| 单词 | birdlime |
| 例句 | The baboons learned about the birdlime, too, and all she found now were a few forlorn feathers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She noticed that the tree trunk was still scarred by foot holes and the birdlime barrier was still intact. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they came to the ring of birdlime. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Back and forth they went, gluing the grass to the birdlime until it was covered up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the peregrine falcons to keep them in check, they were so numerous that the courthouse windows and ledges were white with birdlime. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She went off to harvest the birdlime traps. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The birdlime had entangled a few queleas and a mouse that had been attracted by their fluttering. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z "You took a flat stick and applied birdlime to the top, and drew the money out through the chink, you rogue," said his holiness, severely. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Oh, what unutterable corruption sticks, like birdlime, to all our motives, all our thoughts, all our words, all our actions! Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z I have mentioned the nut we pounded and mixed with glue to make our birdlime. Palm Tree Island 2011-09-21T02:00:31.730Z He proceeded to hoist a leafless branch, smeared with birdlime, in a conspicuous place, and not far off he deposited a cage, with a bird in it. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z I felt like a butterfly just newly burst from the chrysalis, with a world of flowers and sunshine all around it, but with one leg unfortunately immersed in birdlime. Medical Life in the Navy 2011-09-08T02:00:20.387Z But I haven’t the makings of a sprig of birdlime, or a crib, or a good singing bird to bring with me,’ ses he. The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables 2011-09-05T02:00:18.250Z Others are for always being dragons, but that is sure to scare off the men; and as I say, what's the use of birdlime if you 're always shouting and screaming! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z They found him in a lonely part of the forest preparing birdlime, and said to him, “What are you doing, Jhore?” Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z Gradually, however, as they rambled over the place, all in turn became besmeared with our birdlime on head, paws, or back or breast. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z Time out of mind it has been used in the preparation of a viscid substance known as birdlime, which, spread on twigs, holds the feet of small birds. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Family pride was a kind of birdlime with old Dalton, and if he but touched, he could not leave it. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Ireland 's birdlime to me,—I stick fast if I only touch it; and why ain't I back there, growling about the markets, cursing the poor-rates, and enjoying myself as I used to do? The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z He then put some of the birdlime into their eyes, and fixed their eyelids together, so that they could not open them. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z Everything was plentifully besmeared with birdlime, and basins of the mixture were set in all directions, strewn with rice, maize, and other dainties for bait. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z Our wit comes from us, “like birdlime, brains and all.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature So he gave orders to his servants to set traps in the garden and to smear every bough 304 and branch with birdlime in order that the bird might speedily be taken. Legends & Romances of Brittany Ossaroo had other resources besides the birdlime and the battue, and he at once set to work to prepare his plan. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains As soon as they had rid themselves of the birdlime, they followed him and found him distilling oil from the fruit of the marking-nut tree. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z Meantime, the birdlime acted well: the pigeons alighting, stuck fast. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z He described the merits of deadfalls, snares, steel traps, and birdlime. David and the Phoenix Moist gum-like tears drop from this mournful tree; And see, it sticks like birdlime; 'twill not part, Sorrow is even such birdlime at my heart. A History of Elizabethan Literature The sap was then stirred—fresh juice being occasionally thrown in—and in a short while the whole attained the toughness and consistency of the best birdlime. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Holly, a necessary thing for the making of birdlime. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. On the following morning we were early astir; and as soon as breakfast was over, we went regularly to work with the birdlime. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z From this it would appear, that fowlers stood behind trees, and used reeds tipped with birdlime, for the purpose of taking birds. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes The fools! was birdlime so scarce a thing amongst them?—and were the properties of warm water so unknown to them, that they could not close a pair of eyes and open them?’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' It certainly did sound very absurd to his companions, when he first told them that it was his intention to catch the tiger by birdlime! The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains They were also captured with birdlime, or shot with arrows, the fowler concealing himself near an open space, on which some soi, their favourite food, had been scattered. The Call Of The South 1908 Your books are birdlime to him, however; he hovers about the house to obtain a volume when others have done with it. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) There was more birdlime underfoot, and the inhuman yammering of the streets was replaced with echoing silence, and that silence was invaded by the sound—the voice of the colossus, remote and terrible. In the Control Tower The p. 231fools! was birdlime so scarce a thing amongst them?—and were the properties of warm water so unknown to them, that they could not close a pair of eyes and open them?” Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 It was, in fact, true birdlime—the same that is used by the bird-catchers of India, and quite equal to that manufactured from the holly. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains In effect both father and son became fast to the birdlime figure, when they were stung to death by ten thousand bees. Spanish Life in Town and Country A rock amid the waters is no joke, Nor birdlime on the twig. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Stairs became narrower and more heavily encrusted with birdlime and rust as he ascended. In the Control Tower Here and there were long birdlime streaks of a ghostly white staining the tower from sea to air, readily accounting for its sail-like look afar. The Piazza Tales Karl and Caspar expected to see their companion once more try his stratagem of the birdlime and the leaves; and such at first was his intention. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains But more went back with the quart-pot than came with it, for two gold-pieces stuck to the birdlime, and it was these that went back with the pot to brother Hans. Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk King Hoopoe's favorite oath is "Odds nets and birdlime." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Of the dung of the thrush is born the mistletoe, with which is made birdlime, with which the thrush is captured. The Man Who Laughs Its birdlime gleams in the golden rays like the whitewash of a tall light-house, or the lofty sails of a cruiser. The Piazza Tales Upon inquiry, however, he found that no birdlime was to be had. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains The latter dish is a preparation of boiled yams, which are pounded in a mortar until they obtain a tenacity that will admit of being drawn out like birdlime. A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 But if this birdlime once but touch her wings, On the next bush she sits her down and sings. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 As the figure did not move he gave it a kick and his leg was caught in the birdlime; then he said, “Let me go, you old hag, or I will give you a slap.” Folklore of the Santal Parganas ‘Well, my little fellow—you are a fine boy, ain’t you?’ said Mr. Minns, as happy as a tomtit on birdlime. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people I may say, too, it furnished fowl and other creatures as dainties, in producing mistletoe for birdlime to ensnare them. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea It probably resembles in its chemical properties birdlime, the vegetable principle obtained from the berries of the mistletoe, and the internal bark of the holly. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 He is a citizen's birdlime, and where he holds he hangs. Character Writings of the 17th Century The other means by which birds are taken, consist in imitating their voices, or leading them, by other artifices, into situations where they become entrapped by nets, birdlime, or otherwise. The Book of Household Management Numbers of people went out to catch them with birdlime, nets, snares, and guns. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns The mud nests crumbled and fell on the floor and the bunks, filling the air with a flutter of feathers and a smell of birdlime. Three Soldiers For I know not how it is, but these things are like birdlime: a man's soul sticks to them, and will not easily come away; they have grown to be a part of him. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 These centesimi are a source of temptation to the small boys of Varallo, who are continually getting into trouble for extracting them by the help of willow wands and birdlime. Ex Voto Around the cabin are placed avenues with twisted perches, also covered with birdlime. The Book of Household Management Every day boys were to be seen walking along the roads and by the hedges and ditches, catching dragonflies with birdlime. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Even here shall the holy bird rest his swift wing, sitting on this murmuring plane, since Poemander the Malian is dead and comes no more with birdlime smeared on his fowling reeds. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Yet so vile a thing as a bit of birdlime subdues them utterly; and such was the fascinating power of this mean man over this worthy woman. A Simpleton It does show Grumkow as the extreme of subtle fowlers, and how the dirty-fingered Seckendorf and he cooked their birdlime: but to us that is not new, though at St. James's it was. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 |
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