| 单词 | bullfinch |
| 例句 | In his madness, King George III tried to teach his pet bullfinches to sing. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-11-13T19:00:06Z I can just hear him shouting to his wife and daughters that “we have a bellowing of bullfinches on the bird feeder, quick!” The Great Outdoors: From Your Backyard to a Garden in Japan 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Her bedroom menagerie included an orphaned crow, a badger cub, a wounded jackdaw and a whole nest of baby bullfinches. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z In Barbados, for example — where Dr. Lefebvre maintains a field station — tourists often see native bullfinches eating remains of food on tables, including sugar from bowls. These Birds Eat Fire, or Close to It, to Live Another Day 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The St. Kitts bullfinch also fell victim to hurricanes in the late 19th century, Dr. Wunderle said. Hurricanes May Kill Some Birds, but Humans Are the Real Threat 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Today, “birds” alone lists woodpeckers, crossbills, jackdaws, crows, robins, thrushes, blue tits and great tits, goldfinches, bullfinches, ospreys, lapwings, oystercatchers, kestrels, a pheasant and several varieties of owl. From sharks to chimps to moon bears: tales of a supervet 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Later they were joined by an orphaned crow, an injured jackdaw, a badger cub and a nest of baby bullfinches rendered homeless by a neighbor’s hedge-pruning. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Watch a video of a clever bullfinch at work. Brainy Birds Know How to Reel in Food With String The research team used 53 bullfinches captured from different parts of Barbados for the study. City Birds are Smarter And Stronger Than Country Birds: Study 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z When I was 12, I reared a brood of baby bullfinches brought to me by a neighbor who had felled their nest tree. Rescuing Wildlife Is Futile, and Necessary 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Incidentally, this is the second deceased Common bullfinch I’ve acquired over the years. Thrilling encounters with freak passerine birds 2014-05-05T22:52:44Z The 2013 Big Garden Birdwatch survey results mirrored this pattern, with starling numbers sinking to an all time low and declines reported for house sparrows, bullfinches and dunnocks compared to the previous year. Birdwatchers asked to count badgers 2014-01-23T09:52:59Z Urban Barbados bullfinches are better at problem-solving than their rural counterparts. Brainy Birds Know How to Reel in Food With String Birdlife partners are also establishing projects globally to protect endangered birds such as the African penguin, spoon-billed sandpiper and Azores bullfinch. Birds 'show value of conservation' 2013-06-20T00:23:32Z From yon thorny bush don’t you hear the blackbird’s sweet notes? while the mellow bullfinch answers those notes from yonder sylvan grove.” The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z Crested tits and bullfinches lived in great numbers in this forest and gave it quite a homelike appearance. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Have you never been through a bullfinch where you must part the clustering branches if you were to scramble through and avoid the wondrous wise man's bramble-bush experience? Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z Barbados bullfinches and grackles join a growing list of animals that demonstrate complex problem-solving skills, a new study says. Brainy Birds Know How to Reel in Food With String I heard a whisper as I went, 'The Jolly Roger's at the peak'; A bullfinch in a lighted room Was a parrot in a far-off creek. Kensington Rhymes 2012-03-15T02:00:28.607Z Red′-bird, the common European bullfinch: the United States grosbeak, also the tanager.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z As the afternoon advances, a grey haze creeps over the far-famed Harboro' Vale, shrouding alike "bullfinches" and "double-oxers," into which sinks a golden sun behind a bank of crimson and purple clouds. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z As he came near Bevagna in the plain a new crowd of listeners awaited him—troops of fluttering birds—bullfinches, rooks, doves, "a great company of creatures without number." The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Who shall tell us why the grass is green, the rose is red, that bullfinch on the pear-tree so glorious in his gaudiness, and that sparrow so humble in his coat of brown? The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z Yes, and the beautiful bullfinch and the gaudy goldfinch as well, to say nothing of the siskin and canary, so it cannot be plebeian. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z A bullfinch came to the hawthorn hedge just above the hatch, looked in and out once or twice, and then stepped inside the spray near his nest. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The goldfinches use the same route; so do the bullfinches. