe that English Gladstonians are the densest donkeys under the sun. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule

All the missions, except the British, were birds of passage, who departed upon fulfilling their errands of securing American aid in directions where it was most required. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources

Coralie's a newcomer; such women are birds of passage, and before she grows too famous the police will move her on. Thurston of Orchard Valley

The ruddy square of comfortable light —— him, as the beacon blaze —— The bird of passage. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions

You cannot flee from it; you cannot hide from it; it is swifter than the birds of passage, and swifter than the breezes that scatter clouds. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831

The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

But there! he is such a bird of passage that one never knows where he may be to-morrow.” The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance

They are only birds of passage at Sarawak: when they grow rich they prefer to spend their money in their native country. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak

Madame des Ursins, who was only at that moment a bird of passage, was of those in whom the delight of pleasing and the feeling of success doubly enhanced every innate grace. Political Women, Vol. 2

They had arrived, accompanied by the birds of passage, the stag, the antelope, and all the creatures of the forest who wished to take part in their joy. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Nor must we forget that the Dutch are not mere "birds of passage" in Java, as is the case with the English in India. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore

They were birds of passage, who, after wintering on this "Fortunate Isle," left no other trace than an undying tradition. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan

It was almost like a tree to look upon; and all the birds of passage bowed before it. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales

They were only birds of passage, and would, in a month or so, give place to another arrival, about to disappear, in its turn, from a similar cause. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17

Then beautiful Helga rose as a mighty swan, and spread her wings with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage flying through the air. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Fectnor was an evil bird of passage who had come and gone. Children of the Desert

But a very large and constantly increasing proportion of the Uitlanders are not birds of passage; they contemplate a long residence in the country, or to make it their permanent home. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902

Blossoms and leaves were gone from all the trees, and storm and rain ruled, and gave them neither peace nor rest; and the birds of passage had flown. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales

The "Alabama" is to be a bird of passage, flitting from port to port, and hovering about the highways of travel, to lie in wait for the merchant-vessels of the North. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2

Already had his topmost branches pierced the clouds, which floated beneath them like troops of birds of passage, or large white swans; every leaf seemed gifted with sight, as if it possessed eyes to see. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

It was autumn, the period when leaves fall off and grow damp, and London birds of passage fly home to their smoky nests. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster

Both meals and beds are good, and the rates are cheap, something less than nine francs a day for birds of passage. The Automobilist Abroad

The birds of passage, and the stag, the antelope, and all the creatures of the forest followed them, for all wished to have a part in their joy. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales

Aquatic birds of passage of the auk kind on our western coasts; called also razor-bills. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

In the forest the wonderful plant still continued to bloom till it grew and became almost a tree, and all the birds of passage bowed themselves before it. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

A perfect drought prevails during those months; vegetation appears completely dead; and all birds of passage abandon the country. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2

Are we like those birds of passage which fly away and conceal themselves on the approach of the bad season? With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds

His day was a waste place, his brain a parched field in the rain, his thoughts were birds of passage, his dreams a super-life. The Goose Man

I was simply a bird of passage, and would, in all probability, go away on the morrow, never to see them again. "The Pomp of Yesterday"

We acknowledged the kindness by a remark on bold bright birds of passage that find the seasons obedient to their will, and wing their way through worlds still rejoicing in the perfect year. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851

These are all birds of passage, spending the winter here, and the summer farther north. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2

The result is our people in India are birds of passage as they never were before, ready to return to their own land as soon as circumstances will allow them. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877

The traveller, bird of passage he, Stiff, overstarched and insolent, Awakens secret merriment By his embarrassed dignity— Mute glances interchanged aside Meet punishment for him provide. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse

As I say, let me hybernate until the birds of passage come and the young leaves are green in the spring. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

Perhaps I was equally reluctant to go back and prove that the adventure was ended, that she had been a bird of passage who had gone on with no thought of return. The Thing from the Lake

Few people they met, and those, for the most part, various types of vagabonds and nomads; some wild and savage, roaming like beasts from place to place; others, harmless, mere bedraggled birds of passage. Under the Rose

He felt only that he must have war with Assyria, just as a bird of passage feels that in the mouth Pachons it must go northward. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

If he only knows it as a bird of passage knows the country he soars over in his migrations? The Conquest of Bread

And, accordingly, we discover that, even after he has abandoned the occupation, and ceased to be a bird of passage, he never fails to turn his learning to a good account. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States

But this would only hold good of the wading and water birds; it would not account for the migration of the many other birds of passage. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

The natives returned regularly with the season, like birds of passage—avenging the losses of their last retreat: they retired at the usual time—diminished, but unsubdued. The History of Tasmania , Volume II

For most of the time, however, both sisters were birds of passage. Mary Wollstonecraft

The bird of passage has the faculty of finding its way and the instinct to put it in action at certain periods. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

How many of the American birds of passage who flock to London every summer know the distinction between Mitre and Capel Courts? The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2

They have common fowls, ostriches, and a bird larger than our blackbird 53; also storks, which latter are birds of passage, and arrive in the spring and disappear at the approach of winter; swallows, &c. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa

Mrs. Armstrong seemed to like the life fairly well, and to find a pleasure in the fleeting society of the birds of passage who went and came. Despair's Last Journey

The wild fowl are mere birds of passage at the Red River, and but few were shot, as they passed over the colony, for our relief, in the want of provisions. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.

She would be the one against whom Tochatti might be expected to wreak her spite——" "Yes, but you see Nurse Trevor was only a bird of passage, so to speak. Afterwards

I was merely a bird of passage, a rara avis, a visitor without an eye on the almighty dollar. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2

We have described here birds of the Polar Regions and of the Tropics; birds of passage, birds of prey; the song of the nightingale and of the robin, &c. The Cockatoo's Story

Our neighbours, if such they could be called in this wild region, were “birds of passage.” In the Rocky Mountains

Distinguish carefully the birds of passage that stop only a short time to rest on their journeys north and south, and those that stay and help to make the summer. Bird Day; How to prepare for it

And we were birds of passage, mother and I; always moving about.” The Independence of Claire

Dear Sir,—I was much pleased to see, among the collection of birds from Gibraltar, some of those short-winged English summer birds of passage, concerning whose departure we have made so much inquiry. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1

Are they weaker than birds of passage, the children whom I have borne? The Voyageur and Other Poems

First, there was a vague rumor among the Indian voyageurs, who were ever gliding back and forward on the labyrinthine waters of that north land like the birds of passage overhead. Lords of the North

Fur traders flocked to the St. Lawrence like birds of passage. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

The traveller is looked upon as a bird of passage, whose visit is short, and which the vanity of the visited wishes to make agreeable. The Young Duke

The common wild pigeon, or stock-dove, is a bird of passage in the south of England, seldom appearing till towards the end of November; is usually the latest winter-bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1

It is a good sign for swallows to build their nests at one's windows; but if a person destroy a swallow's nest, or kill any of those birds of passage, he should prepare for misfortunes. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales

You thought the bird of passage, he come not back at all! Lords of the North

Instead of canoes gliding up and down the Saskatchewan like birds of passage, reign a silence and solitude as of the dead. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

The streets below, white under the moon, looked empty and deserted, and the hotel beneath him gave up no sound to tell of the many birds of passage who sheltered within it. Brood of the Witch-Queen

May 12th: a very mute bird: this is the latest summer bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1

The other women felt that she was a bird of passage, that the frozen Arctic could be no more than a whim to her. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North

And when it comes to a show-down I'm not aching to be a bird of passage. North of Fifty-Three

Our neighbours, if such they could be called in this wild region, were "birds of passage." In the Rocky Mountains A Tale of Adventure

