单词 | brown thrush |
例句 | There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in a tree; He is singing to me! Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z No doubt the towhee, the brown thrush, and the cat-bird found out this spot years ago, and have been using it ever since for summer quarters. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z There were the oriole, the cat bird, the yellow throat, the brown thrush and the red bird, all putting forth at once their charmingest efforts. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z On the topmost branch of an apple tree a big brown thrush was singing its heart out over the garden, its small packed outline silhouetted against the pale blue sky. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Still the doves flew about us by the hundred and the brown thrushes increased in number. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway No, no!" cried the brown thrush; "she is too pretty to bring harm. Lulu's Library, Volume II She could not help feeling like a little brown thrush in the midst of a company of resplendent parrots and birds of paradise. The House in Town Here is the poem: There’s a merry brown thrush sitting up in a tree. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 1897 I am starting a collection of eggs, and would like to exchange an egg of a brown thrush for one of a meadow-lark. Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly It was on the 17th of July that I saw brown thrushes for the first time. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway I have seen woodpeckers, orioles, lots of robins and blue jays, brown thrushes, and bluebirds. Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in the tree; He's singing to me! Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks A single brown thrush was leading the chorus on the 29th. Birds in the Bush The mother thought they were beautiful, you may be sure, and many birds gathered around to congratulate her and Tom, and the brown thrush sang a splendid song of welcome to the little ones. Policeman Bluejay By and bye a wood pigeon cooed softly somewhere in the shadows, and a brown thrush perched on a bare oak bough began to sing. Hawtrey's Deputy The brown thrush ranks high as a musician, the mockingbird leads the world, in the opinion of its lovers, and the winter wren thrills one to the heart. Little Brothers of the Air In contrast to this woman’s stupidity, I have the natural loveliness of the little brown thrush, on my one side, and the hoary-headed wisdom of Mrs. Owl, on my other side. How to Cook Husbands Our brown thrush, for instance, is a magnificent singer, albeit he is not of the best school, being too "sensational" to suit the most exacting taste. Birds in the Bush By and by a wood pigeon cooed softly somewhere in the shadows, and a brown thrush perched on a bare oak bough began to sing. Masters of the Wheat-Lands "Flutterbudget" is the one expressive word that exactly characterizes a certain brown thrush, or thrasher, the subject of a year's study. In Nesting Time First to come upon the scene of the summer's studies was the brown thrush family. Little Brothers of the Air If the little brown thrush keeps singing that song the heart of everyone who hears it will overflow with joy. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Still, though this is a meagre and quite unexaggerated account of the ordinary song of the brown thrush, I have discovered that even he can be outdone—by himself. Birds in the Bush I invite amid these trees the larks, and the brown thrushes, and the robins, and all the brightest birds of heaven, and they stir the air with infinite chirp and carol. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony The brown thrush was never so violent and eccentric in movement as just after his bath. In Nesting Time For a week he came and went and was watched and studied, but one day the strawberries were gathered in the old garden, and the beautiful brown thrush baby appeared no more. Little Brothers of the Air A little brown thrush sat near the eagle. Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children We have now named four birds, the chickadee, the goldfinch, the brown thrush, and the towhee,—birds so diverse in plumage that no eye could fail to discriminate them at a glance. Birds in the Bush The brown thrush is also absent from places where once there were many. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Tearing paper was always amusing to the brown thrush. In Nesting Time Much anguish did these rapacious brothers cause the divinely gifted brown thrush, and when they began to quarrel over the receipts between themselves, he begged them to go away and leave him in peace. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians The little brown thrush felt the eagle quiver and begin to drop toward the earth. Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children In neighborly association with the brown thrush is the towhee bunting, or chewink. Birds in the Bush As a musician, this bird closely approaches the brown thrush. Bird Day; How to prepare for it A more lithe body than that of the brown thrush I have never seen in feathers; he could assume as many attitudes as he had emotions. In Nesting Time Beethoven was a beautiful brown thrush in a nest of cuckoos. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians So the little brown thrush flew off by himself, into a deep, dark part of the wood. Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children Whence did the towhee derive his equanimity, and the brown thrush his saturnine temper? Birds in the Bush When on mountain road I travel, Stained with dust and dirt and gravel, In cool shade I sit me down; Oft I see among the bushes Feathered friends—shy brown thrushes, Sweetest singers of renown. Our Profession and Other Poems They had quite satisfied their curiosity, and after a few moments' waiting the brown thrush went on his way rejoicing. In Nesting Time In feature she was commonplace, her form lacked the classic touch, and her raiment was as plain as the plumage of a brown thrush in an autumn hedgerow. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians He did not know that the little brown thrush was on his back,—and the other birds did not tell him. Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children This may be well illustrated by a comparison of the chickadee with the brown thrush. Birds in the Bush Almost all the others—brown thrushes, bluebirds, song sparrows, kingbirds, hen-hawks, nighthawks, whip-poor-wills, woodpeckers, etc.—simply tried to avoid being seen, to draw or drive us away, or paid no attention to us. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth You must not take it amiss, monsieur, if I confess that, as a guard, I have never considered you much more seriously than I would that brown thrush above you. Montlivet Among these birds they distinguished the brown thrush, robin, turtledove, linnet, goldfinch, the large and small blackbird, the wren, and some others. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. For some time, the little brown thrush flew along the Great Sky Trail. Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children Said he: "Whenever the fields are green, Lie still, where the wild rose fashions a screen, While the brown thrush calls to his love-wise mate, And know what they profit who trade with Hate." The Glugs of Gosh A passing description of the brown thrush as "skulking" among the bushes hits that bird to the life. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 "You look like a sad little brown thrush," he said gently. Kenny There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in a tree; "He's singing to me! he's singing to me!" McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader The brown thrush, rival of the lark and mockingbird, seldom seeks the society of the blue jay. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors A partridge rose now and then from the thicket and whirred away, and with startled eyes the brown thrush peered out from the bushes. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 He is very sprightly, and full of vivacity; yet his notes are much inferior to those of the wood, or even of the brown thrush. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829 And as I peeped into the brush-pile, again the brown thrush, building within, said, "thou—thou—thou!" A Kentucky Cardinal Always a good singer, he sometimes nearly equals the brown thrush, and has the merit of keeping up his music later in the evening than any bird of my familiar acquaintance. My Garden Acquaintance Drowsily, as if half asleep, the blackbirds whistled their couplets, and in the thickest hedges the little brown thrushes sang softly to their brooding mates. The Man Between, an International Romance The performance of a brown thrush drove him wild with envy. The Song of the Cardinal His natural notes partake of a character similar to those of the brown thrush, but they are more sweet, more expressive, more varied, and uttered with greater rapidity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 356, February 14, 1829 A brown thrush silently slipped like a snake between shrubs and trees, and catching the universal excitement, began to flirt his tail and utter a weird, whistling cry. The Harvester The brown thrush has moved farther up country. My Garden Acquaintance Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush. A Girl of the Limberlost With care and deliberation the brown thrush selected the most attractive, and she followed him to the thicket as if charmed. The Song of the Cardinal A brown thrush, catching the unusual atmosphere of the orchard that morning, selected the tallest twig of an apple tree and showed that orchard what real music was. Michael O'Halloran Blackbirds protested against the unusual intrusion of strange objects, and a brown thrush slipped from a late nest close the road wailing in anxiety. The Harvester So in the pages of this book you will learn of the lives of faithful dogs and huge buffaloes, and the brown thrush will sing for you a song full of meaning. The Elson Readers, Book 5 And in a bush by the roadside, Hepzebiah spied the brown thrush's nest. Seven O'Clock Stories When I find a dead starling on the downs ranged over by sparrowhawks, it is almost always a young bird—a "brown thrush" as it used to be called by the old naturalists. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs The beautiful old basswood tree bending so gracefully stood there, and the brown thrush sang with her musical voice. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author A brown thrush sped through the air, close by the timid canary. The Hollow of Her Hand At the summit was an old orchard, and in a brush-heap a brown thrush nested. Moths of the Limberlost Oh, hark to the brown thrush! hear how he sings! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 "Who is that little brown thrush of a woman that you were so taken with at dinner?" asked Stanton, as they were enjoying a quiet smoke in their favorite corner of the piazza. A Face Illumined The tree that my good spirit had planted for me, where once the pretty brown thrush daily sat with her musical voice, is cut down by the ruthless hands of the white man. History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan A Grammar of Their Language, and Personal and Family History of the Author There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in a tree; He is singing to me! Bird Neighbors I confidently predict that the voice of this brown thrush will lure you out of a life which, to put it mildly, is a trifle matter-of-fact and material. A Face Illumined |
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