Well, I may be only a transient here, a bird of passage nesting for a year in the towers of the Hall. The Mayor of Warwick

I well remember that after the very severe spring in the year 1739-40, summer birds of passage were very scarce. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1

Already he towered above the clouds, which drifted below him, now like a troop of dark-plumaged birds of passage, now like flocks of large, white swans. The Ontario Readers Third Book

The system does not appear to be advantageous to the increase of population: the wives of these birds of passage hardly bear two children a-piece. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government

One other noticeable feature there was about these birds of passage. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891

Life is like a bird of passage which alights and tarries for a time and is gone, and the places where it perched and nested and led forth its brood know it no more. The Breath of Life

I have seen very much myself, for bird of passage. The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad'

Hearne kept in camp till the coming of the goose month—April—when birds of passage wended their way north. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark

July was not quite over, and yet all the birds of passage had migrated. Phineas Finn The Irish Member

Occasional society there was of a certain kind, intermittent, coming and going like birds of passage. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891

The young “general” is a bird of passage. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine

With the dawning of summer, the birds of passage winged their flight northward. Princess

What could a bird of passage know of the deep mysteries of procedure it took a life-time to learn? The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood

Swans and pelicans are also birds of passage, and occasionally visit these unknown lands. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels

The music of the pine-boughs had a more melancholy cadence, and birds of passage took their flight. Atmâ A Romance

Lady Garnett and her companion were but newly arrived, and, as birds of passage, preferred the hotel to a pension. A Comedy of Masks A Novel

Teach me, O bird of passage, this, To seek, in faith a better bliss On other unknown shores! Verses for Children and Songs for Music

Horse- and cattle-thieves, killers, escaped convicts, came and went—ominous birds of passage, the scavengers of war and banditry. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

Do you know that there are a set of men and women, in Paris and Lyons, who live elegantly by lying in wait and by catching every bird of passage?—but particularly the English gold-finch. A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1

The very fact that he is a bird of passage in the country makes him absolutely independent of the class interests and personal bias to which the politician is almost always liable. Indian Unrest

"The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming," and so do all birds of passage. The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories

It is a bird of passage, and only visits Media in the autumn, preparatory to retreating into the warm district of Mazandoran for the winter months. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

Still, remembering what a bird of passage he had been, and the many experiences he must have had by land and sea, all that was not to be wondered at. Austin and His Friends

This world is a mere bird of passage, Miss Norali; and it behooves us to be ever on the wing for futurity and premeditation. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

"I will tolerate another man under thy roof if thou wilt but make this pretty bird of passage a permanency," he said to the Greek, after a silent study of Laodice's beauty. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem

The birds of passage take their flight To other lands—of warmth and light— Where orient breezes blow. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827

"There's a bird of passage now, coming down from the north as swift as a swallow." The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne

"I am afraid my bird of passage will never be satisfied with the little home nest again," she said, sadly. The Little Colonel's House Party

On the Rive Gauche, to be sure, we are, for the most part, birds of passage; a student arrives, tarries a little, then departs. Grey Roses

Of birds of passage, dormice, snakes, bats, swallows, quails, ringdoves, stare, chaffinch, hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, crossbill, rails and cranes. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

Within, and about him, hovered a stirring consciousness of ancient, unchanging India; utterly impervious to mere birds of passage from the West; veiled, elusive, yet almost hideously real. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India

If you are only a bird of passage, you will often find a box or so in your room. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892

Throughout Europe silk strings are being prepared to catch human birds of passage with. A Wanderer in Holland

How wonderful is that instinct by which the bird of passage performs its annual migration! McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader

Other birds of passage have been drowned by thousands in the sea, or have settled on ships quite exhausted with fatigue. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

They, too, are birds of passage, working in the mines and steel mills for the coveted wages that shall free them from debt at home and insure their independence. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making

It was the impersonal abode of the male bird of passage. Jaffery

Wandering tales seem to alight, like birds of passage, on successive people in lands and epochs widely apart, mere hallmarks of certain characteristics re-embodied. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477

"That you were only a bird of passage." Nightfall

All birds of passage can exist in the climates, where they are produced. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life

"It is estimated that birds of passage fly over two hundred miles a day, if they keep on the wing for six hours." Willis the Pilot

Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh: Thy woes are birds of passage, transitory: Thy spirit, circled with a living glory, In summer still a summer joy resumeth. The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

But Mrs. Downey was proud of that too, as arguing that the poor bird of passage had stayed to smooth her ruffled plumage. The Divine Fire

The birds of passage generally arrive at the end of April or during May, and leave in September or October. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

It was the boast of Lucullus that he changed his climate with the birds of passage. Poems

Your Highness," he said quickly, "we are not birds of passage to rule our flight by seasons. Clementina

The birds of passage who are now crowding out of the towns have had little pleasure in the spring, and their blissful days are only now beginning. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour

He knew them so well, these eternal, restless birds of passage, draggled with their flight from one boarding-house to another. The Divine Fire

Under the firs the red madrona shines, The graceful tan-oaks, fairest of them all, Lean lovingly unto the sturdy pines, In whose far tops the birds of passage call. The California Birthday Book

Even kings and parliaments have no right in moral or international law to permit year after year the wholesale slaughter of birds of passage of species that no civilized man has a right to kill. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation

If in the flights of his imagination he is like the strong-winged bird of passage, in his exquisite choice of descriptive epithets he reminds me of the tenui-rostrals. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, whose heart could never nest there, but must be ever on the wing, a wild bird of passage in the track of a ship— I sat up with a galvanic start. Spanish Doubloons

The birds of passage raised their heads with a faint flutter. The Divine Fire

Even in the torrid climate of Egypt, squalls of rain passed over like stray birds of passage. Kimono

Well, sir," said she, "you are a bird of passage, here to-day and gone to-morrow, and it don't matter much what I tell you, so long as I don't tell no lies. A Perilous Secret

Only one bird of passage migrates across the intervening sea. The Long White Cloud

He was a Southern boy—a bird of passage caught in the North—and his music had that sweet, soothing note that cheered the men who fought under the Stars and Bars. The Court of Boyville

Mrs. Downey tried to talk to the birds of passage; but the birds of passage would talk to nobody but each other. The Divine Fire

The birds of passage, whose stay shed a transient glory on the gay city, are legion. Somerset

The greater number are fixed constantly in this vast city; some only come like birds of passage, at the approach of great occasions, or during the summer season. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829

The public pays, they admire and they go; in any case they are only birds of passage who come once, and when they go they do not return. The Shadow of the Cathedral

Most of these were mere birds of passage, who made a few experiments at government--conciliatory or the reverse, as the case might be--and so departed again. The Story of Ireland

First then, at the top of the table, sat two elderly ladies, dishevelled birds of passage, guests of a day and a night. The Divine Fire

I'm a bird of passage," she answered, smiling, "and I've only to unfold my wings and fly away from the smoke of scandal. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

I am a mere bird of passage here, just as you are. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel

I am a bird of passage, you see; I have alighted here because I'm tired, ill—I don't just know what's the matter, but deeply broken in spirit anyhow. The Torrent Entre Naranjos

To this tireless-winged bird of passage farming was not a loose trade, and the news that his son was pledged to agrarian pursuits shocked him. The Wrong Twin

Ben thought about them as birds of passage, and the thought amused him. The Sky Line of Spruce

The people generally are exceedingly uncouth, and between Arthez and Millau, where a tourist is probably the rarest of all birds of passage, the stranger must not expect to meet with a reception invariably cordial. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine

From childhood, she had known what are the obligations of the wife of the captain of a ship when he stops at home for a few days, like a bird of passage. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel

The "Melton of the west," it contains a large number of hunting residents who are not mere "birds of passage," but men who live the best part of the year in or near the town. A Cotswold Village

Even formerly, when all the birds were so tame, it was impossible by Pernety's account to kill the black-necked swan — a bird of passage, which probably brought with it the wisdom learnt in foreign countries. The Voyage of the Beagle

Also that she was only a brilliant bird of passage, who, in a few months, would be caught in the dazzling net of the great world. The Shuttle

Whereas, I in comparison, felt myself a mere bird of passage in that port. The Shadow Line; a confession

The air was full of birds of passage, steering westward and northward over Grünewald, an army of specks to the up-looking eye. Prince Otto, a Romance

The water-fowl disported themselves over its surface, and the birds of passage overhead noisily expressed their surprise at the excitement and confusion in our midst. Indian Boyhood

It doesn't mean anything at all—her coquetting with that bird of passage. The Flirt

I thought how each twinkling window denoted the presence of some bird of passage, some wanderer temporarily abiding in our midst. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

The only sound was the tiny, feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the heavens at an immense height. Les Misérables

They knew they were birds of passage as they walked in the sun in their khaki coats. The Happy Foreigner

"Comfort in Travel," that want of all tourist and commercial birds of passage, is invariably filled on the Michigan Central, "The Niagara Falls Route." Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895

She knew all the birds of passage, and where they should go in autumn, and she sent each flock on its way. Classic Myths

"And the feather," said Alice, whom fear had rendered apprehensive of slight tokens, "means flight—and a woodcock is a bird of passage." Woodstock; or, the Cavalier

You are a permanent resident, and I a mere bird of passage. The Case of Richard Meynell

It was time to go, following all the other birds of passage that war had dragged through the town of Metz—time to make way for the toiling civilian with his impedimenta of civilisation. The Happy Foreigner

Know, God and Nature only are the same: In man, the judgment shoots at flying game; A bird of passage! gone as soon as found, Now in the moon perhaps, now under ground. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

So, by some analogous sense, the birds of passage are informed of the approach of winter and the return of spring. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860

Bridecakes are bores to carry about from place to place, and Miss Priest and her mother were rather birds of passage. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

Some countries have their birds of passage, and some their follies of passage, which it is scarcely worth while to shoot as they fly. Tales and Novels — Volume 04

These birds of passage come before their time: Stave off the crowd upon the Spaniard there. Queen Mary and Harold

Poor bird of passage! so I was; but, father, They say that you are wise in winged things, And know the ways of Nature. Becket and other plays

The rapid flight and cries of a few birds of passage alone broke the monotony of the scene. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude

At best he was but a bird of passage. With the Procession

Mr. Halstead, I am a journeyman day laborer in your city--the merest bird of passage, with my watch at the pawnbroker's. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography

Mr. Halstead, I am a journeyman day laborer in your city—the merest bird of passage, with my watch at the pawnbroker's. Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography

Herbert, take out a score of armed men To guard this bird of passage to her cage; And watch Fitzurse, and if he follow thee, Make him thy prisoner. Becket and other plays

Lotta had inherited eight or ten town and country houses, and for the moment was perched like a bird of passage, on her Roman villa, called Seven Hills. Ptomaine Street

What a nice thing to have an unwatched place like that where a poor bird of passage can creep in and make his nest, and not trouble any one. The Desert and the Sown

But all of these, like stately birds "Sailing with supreme dominion Through the upper realms of air," were attended by shorter poems, sonnets, "birds of passage", as the poet called his swallow flights of song. Literary and Social Essays

Cranes sent their weird, mournful cries echoing over the undulating plains and valleys; birds of passage were a-wing. Tales of the Wilderness

The smell of the fruit and the brightness of the verdure attract from afar the birds of passage, which love to perch on the slender, arrow-like branches of the palm-tree. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3

The birds of passage have gone; a happy journey and welcome back again! Pan

"That bird of passage; 'tis a wonder she wastes her sweetness upon him." A Heart-Song of To-day

Even strange birds of passage flying in at his hospitable window, would espy him unscared, and sometimes partake of the food he had always at hand to offer them. Malcolm

However, the Indians of these countries, during two periods of the year, feed on birds of passage, which repose in their long migrations on the waters of the Rio Negro. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2

Sorrow is the flock of sparrows which remains behind, and builds in the nests of the birds of passage. True Story of My Life

Grayskin sent messages to his friend Karr by the birds of passage, to say that he was alive and faring well. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Whether Foscolo's name or manner daunted the young Hanoverian, or whether he was only a bird of passage, I don't know, but we saw nothing more of him after that day. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843

"At any rate," laughed the professor, "we're birds of passage, and one of them is mighty glad of the opportunity to get back into the old world again." The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics

There is a wonderful conformity between the vegetation of some plants, and the arrival of certain birds of passage. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes.

My good humor returned to me, as to the bird of passage. True Story of My Life

They were continually meeting birds of passage, flying now in greater flocks than in the spring. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

He may be all right, but you could only call him a bird of passage, like. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

Molly was a mere bird of passage, an American girl staying with friends for a brief time, therefore my infatuation was a humorous thing. Up the Hill and Over

"I am a bird of passage," he explained. The Velvet Glove

And especially at a time when he desired nothing so much as to be permitted to remain the footloose wanderer in a strange land, a bird of passage without ties or responsibilities. Alias the Lone Wolf

It was a busy day for the birds of passage. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

He and they were birds of passage and, with all old landmarks left behind, rested for a few hours on their journey. Lister's Great Adventure

They are, with rare exceptions, birds of passage, and don't trouble themselves much about changing cabinets. My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879

The sunny hillsides and its immediate vicinity seemed a favorite lounging-place both for the birds of passage and for those already at home. Nature's Serial Story

A gloomy sky, stately houses, and a cold, formal people, make Cupid, like a bird of passage, spread his wings, and take flight to a more congenial climate. Nature and Human Nature

The tjader, though not a bird of passage, is migratory, or rather wandering in domicile, and appears to undertake very purposeless and absurd journeys. The Earth as Modified by Human Action

It looked as if the birds of passage had found a landmark in a foreign land. Lister's Great Adventure

These whilom, undaunted rascals, like birds of passage, stayed but a short time in the new town of Lafayette. Viola Gwyn

She is only a bird of passage, some wealthy globe wanderer, perhaps even a sly adventuress. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story

A bird of passage is always at its ease, having no house to build, and no responsibility. The Gilded Age, Part 4.

She was a lady—Lynde saw that at a glance—probably some city-bred bird of passage, resting for the summer in this vale of health. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel

Like birds of passage built we there a nest On a palm-shaded shore, all steeped in light, Life was a holiday, enjoyed with zest And grateful hearts, the while it winged its flight. The Complete Short Works

But they are birds of passage, and there are years when they do not appear at all. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

It was flying from him like a bird of passage from the autumn. Absalom's Hair

He is a bird of passage with no fixed abode. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel

Although, like himself, she was only a bird of passage on Nepenthe, she had succeeded in impressing her personality upon those rather scantily furnished rooms and filling them with an atmosphere of England. South Wind

Any respectable, well-informed inhabitant of Trinidad, who happened not to be an official "bird of passage," might, on our author's honest inquiry, have informed him that Trinidad is the land of chronic agitation for Reform. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

I thought only of telling you that the crows, as well as wild-geese, are here birds of passage. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Most wonderful of all it was to stand and watch and be left behind when the birds of passage flew northward in their thousands in the spring. The Great Hunger

In every way, it would seem, she tried to keep her head above water, and roamed the world like a bird of passage, finding rest nowhere for the sole of her foot. The Green Mummy

In the quarter of a century following the peace with Napoleon, British North America received more British emigrants than the United States and the Australian colonies together, though many were merely birds of passage. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor

The customs of the country seemed doomed that day to misunderstanding, whether by sparrows or by bigger birds of passage. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan

Many of the attendants are idlers who seek distraction in the tone and gestures of the professors, or birds of passage who come there to warm themselves in winter and to sleep in summer. The Modern Regime, Volume 2

Sailors are like birds of passage; they feel equally at home in any latitude. An Enemy of the People

In short, pere Charles and his companions gave such scandal, that the whole fraternity was changed; and now the nest is occupied by another flight of these birds of passage. Travels through France and Italy

Italian navvies came also by the thousands, but mainly as birds of passage; and Greeks and men from the Balkan States were limited in numbers. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor

On first entering Saxony, Friedrich had made no secret that he was not a mere bird of passage there. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17

The next morning, at an early hour, the bird of passage took her flight onward, but she was not destined to go off unobserved. Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)

But the scholars are birds of passage, who live at school only in the summer; for in winter provisions cannot be made for any considerable number in one place. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Far from yielding to evil fortune, he regarded it as but a bird of passage. Penguin Island

Ah, I was always a bird of passage, you remember. The Yellow Crayon

Of these there are four classes:—First, merchants, who, like birds of passage, find their way over the sea at a certain time of the year, that they may exhibit their wares. Laws

"I am a bird of passage," she said, shaking her head. Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)

It was natural, therefore, that so sociable a spirit as Paynter should fall into speech with the one other stranger who happened to be staying at the inn, evidently a bird of passage like himself. The Trees of Pride

All the rest are boarders or birds of passage—a guest, a solitary dressmaker, a bachelor-girl doing typewriting. Manalive

All night they heard the birds of passage passing. The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time

A very mute bird: this is the latest summer bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne

Last night how many a leaping blaze affrighted The wailing birds of passage in their file; And dawn sees ashes dead and embers whited Where men had dwelt awhile. An Anthology of Australian Verse

Why, my Lady has been but poorly, ma'am, since she was last here—I don't mean with the family, ma'am, but when she was here as a bird of passage like. Bleak House

I well remember that after the very severe spring in the year 1739-40 summer birds of passage were very scarce. The Natural History of Selborne

The common wild-pigeon, or stock-dove, is a bird of passage in the south of England, seldom appearing till towards the end of November; is usually the latest winter bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne

Dear Sir, I was much pleased to see, among the collection of birds from Gibraltar, some of those short-winged English summer birds of passage, concerning whose departure we have made so much inquiry. The Natural History of Selborne

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例句	bird of passage In his early years, Daniel Klein darted through Europe like a bird of passage, moving from town to town under the same vagabond spell that draws so many young backpackers today. Q&A: ‘Always Journeying to Someplace New Gets Old Fast’ 2014-01-14T20:23:22Z The effect is to make the inhabitants of the tale—birds of passage, all of them—seem doubly caged. The Grim Rapacity of “The Iron Orchard” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Nearly half of Italian immigrants were “birds of passage” who eventually returned to Italy. How America became Italian 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Considerable memory must be attributed to birds of passage, a memory which, probably owing to the absence of disturbing thoughts, acts with the precision of that of some idiots. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z The days were often almost insufferably warm, and the birds of passage that crowded the hotels were beginning to take flight to more Northern latitudes. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z “These summer birds of passage,” as an 1883 article referred to them, stayed with friends who owned vacation homes or settled in black-owned establishments such as the Foblers’ Woodbine Cottage, where my family stayed. City Room: Answers About Black Life in 19th-Century New York, Part 4 2012-02-24T21:00:26Z For many years most of the early Daguerreotypists were birds of passage, frequently on the wing. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z But I shall still have time to paint it, after, in the first place, explaining shortly how, like birds of passage, he had contrived to soar away over the dim cloudy Harvest. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Ducks, particularly teal, flew past us, and we observed, also, many other birds of passage on their flight. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Jerusalem attracted the flow of pilgrims from the West as Antioch never could; and though the great majority of the pilgrims were only birds of passage, there were always many who stayed in the East. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z These facts are particularly illustrated with us by the very large element known as “birds of passage.” The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z There were not wanting birds of passage who, while hibernating among the philosophic haunts of London, gathered up the seeds of infidelity to scatter them broadcast upon the soil of France. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Hence the traveler and the tourist always are welcome, and whether they be deeply learned scientific investigators or mere birds of passage seeking novelty every provision is made to aid them in their travels. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z Most of the birds of passage were gone; no swallows were to be seen, and the wild pigeons passed by in large flocks. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z It is, like the Fieldfare, a bird of passage, reaching us from the north about the same time with the Woodcock, in October. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z It is a bird of passage, visiting its customary breeding places in the summer and wintering in southern Europe. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z An appointment like this is naturally more important to him than it would be to Ronny, who is by way of being a bird of passage. Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts 2011-11-11T03:00:37.427Z The tjäder, though not a bird of passage, is migratory, or rather wandering in domicile, and appears to undertake very purposeless and absurd journeys. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z The most interesting ones were the birds of passage: they had always something to tell. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z It is a bird of passage, both on the Continent and in England, arriving and taking its departure at about the same time with the Swallow. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The Common Starling is a bird of passage, arriving in England about the beginning of March and leaving some time in October. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z The length of time that birds of passage remain in Germany differs considerably with the different species. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z “We are birds of passage, and stop only as long as it pleases us.” The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z As for the whites, they long remained mere birds of passage. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z In the latter district it appears as a bird of passage in November; and about Martinmas it is so abundant as to become a staple article of food. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Guests began to come to the election, with the swallows and other birds of passage. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z While there he became interested in railroad enterprises, which eventually extended through remote and varied sections of the country and 13 kept him a bird of passage for many years. Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z As has been stated, birds of passage did not go beyond the sea that winter; the rivers did not freeze over, therefore the whole country was full of water-fowl, especially over the marshes. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z In every sense they are birds of passage: any ploughboy will tell you so. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z This Spirit assumes as many shapes as Satan himself, and altogether appears to be a very curious bird of passage. Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester 2011-07-22T02:00:20.277Z Are they more than "The sounds sent down at night By birds of passage in their flight"? Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z All the more welcome to Johanna were the first spring breezes, the coming of the first birds of passage, and the bursting of the sheaths of the first blossoms. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z Nothing would have pleased him better than to steer directly for the vessel, and see what effect was produced on board by the sight of this strange bird of passage hovering above the tops. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z The officials, on the other hand, were mere birds of passage, who took no real interest in the country. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z You were right, however," pursued Julienne, and would fain continue in her mirthful mood; "love without marriage is like a bird of passage, who seats himself upon a mast, which itself moves along. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z The household belongings here are, as we have said, somewhat more respectable and extensive than those of the former nests occupied by these birds of passage. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z You meet many English soldiers whose appearance is creditable to the country, and amongst the birds of passage are many Americans. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z But I shall still have time to paint it, after, in the first place, explaining shortly how, like birds of passage, he had contrived to soar away over the dim, cloudy Harvest. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z "Yes, so I hear; what birds of passage you men are; but you don't leave until Monday, when your good little wife and Miss Crew come to me during your absence." A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z Badger, another bird of passage, became tax assessor. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z “No. I regret to say that I am not a native of these delightful environs,” said he, “I am a bird of passage.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z How could this mistress be expected to take any interest in or to consider herself responsible for the well-being of such birds of passage? How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z He felt only that he must have war with Assyria, just as a bird of passage feels that in the month Pachons it must go northward. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z She asked the birds of passage if they had seen her prince, and sometimes they had news of him. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z My Dear Cousin Natalie—Last night I arrived here direct from St. Petersburg, being merely a bird of passage, and on my way to London. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z He looked at her thoughtfully as he repeated this definition of himself, evidently wondering how she liked “birds of passage.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z This "curiosity"—for it is hardly more—is reached by a cable-lift or funicular railway, which seems principally to be conducted for the delectation of those winter birds of passage yclept "Riviera tourists." The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z We are such birds of passage, my dear madam, that we can really never plan for the future. Magda A Play in Four Acts The birds of passage wakened from their sleep and sang their sweetest songs. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z Ten minutes might have passed, when two withered leaves fluttered over her head and sank like tired birds of passage swimming on to the water. The Undying Past Since the last bird of passage left us we had nowhere seen a single living creature, right up to February 28th. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 As soon as ever they can break for a moment the thread that binds them, they come, poor birds of passage, to settle, take refuge, and enjoy here at least a moment's vital heat. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The air was filled with the call of the birds of passage. The Voice of the Pack When birds of passage reached this land of darkness, they trilled their softest songs and went to rest, and when they waked, they soared away in search of brighter lands. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z But half, at least, of these dull people, he renumbered, were birds of passage only; to-morrow or the next day they would take the train. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath As the year waned, and the winter night impended, all the sea animals and birds of passage which had swarmed around us and awakened our longings during the short summer deserted us one by one. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Many are rough country people who are evidently in Zaragoza as birds of passage. Glories of Spain I soon saw that I should only be a bird of passage here. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 Maiden Matanuska understood the songs of birds as well, and when the birds of passage sang of other lands, where there was light of day, she listened eagerly. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z For she, too, might be a bird of passage, leaving to-morrow or the next day, leaving that very night, perhaps. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath "I think he saw The Perfect Flapper," said Maurice "and has been trying ever since to find out whether she were a don's daughter or a theatrical bird of passage." Sinister Street, vol. 2 I praised the arrangement as just and excellent, but said that, being a bird of passage, I would prefer not to make it. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen In the spring of 1916 the legations and embassies at Washington had their birds of passage. The Tempering It was from these sweet songs the birds of passage sang that Maiden Matanuska came to know that there was such a thing as light of day. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z Those independent rulers who establish themselves for a space on the confines of China are mere ephemeral excrescences; birds of passage who must betake themselves away, if they can, when their little hour has struck. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar I live in the hotel; a bird of passage never has a comfortable nest. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. It is, properly speaking, a bird of passage; though even in the Eastern States individuals are found during moderate winters, as well as in the states of New York and Pennsylvania. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom "Are you a resident here—or a bird of passage like ourselves?" The Gambler A Novel You're in all senses a bird of passage, Philip," he said, "but I know that whatever happens tomorrow or rather today we're going to see each other again. The Guns of Europe Octon had been merely the temporary tenant of a hired house—a mere bird of passage—and a solitary bird besides, neither giving nor receiving confidences. The Great Miss Driver There was an elephant at Chitor, to take birds of passage up the hill, and she—she was fifty-one years old, and her name was Gerowlia—came to the dak-bungalow for the Englishman. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel We had long, as it were, broken with the world, for all we had seen of mankind had been a few Tartar horsemen dashing across the Land of Grass, like so many birds of passage. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] The English come as birds of passage, and depart when they have made their fortunes. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The birds of passage often paid a visit to the weathercock and told him tales of foreign lands, of large flocks passing through the air, and of encounters with robbers and birds of prey. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series On the verge of the horizon a flight of birds of passage formed a long dark line against the sky. Toilers of the Sea The ducks, being birds of passage, spending their summers up North, are acquainted with men and their arts, and are comparatively shy, but the native birds are very tame and can easily be approached. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Hence men who have travelled, birds of passage, and beasts of prey, are distinguished among other faculties, for a remarkable intelligence. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. We are as birds of passage, temporary residents for transient purposes, with no home in our islands at all. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Already had its topmost branches pierced the clouds, which floated beneath them like troops of birds of passage or large white swans; every leaf seemed gifted with sight, as if it possessed eyes to see. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series He and Anne were birds of passage, who wintered in Italy or Spain or Egypt as the whim seized him; and spent the summer in Switzerland or Tyrol, or elsewhere. The Red Symbol Only the gods could tell where that bird of passage might fly after his visit to Celtiberia! Sónnica He went towards the nets that he had spread in the hope of snaring some bird of passage during the snow storm. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium In all other matters, the Station was content, for officials were birds of passage, and what had sufficed the residents for years, was good enough for today. Banked Fires Pressed forward, or solicited onward by the warmth, the birds of passage commence their annual migration, keeping pace with the developing vegetation beneath. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Their crews commenced to shower the shrapnel around and below the bird of passage, whose mission, whatever it might prove to be, could mean only evil to the Teuton cause. Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret "It was more than a mere worldly impulse," says a famous northern divine, "that urged the northern nations to wander forth, and to seek, like birds of passage, a milder clime." The History of Freedom “I am very glad, Signor Ewart, that I have been able to catch you here; you are such a bird of passage, you know,” he said in Italian. The Count's Chauffeur What a change in this transient attitude might be made by a policy of having land available and usable for such birds of passage. A Stake in the Land He appears, however, to have had a delicacy rare among the musical birds of passage and of prey who come to feed on the unwieldy wealth of England. Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches And then I too, like a bird of passage that has alighted for a moment in some sheltered garden-ground, must needs go on my way. The Thread of Gold Nor would he permit her to learn French, although he understood it himself; women, he thought, are not birds of passage, that are to be eternally changing their place of abode. The History of Sandford and Merton Most of the birds of passage had already taken their way south; we had met small flocks of them at sea. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I You could not go behind them and find her wanting in the social guarantees which women on steamers, if not men, exact of lonely birds of passage who are not mother-birds. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse But a few birds of passage I have seen have vexed me with their confident ignorance, and caused me to believe that English Gladstonians are the densest donkeys under the sun. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule All the missions, except the British, were birds of passage, who departed upon fulfilling their errands of securing American aid in directions where it was most required. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources Coralie's a newcomer; such women are birds of passage, and before she grows too famous the police will move her on. Thurston of Orchard Valley The ruddy square of comfortable light —— him, as the beacon blaze —— The bird of passage. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions You cannot flee from it; you cannot hide from it; it is swifter than the birds of passage, and swifter than the breezes that scatter clouds. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature But there! he is such a bird of passage that one never knows where he may be to-morrow.” The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance They are only birds of passage at Sarawak: when they grow rich they prefer to spend their money in their native country. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Madame des Ursins, who was only at that moment a bird of passage, was of those in whom the delight of pleasing and the feeling of success doubly enhanced every innate grace. Political Women, Vol. 2 They had arrived, accompanied by the birds of passage, the stag, the antelope, and all the creatures of the forest who wished to take part in their joy. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Nor must we forget that the Dutch are not mere "birds of passage" in Java, as is the case with the English in India. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore They were birds of passage, who, after wintering on this "Fortunate Isle," left no other trace than an undying tradition. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan It was almost like a tree to look upon; and all the birds of passage bowed before it. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales They were only birds of passage, and would, in a month or so, give place to another arrival, about to disappear, in its turn, from a similar cause. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 Then beautiful Helga rose as a mighty swan, and spread her wings with the rushing sound of troops of birds of passage flying through the air. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Fectnor was an evil bird of passage who had come and gone. Children of the Desert But a very large and constantly increasing proportion of the Uitlanders are not birds of passage; they contemplate a long residence in the country, or to make it their permanent home. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 Blossoms and leaves were gone from all the trees, and storm and rain ruled, and gave them neither peace nor rest; and the birds of passage had flown. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales The "Alabama" is to be a bird of passage, flitting from port to port, and hovering about the highways of travel, to lie in wait for the merchant-vessels of the North. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Already had his topmost branches pierced the clouds, which floated beneath them like troops of birds of passage, or large white swans; every leaf seemed gifted with sight, as if it possessed eyes to see. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen It was autumn, the period when leaves fall off and grow damp, and London birds of passage fly home to their smoky nests. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Both meals and beds are good, and the rates are cheap, something less than nine francs a day for birds of passage. The Automobilist Abroad The birds of passage, and the stag, the antelope, and all the creatures of the forest followed them, for all wished to have a part in their joy. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Aquatic birds of passage of the auk kind on our western coasts; called also razor-bills. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. In the forest the wonderful plant still continued to bloom till it grew and became almost a tree, and all the birds of passage bowed themselves before it. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen A perfect drought prevails during those months; vegetation appears completely dead; and all birds of passage abandon the country. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Are we like those birds of passage which fly away and conceal themselves on the approach of the bad season? With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds His day was a waste place, his brain a parched field in the rain, his thoughts were birds of passage, his dreams a super-life. The Goose Man I was simply a bird of passage, and would, in all probability, go away on the morrow, never to see them again. "The Pomp of Yesterday" We acknowledged the kindness by a remark on bold bright birds of passage that find the seasons obedient to their will, and wing their way through worlds still rejoicing in the perfect year. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 These are all birds of passage, spending the winter here, and the summer farther north. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 The result is our people in India are birds of passage as they never were before, ready to return to their own land as soon as circumstances will allow them. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 The traveller, bird of passage he, Stiff, overstarched and insolent, Awakens secret merriment By his embarrassed dignity— Mute glances interchanged aside Meet punishment for him provide. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse As I say, let me hybernate until the birds of passage come and the young leaves are green in the spring. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Perhaps I was equally reluctant to go back and prove that the adventure was ended, that she had been a bird of passage who had gone on with no thought of return. The Thing from the Lake Few people they met, and those, for the most part, various types of vagabonds and nomads; some wild and savage, roaming like beasts from place to place; others, harmless, mere bedraggled birds of passage. Under the Rose He felt only that he must have war with Assyria, just as a bird of passage feels that in the mouth Pachons it must go northward. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt If he only knows it as a bird of passage knows the country he soars over in his migrations? The Conquest of Bread And, accordingly, we discover that, even after he has abandoned the occupation, and ceased to be a bird of passage, he never fails to turn his learning to a good account. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States But this would only hold good of the wading and water birds; it would not account for the migration of the many other birds of passage. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North The natives returned regularly with the season, like birds of passage—avenging the losses of their last retreat: they retired at the usual time—diminished, but unsubdued. The History of Tasmania , Volume II For most of the time, however, both sisters were birds of passage. Mary Wollstonecraft The bird of passage has the faculty of finding its way and the instinct to put it in action at certain periods. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 How many of the American birds of passage who flock to London every summer know the distinction between Mitre and Capel Courts? The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 They have common fowls, ostriches, and a bird larger than our blackbird 53; also storks, which latter are birds of passage, and arrive in the spring and disappear at the approach of winter; swallows, &c. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Mrs. Armstrong seemed to like the life fairly well, and to find a pleasure in the fleeting society of the birds of passage who went and came. Despair's Last Journey The wild fowl are mere birds of passage at the Red River, and but few were shot, as they passed over the colony, for our relief, in the want of provisions. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. She would be the one against whom Tochatti might be expected to wreak her spite——" "Yes, but you see Nurse Trevor was only a bird of passage, so to speak. Afterwards I was merely a bird of passage, a rara avis, a visitor without an eye on the almighty dollar. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 We have described here birds of the Polar Regions and of the Tropics; birds of passage, birds of prey; the song of the nightingale and of the robin, &c. The Cockatoo's Story Our neighbours, if such they could be called in this wild region, were “birds of passage.” In the Rocky Mountains Distinguish carefully the birds of passage that stop only a short time to rest on their journeys north and south, and those that stay and help to make the summer. Bird Day; How to prepare for it And we were birds of passage, mother and I; always moving about.” The Independence of Claire Dear Sir,—I was much pleased to see, among the collection of birds from Gibraltar, some of those short-winged English summer birds of passage, concerning whose departure we have made so much inquiry. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Are they weaker than birds of passage, the children whom I have borne? The Voyageur and Other Poems First, there was a vague rumor among the Indian voyageurs, who were ever gliding back and forward on the labyrinthine waters of that north land like the birds of passage overhead. Lords of the North Fur traders flocked to the St. Lawrence like birds of passage. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The traveller is looked upon as a bird of passage, whose visit is short, and which the vanity of the visited wishes to make agreeable. The Young Duke The common wild pigeon, or stock-dove, is a bird of passage in the south of England, seldom appearing till towards the end of November; is usually the latest winter-bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 It is a good sign for swallows to build their nests at one's windows; but if a person destroy a swallow's nest, or kill any of those birds of passage, he should prepare for misfortunes. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales You thought the bird of passage, he come not back at all! Lords of the North Instead of canoes gliding up and down the Saskatchewan like birds of passage, reign a silence and solitude as of the dead. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The streets below, white under the moon, looked empty and deserted, and the hotel beneath him gave up no sound to tell of the many birds of passage who sheltered within it. Brood of the Witch-Queen May 12th: a very mute bird: this is the latest summer bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 The other women felt that she was a bird of passage, that the frozen Arctic could be no more than a whim to her. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North And when it comes to a show-down I'm not aching to be a bird of passage. North of Fifty-Three Our neighbours, if such they could be called in this wild region, were "birds of passage." In the Rocky Mountains A Tale of Adventure Well, I may be only a transient here, a bird of passage nesting for a year in the towers of the Hall. The Mayor of Warwick I well remember that after the very severe spring in the year 1739-40, summer birds of passage were very scarce. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Already he towered above the clouds, which drifted below him, now like a troop of dark-plumaged birds of passage, now like flocks of large, white swans. The Ontario Readers Third Book The system does not appear to be advantageous to the increase of population: the wives of these birds of passage hardly bear two children a-piece. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government One other noticeable feature there was about these birds of passage. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Life is like a bird of passage which alights and tarries for a time and is gone, and the places where it perched and nested and led forth its brood know it no more. The Breath of Life I have seen very much myself, for bird of passage. The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' Hearne kept in camp till the coming of the goose month—April—when birds of passage wended their way north. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark July was not quite over, and yet all the birds of passage had migrated. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Occasional society there was of a certain kind, intermittent, coming and going like birds of passage. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 The young “general” is a bird of passage. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine With the dawning of summer, the birds of passage winged their flight northward. Princess What could a bird of passage know of the deep mysteries of procedure it took a life-time to learn? The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood Swans and pelicans are also birds of passage, and occasionally visit these unknown lands. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels The music of the pine-boughs had a more melancholy cadence, and birds of passage took their flight. Atmâ A Romance Lady Garnett and her companion were but newly arrived, and, as birds of passage, preferred the hotel to a pension. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Teach me, O bird of passage, this, To seek, in faith a better bliss On other unknown shores! Verses for Children and Songs for Music Horse- and cattle-thieves, killers, escaped convicts, came and went—ominous birds of passage, the scavengers of war and banditry. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Do you know that there are a set of men and women, in Paris and Lyons, who live elegantly by lying in wait and by catching every bird of passage?—but particularly the English gold-finch. A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 The very fact that he is a bird of passage in the country makes him absolutely independent of the class interests and personal bias to which the politician is almost always liable. Indian Unrest "The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming," and so do all birds of passage. The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories It is a bird of passage, and only visits Media in the autumn, preparatory to retreating into the warm district of Mazandoran for the winter months. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Still, remembering what a bird of passage he had been, and the many experiences he must have had by land and sea, all that was not to be wondered at. Austin and His Friends This world is a mere bird of passage, Miss Norali; and it behooves us to be ever on the wing for futurity and premeditation. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three "I will tolerate another man under thy roof if thou wilt but make this pretty bird of passage a permanency," he said to the Greek, after a silent study of Laodice's beauty. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem The birds of passage take their flight To other lands—of warmth and light— Where orient breezes blow. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827 "There's a bird of passage now, coming down from the north as swift as a swallow." The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne "I am afraid my bird of passage will never be satisfied with the little home nest again," she said, sadly. The Little Colonel's House Party On the Rive Gauche, to be sure, we are, for the most part, birds of passage; a student arrives, tarries a little, then departs. Grey Roses Of birds of passage, dormice, snakes, bats, swallows, quails, ringdoves, stare, chaffinch, hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, crossbill, rails and cranes. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Within, and about him, hovered a stirring consciousness of ancient, unchanging India; utterly impervious to mere birds of passage from the West; veiled, elusive, yet almost hideously real. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India If you are only a bird of passage, you will often find a box or so in your room. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 Throughout Europe silk strings are being prepared to catch human birds of passage with. A Wanderer in Holland How wonderful is that instinct by which the bird of passage performs its annual migration! McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader Other birds of passage have been drowned by thousands in the sea, or have settled on ships quite exhausted with fatigue. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life They, too, are birds of passage, working in the mines and steel mills for the coveted wages that shall free them from debt at home and insure their independence. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making It was the impersonal abode of the male bird of passage. Jaffery Wandering tales seem to alight, like birds of passage, on successive people in lands and epochs widely apart, mere hallmarks of certain characteristics re-embodied. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 "That you were only a bird of passage." Nightfall All birds of passage can exist in the climates, where they are produced. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life "It is estimated that birds of passage fly over two hundred miles a day, if they keep on the wing for six hours." Willis the Pilot Me my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh: Thy woes are birds of passage, transitory: Thy spirit, circled with a living glory, In summer still a summer joy resumeth. The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson But Mrs. Downey was proud of that too, as arguing that the poor bird of passage had stayed to smooth her ruffled plumage. The Divine Fire The birds of passage generally arrive at the end of April or during May, and leave in September or October. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life It was the boast of Lucullus that he changed his climate with the birds of passage. Poems Your Highness," he said quickly, "we are not birds of passage to rule our flight by seasons. Clementina The birds of passage who are now crowding out of the towns have had little pleasure in the spring, and their blissful days are only now beginning. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour He knew them so well, these eternal, restless birds of passage, draggled with their flight from one boarding-house to another. The Divine Fire Under the firs the red madrona shines, The graceful tan-oaks, fairest of them all, Lean lovingly unto the sturdy pines, In whose far tops the birds of passage call. The California Birthday Book Even kings and parliaments have no right in moral or international law to permit year after year the wholesale slaughter of birds of passage of species that no civilized man has a right to kill. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation If in the flights of his imagination he is like the strong-winged bird of passage, in his exquisite choice of descriptive epithets he reminds me of the tenui-rostrals. Ralph Waldo Emerson To me, whose heart could never nest there, but must be ever on the wing, a wild bird of passage in the track of a ship— I sat up with a galvanic start. Spanish Doubloons The birds of passage raised their heads with a faint flutter. The Divine Fire Even in the torrid climate of Egypt, squalls of rain passed over like stray birds of passage. Kimono Well, sir," said she, "you are a bird of passage, here to-day and gone to-morrow, and it don't matter much what I tell you, so long as I don't tell no lies. A Perilous Secret Only one bird of passage migrates across the intervening sea. The Long White Cloud He was a Southern boy—a bird of passage caught in the North—and his music had that sweet, soothing note that cheered the men who fought under the Stars and Bars. The Court of Boyville Mrs. Downey tried to talk to the birds of passage; but the birds of passage would talk to nobody but each other. The Divine Fire The birds of passage, whose stay shed a transient glory on the gay city, are legion. Somerset The greater number are fixed constantly in this vast city; some only come like birds of passage, at the approach of great occasions, or during the summer season. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 The public pays, they admire and they go; in any case they are only birds of passage who come once, and when they go they do not return. The Shadow of the Cathedral Most of these were mere birds of passage, who made a few experiments at government--conciliatory or the reverse, as the case might be--and so departed again. The Story of Ireland First then, at the top of the table, sat two elderly ladies, dishevelled birds of passage, guests of a day and a night. The Divine Fire I'm a bird of passage," she answered, smiling, "and I've only to unfold my wings and fly away from the smoke of scandal. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 I am a mere bird of passage here, just as you are. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel I am a bird of passage, you see; I have alighted here because I'm tired, ill—I don't just know what's the matter, but deeply broken in spirit anyhow. The Torrent Entre Naranjos To this tireless-winged bird of passage farming was not a loose trade, and the news that his son was pledged to agrarian pursuits shocked him. The Wrong Twin Ben thought about them as birds of passage, and the thought amused him. The Sky Line of Spruce The people generally are exceedingly uncouth, and between Arthez and Millau, where a tourist is probably the rarest of all birds of passage, the stranger must not expect to meet with a reception invariably cordial. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine From childhood, she had known what are the obligations of the wife of the captain of a ship when he stops at home for a few days, like a bird of passage. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel The "Melton of the west," it contains a large number of hunting residents who are not mere "birds of passage," but men who live the best part of the year in or near the town. A Cotswold Village Even formerly, when all the birds were so tame, it was impossible by Pernety's account to kill the black-necked swan — a bird of passage, which probably brought with it the wisdom learnt in foreign countries. The Voyage of the Beagle Also that she was only a brilliant bird of passage, who, in a few months, would be caught in the dazzling net of the great world. The Shuttle Whereas, I in comparison, felt myself a mere bird of passage in that port. The Shadow Line; a confession The air was full of birds of passage, steering westward and northward over Grünewald, an army of specks to the up-looking eye. Prince Otto, a Romance The water-fowl disported themselves over its surface, and the birds of passage overhead noisily expressed their surprise at the excitement and confusion in our midst. Indian Boyhood It doesn't mean anything at all—her coquetting with that bird of passage. The Flirt I thought how each twinkling window denoted the presence of some bird of passage, some wanderer temporarily abiding in our midst. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu The only sound was the tiny, feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the heavens at an immense height. Les Misérables They knew they were birds of passage as they walked in the sun in their khaki coats. The Happy Foreigner "Comfort in Travel," that want of all tourist and commercial birds of passage, is invariably filled on the Michigan Central, "The Niagara Falls Route." Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 She knew all the birds of passage, and where they should go in autumn, and she sent each flock on its way. Classic Myths "And the feather," said Alice, whom fear had rendered apprehensive of slight tokens, "means flight—and a woodcock is a bird of passage." Woodstock; or, the Cavalier You are a permanent resident, and I a mere bird of passage. The Case of Richard Meynell It was time to go, following all the other birds of passage that war had dragged through the town of Metz—time to make way for the toiling civilian with his impedimenta of civilisation. The Happy Foreigner Know, God and Nature only are the same: In man, the judgment shoots at flying game; A bird of passage! gone as soon as found, Now in the moon perhaps, now under ground. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 So, by some analogous sense, the birds of passage are informed of the approach of winter and the return of spring. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Bridecakes are bores to carry about from place to place, and Miss Priest and her mother were rather birds of passage. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Some countries have their birds of passage, and some their follies of passage, which it is scarcely worth while to shoot as they fly. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 These birds of passage come before their time: Stave off the crowd upon the Spaniard there. Queen Mary and Harold Poor bird of passage! so I was; but, father, They say that you are wise in winged things, And know the ways of Nature. Becket and other plays The rapid flight and cries of a few birds of passage alone broke the monotony of the scene. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude At best he was but a bird of passage. With the Procession Mr. Halstead, I am a journeyman day laborer in your city--the merest bird of passage, with my watch at the pawnbroker's. Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Mr. Halstead, I am a journeyman day laborer in your city—the merest bird of passage, with my watch at the pawnbroker's. Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography Herbert, take out a score of armed men To guard this bird of passage to her cage; And watch Fitzurse, and if he follow thee, Make him thy prisoner. Becket and other plays Lotta had inherited eight or ten town and country houses, and for the moment was perched like a bird of passage, on her Roman villa, called Seven Hills. Ptomaine Street What a nice thing to have an unwatched place like that where a poor bird of passage can creep in and make his nest, and not trouble any one. The Desert and the Sown But all of these, like stately birds "Sailing with supreme dominion Through the upper realms of air," were attended by shorter poems, sonnets, "birds of passage", as the poet called his swallow flights of song. Literary and Social Essays Cranes sent their weird, mournful cries echoing over the undulating plains and valleys; birds of passage were a-wing. Tales of the Wilderness The smell of the fruit and the brightness of the verdure attract from afar the birds of passage, which love to perch on the slender, arrow-like branches of the palm-tree. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The birds of passage have gone; a happy journey and welcome back again! Pan "That bird of passage; 'tis a wonder she wastes her sweetness upon him." A Heart-Song of To-day Even strange birds of passage flying in at his hospitable window, would espy him unscared, and sometimes partake of the food he had always at hand to offer them. Malcolm However, the Indians of these countries, during two periods of the year, feed on birds of passage, which repose in their long migrations on the waters of the Rio Negro. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Sorrow is the flock of sparrows which remains behind, and builds in the nests of the birds of passage. True Story of My Life Grayskin sent messages to his friend Karr by the birds of passage, to say that he was alive and faring well. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Whether Foscolo's name or manner daunted the young Hanoverian, or whether he was only a bird of passage, I don't know, but we saw nothing more of him after that day. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 "At any rate," laughed the professor, "we're birds of passage, and one of them is mighty glad of the opportunity to get back into the old world again." The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics There is a wonderful conformity between the vegetation of some plants, and the arrival of certain birds of passage. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. My good humor returned to me, as to the bird of passage. True Story of My Life They were continually meeting birds of passage, flying now in greater flocks than in the spring. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils He may be all right, but you could only call him a bird of passage, like. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation Molly was a mere bird of passage, an American girl staying with friends for a brief time, therefore my infatuation was a humorous thing. Up the Hill and Over "I am a bird of passage," he explained. The Velvet Glove And especially at a time when he desired nothing so much as to be permitted to remain the footloose wanderer in a strange land, a bird of passage without ties or responsibilities. Alias the Lone Wolf It was a busy day for the birds of passage. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils He and they were birds of passage and, with all old landmarks left behind, rested for a few hours on their journey. Lister's Great Adventure They are, with rare exceptions, birds of passage, and don't trouble themselves much about changing cabinets. My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 The sunny hillsides and its immediate vicinity seemed a favorite lounging-place both for the birds of passage and for those already at home. Nature's Serial Story A gloomy sky, stately houses, and a cold, formal people, make Cupid, like a bird of passage, spread his wings, and take flight to a more congenial climate. Nature and Human Nature The tjader, though not a bird of passage, is migratory, or rather wandering in domicile, and appears to undertake very purposeless and absurd journeys. The Earth as Modified by Human Action It looked as if the birds of passage had found a landmark in a foreign land. Lister's Great Adventure These whilom, undaunted rascals, like birds of passage, stayed but a short time in the new town of Lafayette. Viola Gwyn She is only a bird of passage, some wealthy globe wanderer, perhaps even a sly adventuress. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story A bird of passage is always at its ease, having no house to build, and no responsibility. The Gilded Age, Part 4. She was a lady—Lynde saw that at a glance—probably some city-bred bird of passage, resting for the summer in this vale of health. The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel Like birds of passage built we there a nest On a palm-shaded shore, all steeped in light, Life was a holiday, enjoyed with zest And grateful hearts, the while it winged its flight. The Complete Short Works But they are birds of passage, and there are years when they do not appear at all. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters It was flying from him like a bird of passage from the autumn. Absalom's Hair He is a bird of passage with no fixed abode. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Although, like himself, she was only a bird of passage on Nepenthe, she had succeeded in impressing her personality upon those rather scantily furnished rooms and filling them with an atmosphere of England. South Wind Any respectable, well-informed inhabitant of Trinidad, who happened not to be an official "bird of passage," might, on our author's honest inquiry, have informed him that Trinidad is the land of chronic agitation for Reform. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas I thought only of telling you that the crows, as well as wild-geese, are here birds of passage. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Most wonderful of all it was to stand and watch and be left behind when the birds of passage flew northward in their thousands in the spring. The Great Hunger In every way, it would seem, she tried to keep her head above water, and roamed the world like a bird of passage, finding rest nowhere for the sole of her foot. The Green Mummy In the quarter of a century following the peace with Napoleon, British North America received more British emigrants than the United States and the Australian colonies together, though many were merely birds of passage. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor The customs of the country seemed doomed that day to misunderstanding, whether by sparrows or by bigger birds of passage. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Many of the attendants are idlers who seek distraction in the tone and gestures of the professors, or birds of passage who come there to warm themselves in winter and to sleep in summer. The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Sailors are like birds of passage; they feel equally at home in any latitude. An Enemy of the People In short, pere Charles and his companions gave such scandal, that the whole fraternity was changed; and now the nest is occupied by another flight of these birds of passage. Travels through France and Italy Italian navvies came also by the thousands, but mainly as birds of passage; and Greeks and men from the Balkan States were limited in numbers. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor On first entering Saxony, Friedrich had made no secret that he was not a mere bird of passage there. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 The next morning, at an early hour, the bird of passage took her flight onward, but she was not destined to go off unobserved. Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) But the scholars are birds of passage, who live at school only in the summer; for in winter provisions cannot be made for any considerable number in one place. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Far from yielding to evil fortune, he regarded it as but a bird of passage. Penguin Island Ah, I was always a bird of passage, you remember. The Yellow Crayon Of these there are four classes:—First, merchants, who, like birds of passage, find their way over the sea at a certain time of the year, that they may exhibit their wares. Laws "I am a bird of passage," she said, shaking her head. Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) It was natural, therefore, that so sociable a spirit as Paynter should fall into speech with the one other stranger who happened to be staying at the inn, evidently a bird of passage like himself. The Trees of Pride All the rest are boarders or birds of passage—a guest, a solitary dressmaker, a bachelor-girl doing typewriting. Manalive All night they heard the birds of passage passing. The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time A very mute bird: this is the latest summer bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne Last night how many a leaping blaze affrighted The wailing birds of passage in their file; And dawn sees ashes dead and embers whited Where men had dwelt awhile. An Anthology of Australian Verse Why, my Lady has been but poorly, ma'am, since she was last here—I don't mean with the family, ma'am, but when she was here as a bird of passage like. Bleak House I well remember that after the very severe spring in the year 1739-40 summer birds of passage were very scarce. The Natural History of Selborne The common wild-pigeon, or stock-dove, is a bird of passage in the south of England, seldom appearing till towards the end of November; is usually the latest winter bird of passage. The Natural History of Selborne Dear Sir, I was much pleased to see, among the collection of birds from Gibraltar, some of those short-winged English summer birds of passage, concerning whose departure we have made so much inquiry. The Natural History of Selborne
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