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Though you can't see daylight through me, still I'm not a bullfinch. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Charles Reiche, the New York partner, came to this country a very poor boy, and began peddling canaries, bullfinches, and other songbirds. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z Were it himself, no ordinary obstacle could prevent his being present at that archery meeting, any more than would five-barred gate, or bullfinch, hinder him from keeping up with hounds. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z With the exception of the single species of bullfinch already noticed as occurring in Alaska, all the above forms of finches are peculiar to the Palaearctic Region. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The brown linnet is another regular visitor building in the orchard; so too the blackcap, whose song, though short, is sweet; and the bold bright bullfinches use the close-cropped hawthorn. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z "Half of 'em funked that bullfinch, and there's one fellow in the ditch——" She reeled in her saddle. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z His fine skin will cause him to be a little shy of thick bullfinches, and his sagacity mistrusts deep or blind ditches, such as less intelligent animals would run into without a thought. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z No, my dear, I don’t think it is; but I seemed to fancy that I should like to have a piping bullfinch. The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z Crash through a bullfinch went Alexander O'Mulligan, the pride of the Blazers. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z There were no chaffinches in the elms or in the road, and scarcely a sparrow; not a yellowhammer on the hedge by the cornfield; only a very few greenfinches; not a single bullfinch or goldfinch. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Were it himself no ordinary obstacle could prevent his being present at that archery meeting, any more than would five-barred gate, or bullfinch, hinder him from keeping up with hounds. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z A man who never jumps at all can by no possibility be “pounded,” whereas the easiest and safest of gaps into an inclosure may mean a bullfinch with two ditches at the other end. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z The merchant went into the drawing-room very readily, and submitted to several little pleasant attentions from wife and daughter, as he asked questions about the bullfinch, laughing slily the while at Madelaine. The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z In Great Britain we see well-marked sexual differences in, for instance, the wild-duck which pairs with a single female, with the common blackbird, 269and with the bullfinch which is said to pair for life. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z As they neared a ragged bullfinch hedge at the top of a long slope, he saw Sangatte put on speed and take it right in the middle, head down and forearm across his eyes. H.M.S. —— You shall have the grey four-year-old; Billiard-ball, and he will suit you exactly, for he is as light as a bird, checks at nothing, and will take you safe over the stiffest bullfinch. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The bullfinch was duly placed in the museum, where it really looked very well. The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story You take me too much for granted; like the chirrup of a squirrel, let me say, or the whistle of a bullfinch. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life This one species, which inhabits the Azores, appears to be more closely related to one of the Siberian bullfinches than to the European. The History of the European Fauna The newly arrived bullfinch, or greywing, having the notoriety that a Parisian circulates about the last d�butante of the ballet or the opera. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) In time there were added to the cats and dog a chameleon, a pair of small alligators, guinea-pigs, rabbits, a bullfinch, and a robin with a broken wing. Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer "Doesn't it look a little fatter on one side than on the other?" suggested Cathy, doubtfully surveying the bullfinch, which was wired upon a twig as no bird in real life had ever perched. The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story There was a chattering all together of goldfinches, pewits, tomtits, woodpeckers, bullfinches, and thrushes. Toilers of the Sea The term finch, also, according to some, may mean either the bullfinch or goldfinch. Folk-lore of Shakespeare The bold and handsome bullfinch builds in the low hawthorn hedge which bounds it upon one side. The Hills and the Vale The house-sparrow and the bullfinch are the chief, but not the only, enemies. The Book of Pears and Plums A bullfinch can be apparently quite well one minute and the next you find him lying at the bottom of the cage. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes He wore a canary-coloured waistcoat and walked like a fastidious and graceful bullfinch. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings —No, said the bullfinch, he's not an artist; with his silver breeches, he's more of a prince. Letters from my Windmill He sang much more sweetly and softly than most larks, and was a dear little bird, almost as tame as my pet bullfinch. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Market Plums If a planter prefers to grow gages, he must protect his trees from bullfinches and other birds. The Book of Pears and Plums No bird is so fond of sitting on its owner's shoulder as the bullfinch can be. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes She must see, too, that her pet bullfinch was not neglected, and that her flowers were watered; for Audrey had a pretty sitting-room of her own. Lover or Friend —He's more of a prince, said the bullfinch. Letters from my Windmill The old ladies were as gaily dressed as bullfinches in spring-time. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 And the birds were of many kinds, too: robins, thrushes, bullfinches, mocking-birds, wrens, yellowtails and skylarks. Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland The bullfinch is squarely built, with a black head and pink breast. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes It takes about a year for a bullfinch to learn a tune. The Nursery, August 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers When a bullfinch has learned to sing two or three tunes, he is worth from forty to sixty dollars; for he will bring that price in London or Boston or New York. Music and Some Highly Musical People It has a head like the bullfinch, with one black-and-white streak under the neck coming to a point in the centre of the throat. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Excuse me," replied a bullfinch, in a dignified voice; "we haven't the honor of your acquaintance. Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland A lark and bullfinch followed,—friends, I suppose; and then the bride and bridegroom. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. When the bullfinch learns well, he is praised and petted, and this he seems to enjoy very much. The Nursery, August 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers It begins precisely at six in the evening, and consists of a blackbird, 55 a thrush, a robin redbreast and a bullfinch. Chelsea The Fascination of London Occasionally she whistled at her task—the clear, soft, melodious whistle of a bullfinch—carolling some light, ephemeral air from the "Review" at the Egyptian Garden. Athalie "Any decent person, even if he's a crow, is bound to respect the law," answered the bullfinch, calmly. Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland Of small birds there were introduced the house-sparrow, which is too prolific, and is hated by the farmers; the greenfinch, a pest; the bullfinch, a failure. More Science From an Easy Chair What in the world has a sailor to do with training bullfinches, I want to know?' The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys The practice of cutting and laying hedges is so general in the Midlands, that we rarely see a bullfinch which does not show signs of having been tampered with in this manner. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Under ordinary conditions, no seed was found to germinate after passing through the turkey, hen, pigeon, crossbill, bullfinch, goldfinch, nutcracker, titmouse, and the duck. Seed Dispersal It took the mocking bird and the bullfinch a whole afternoon to comfort her, while Mr. Wren hopped around in nearly as much distress as his wife. Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland Mr. James Hiam, well known in Worcestershire for his "Notes on Natural History," sends me the following description of his method of trapping bullfinches: Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Mrs. Vesey didn't know; she told me about the bullfinches, but she couldn't say how the arm was lost. The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys Consequently, bullfinches are gradually going out of fashion in the Shires, and are generally converted into cut-and-laid fences, of which there is an example in Fig. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. A wood fire burned cheerily on the white marble hearth, and the winter sunlight fell brightly on the flower-stand full of flowers—amidst which the piping bullfinch, Puffball, hopped about. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls There is a picture by Sir Edwin Landseer, of a squirrel and bullfinch. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. I find a trap cage or cages best, for bullfinches generally go in small parties, and I have taken two out at once from two separate cages, while others waited round and were caught afterwards. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. It seems he knows a rare lot about training young bullfinches to pipe real tunes. The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys I have forgotten to give the bullfinch his food. A Nobleman's Nest Not only does the great swan think, but so does your parrot, and25 your piping bullfinch, and the little canary that hops on your thumb. Popular Adventure Tales Blue and rosy jays flew up before them, fluttering away through the thickets; a bullfinch whistled sweetly from a thorn bush, watching them pass under him, unafraid. Barbarians When fresh caught, bullfinches are best placed in a low kind of box cage about six inches deep, with wires only on one side. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. In order to pipe tunes as bullfinches so marvellously do, they have to go through a period of training, and downright severe training the hapless mites find it. The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys He plumes himself like a bullfinch going to sing. Ralph the Heir See my colours how bright they are, so that you would hardly know me from a bullfinch. Wood Magic A Fable It is, however, now thought by intelligent persons that the only buds destroyed by the bullfinch are those infested with insects, so that he really confers a benefit on us instead of doing mischief. Mamma's Stories about Birds The Alpe, or bullfinch, mentioned in the above lines, also survives as a surname. The Romance of Names Mrs Howell went on till she came to directions about the bullfinch that her poor dear Howell used to laugh to see perched upon her nightcap of a morning; and then she grew unintelligible. Deerbrook I have heard that a needle thrust into52 the eye of a bullfinch will make it sing, but I did not know that misery could transform a merchant to a bard. The Flaw in the Sapphire The bullfinch tossed his head, and asked the goldfinch to come up in the bush and see which was strongest. Wood Magic A Fable I will conclude with a pretty and affecting little story of a piping bullfinch that once belonged to Sir William Parsons. Mamma's Stories about Birds “The piping bullfinch,” said Mary, without an instant’s hesitation. A Pair of Clogs Not only does the great swan think, but so does your parrot, and your piping bullfinch, and the little canary that hops on your thumb. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North The bullfinch, whose natural notes are weak, harsh, and insignificant, has nevertheless a wonderful musical faculty, since it can be taught to whistle complete tunes. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays The most conspicuous bird is the cardinal, though scarcely larger than a bullfinch, as his bright scarlet plumage is seen flitting about amid the dark green jungle. My First Voyage to Southern Seas When young he was a great musician, and had taught his bullfinch to sing "God Save the King." Mamma's Stories about Birds I heard also that “Dicky Chips” was as frolicsome and light-hearted a bullfinch as when Min first had him, and had learnt several new tricks. She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. He would be idolised—a very nice situation, indeed, for a bullfinch! She and I, Volume 1 Two bright bold bullfinches pass; they have a nest somewhere in the thick hawthorn. Round About a Great Estate The bullfinch is a native of the northern countries of Europe, occurring in Italy and other southern parts only as a winter visitor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" But before they had done with the bullfinch, a frightened woman came hurrying up with the news that old Sally Dart was taken bad. The Drummer's Coat Mrs. James laughed, a well-trained little laugh she has, which seems taught to go on so far and no farther—like the tune I once heard a bullfinch sing in a shop. The Heather-Moon In doing so I lighted upon Dicky Chips, as I subsequently christened him: a sturdy little bullfinch, who looked somewhat out of place, and lonesome, amongst his screaming companions from foreign lands. She and I, Volume 1 Of their old tricks they remembered nothing, except to stumble at a “stretchy” chord, a perfect bullfinch of a chord, bristling with “accidentals,” where in their youth they had been apt to shy. The Judgment of Eve White and black varieties are occasionally met with; the latter are often produced by feeding the bullfinch exclusively on hempseed, when its plumage gradually changes to black. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" This he opened, and took from it a bullfinch, which perched on his finger without attempting to fly away. The Drummer's Coat The rarest bird seems to be the bullfinch. Nature Near London He was “Dicky Chips:”—the funniest, quaintest, most intelligent, and most amusing little bullfinch you ever clapped eyes on. She and I, Volume 1 There is no sound but the scratching of the quill pen as it flies over the paper, and the chirping of a bullfinch in a cage in the bow-window. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance Bullfinches are very abundant in the forests of Germany, and it is there that most of the piping bullfinches are trained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Lady Eleanor hesitated for a moment, and then said that he must come and see the bullfinch. The Drummer's Coat I have only seen bullfinches three or four times in three seasons, and then only a pair. Nature Near London The bullfinch tossed his head, and asked the goldfinch to come up in the bush and see which was stronger. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. She took from her book-shelves Cowper, and made me acquainted with his hares, Tiny and Bess, and enlisted my sympathies for his imprisoned bullfinch. Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 The truth is, Greuze is as sentimental as a bullfinch, but he has hardly a natural note in his gamut. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture If he attempts to take some of our big banked bullfinches in his stride, with a yawner on each side, will get into grief.' Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour To prevent or attempt to prevent the owner of a garden from shooting the bullfinches or blackbirds and so on that steal his fruit, or destroy his buds, is absurd. Nature Near London But at that time no seeds or fruits fit for bullfinches to eat existed on the islands. Science in Arcady When I could not find any bodies I amused myself with making wreaths to hang over particularly nice poor beasts, such as a bullfinch or a kitten. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men If a chaffinch or a bullfinch could talk and had begun to assure me that it would claw another bird, it would not have caused me greater astonishment than did Iván on that occasion.—What! A Reckless Character And Other Stories Goldfinches, bullfinches, a few thrushes, and other autumn birds, were sitting in the aspen trees. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel "Of course you will, I could have told you that ever so long ago," chirped a little bullfinch in the tree overhead. Doctor Claudius, A True Story Now, however, there was no bullfinch to eat them. Science in Arcady The nightingale proposed the lark, the thrush, the blackbird and the bullfinch as experts in singing, and the frog proposed the starling, the linnet, the chaffinch and the reed-warbler. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 There is no reason why he should never look chic; he has a slimmer figure than the bullfinch, for instance, who always manages to look so well-tailored. Living Alone On one end of the chest of drawers stood a yellow canary on a red pear, and on the other end a red bullfinch on a yellow pear. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel I have a cage full of tiny parrots not bigger than bullfinches, of a dark green colour, with dark red throats and blue heads, yellow marks on the back, and red and yellow tails. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months For a long time, indeed, no other bullfinches arrived at my archipelago. Science in Arcady They say that he himself led the charge, covered in a wonderful silken surcoat, colour of a bullfinch's breast, and wrought upon in black and white heraldry. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay He searched for a bullfinch's nest; but he did not find one, though he saw several of the birds singing in the snowberry bushes; round and ruddy as October apples they looked. The Altar Steps The cage is fixed to a shallow lacquer tray, and is the nicest place you can imagine for a whistling bullfinch to live in. The House in Good Taste But the bullfinches happened to be away, and she wished that the priests' drone would cease to interrupt the melody of the birds and boughs. Sister Teresa For example, during the age of the Forest Beds in Europe, a stray bullfinch was driven out to sea by a violent storm, and perched at last on a bush at Fayal. Science in Arcady Barbs.—These are remarkable for their very short and thick beak, so unlike that of most pigeons that fanciers compare it with that of a bullfinch. Darwinism (1889) There were organs and drums and trumpets; there were little thrush flutes and bullfinch pipes; there were gurgling brooks and singing water-sprites, tinkling bluebells and thrumming woodpeckers. The Emperor of Portugalia The bullfinches were amazed at seeing me alone. Abbe Mouret's Transgression I suppose you were listening to the bullfinches. Sister Teresa I tried it for bullfinches, but did not succeed from lack of the dexterity required. The Amateur Poacher Which eggs do you like best—a goldfinch's or a bullfinch's? Aylwin The waggons are loaded, not with hay, not with cabbages, nor with beans, but with goldfinches, siskins, larks, blackbirds and thrushes, bluetits, bullfinches. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories By day he walks up and down the ward from window to window, or sits on his bed, cross-legged like a Turk, and, ceaselessly as a bullfinch whistles, softly sings and titters. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories "Mother Superior tells me you have taught bullfinches the motives of 'The Ring,' is it true?" Sister Teresa Beside it were all the animals he had loved best while on earth: a little red cat, two little gray cats, two little white cats, a bullfinch, and two goldfish. Romance of the Rabbit Here is the skull of a bullfinch, and that of an eminent fiddler. Headlong Hall Of goldfinches and bullfinches he is ready to talk endlessly, opening his eyes wide and gesticulating violently with his hands. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories In the society of piping bullfinches, pink canaries, gray parrots, goldfish, green squirrels, Italian greyhounds, and French poodles, she sought a refuge from despair. Marriage Just fancy teaching bullfinches to sing the motives of 'The Ring,' It seemed to me I was in an enchanted garden. Sister Teresa "Well, I must be toddling," said Lucas, yawning as he looked idly at the coloured horses on each wall who were for ever passing winning-posts or soaring over bullfinches or throwing riders into brooks. The Roll-Call It amounted to 12 pounds 2 shillings and 9 pence in cash; but to this must be added a caged bullfinch, a pair of dumb-bells, a down mattress and an ophicleide. True Tilda The last noise I heard was the whistling of a bullfinch. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters And she warbled a sprightly French ariette to a tame bullfinch that flew upon her hand. Marriage So when a bullfinch knows two motives you let him go? Sister Teresa Foolish; for far better is the trained boudoir bullfinch, Which pipeth the semblance of a tune and mechanically draweth up water. Collections and Recollections Encouraged by his return and by the regular habits of my hypothetical bullfinch, Miss Ropes let him out again next day. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917 The larks sing above us out of sight, the bullfinch wakes his notes in the grove, and at eve the nightingale pours forth her thrilling strain. Views a-foot The garden, well stored with walnut, mulberry, and apple trees, contained a small study, with a head-stone, placed over a favourite bullfinch, on which the artist had etched the bird's head and written an epitaph. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 It isn't a canary bird, it's a bullfinch. Through the Wall “For life—like two bullfinches,” said the actress, who had not forgotten that these birds are noted for the fidelity of their armours. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Her face fell, but she turned away that he might not detect her disappointment, and began to feed her bullfinch in the window. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." Cranes and wild geese shrieked in the air, the bullfinches built nests, and the baby squirrels began playing on the branches of the trees. Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls It'll be the death of the little bullfinch in the shop, that draws his own water. Martin Chuzzlewit If they had said I was niece to a piping bullfinch, what would you care? Nicholas Nickleby “In China,” said Pan-Chao, “it is not the bullfinch but the mandarin duck that symbolizes fidelity in marriage.” The Adventures of a Special Correspondent A bullfinch pipes now and then further up the hedge where the brambles and thorns are thickest. Pageant of Summer I want you to whistle to my bullfinches; as I cannot see them, I like to hear them, and we teach 'em airs that way. Tess of the d'Urbervilles He shall have the little bullfinch in the shop, and all. Martin Chuzzlewit Two bullfinches recognised the signal, and immediately hastened to their perch. Vivian Grey Ah, no; it's the stupid bullfinches hopping in the bushes, whistling…. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Oh, I know what she must be," replied Lady Delacour: "a soft, sighing, dying damsel, who puts bullfinches into her bosom. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 You'll find her so; she must be, to make you learn to whistle to her bullfinches. Tess of the d'Urbervilles The bullfinches wore an unnatural crimson on their breasts. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Not at all scientific; but I, of course, can now tell a lory from a Java sparrow, and a bullfinch from a canary. Vivian Grey Lucy has painted a beautiful portrait of her bullfinch, picking at a bunch of white currants—the currants would, I am sure, be picked by any live bird. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 He left a bullfinch with Mrs. Smith, who gave it to Virginia, without telling to whom it had belonged, lest her grandmother might be displeased. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 He continued, however, always moody and serious, in spite of the utmost pains that the squirrel, the monkey, the parrot, and the bullfinch could take to divert him, and set him in the right way. Rampolli When the hedges are beaten for rabbits the bullfinches appear in families, their beautiful grey backs and exquisite rosy breasts looking their very best against the dark-brown, purply twigs. The Naturalist on the Thames They make the gals play music six hours a day, and you might as well set the hen bullfinches to pipe. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day The woodpecker could be heard amidst the pines, and daws, tomtits and bullfinches carolled merrily as they spread their wings and preened their plumage in the sun. Tales of the Wilderness A woman came here the other day with the bullfinch, and she looked at me, and spoke in such an extraordinary way, that I was shocked more than I can express. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 In separate cages hung, the same kind roof Sheltered a bullfinch and a raven bold, The one with song mellifluous charmed the house; The other's cries incessant wearied all. Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. About ten years ago we imported a great number of birds from abroad—yellow-hammers, chaffinches, green finches, red pales, twites, bullfinches, jays, linnets, larks—some five hundred of them. My Life and Work But to-day I have to listen to the lark's song—not out of doors with him, but through the window-pane, and the bullfinch carries the rootlet fibre to his nest without me. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The sky had darkened, becoming shrouded in a murky blue; bullfinches chirruped in the snow under the windows. Tales of the Wilderness To my shame be it spoken; my curiosity got the better of me, and I went—-but only on account of the bullfinch in the eyes of the world. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 All around him there sat as many finches and bullfinches and starlings as the bush could well hold—who sang songs which he tried to teach himself to play. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils The parrot was the clergyman, the peacock was the clerk, The bullfinch played the organ,--we made merry work. The Real Mother Goose The bullfinch bass, that other emperor, Leans back indifferently, and clears his throat As if to say, "This prelude leads to Me!" Watchers of the Sky The bright colours of a bullfinch were visible a moment just now, as he passed across the shadows farther down the garden under the damson trees and into the bushes. The Life of the Fields There was nothing that Rachel was anxious to carry away with her but a little bullfinch, of which she was very fond. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 And who is so honoured in Övid Cloister park now, as Thumbietot!" sang the bullfinch; "he, whom all feared when he was Nils the goose boy? The Wonderful Adventures of Nils He once saw a bullfinch in the last stages of pneumonia and almost comatose, show an instant reaction to the presence of an owner it had not seen in weeks. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Ah, merciful powers, I have forgotten to feed my bullfinch. A House of Gentlefolk A bullfinch pipes now and then further up the hedge where the brambles and thorns are thickest. The Life of the Fields Well, you took the bird, bullfinch, or Bobby, as you call it, home to its rightful owner, I presume? Tales and Novels — Volume 03 As a rider tears through a bullfinch, the officers forced their way through the press; and as an iron rake might be drawn through a heap of shingle, so the regiment followed. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan A start on the level, And then a stiff breather uphill; A bank at the top with a four-foot drop, And a bullfinch down by the mill. Songs of Action The disordered brain repeating "Bulls! bulls! bulls!" he then drew a bulldog, a pair of bullfinches surrounded by bulrushes, and a hooked bull trout fighting furiously for freedom. The Days Before Yesterday Your fact about the bullfinches in your garden is most curious on this head. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 The bullfinch was at this time piping away at a fine rate, and, as luck would have it, that very remarkable strange tune that I mentioned to you. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and he said, ‘Will you let me show you how to catch bullfinches down here by the stream?’ Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Bunting, reed, head feathers of the male; attacked by a bullfinch. The Descent of Man In cages suspended from the ceiling there were birds of strange form and bright plumage, which at our entrance set up a chorus of song, modulated into tune as is that of our piping bullfinches. The Coming Race Colouring or staining the fine red breast of a bullfinch with some innocuous matter into a dingy tint would be an analogous case, and then putting him and ordinary males with a female. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 And this young woman, when I told her my distress about the advertisement and the bullfinch, let me into the whole of the affair. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 And I—wanted to know very much—I did so long to have a bullfinch! Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school In Great Britain we see well-marked sexual differences, for instance, in the wild-duck which pairs with a single female, the common blackbird, and the bullfinch which is said to pair for life. The Descent of Man The bullfinch, who had fancied himself something of a despot, depressed himself of a sudden into a third of his normal displacement; then he fell to a helpless wing-beating and shrill cheeping. Reginald in Russia and other sketches I am sorry to hear that the painted bullfinch turns out to be a female; though she has done us a good turn in exhibiting her jealousy, of which I had no idea. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 She recollected that she had met him somewhere before, and the moment he spoke, she knew him to be the gentleman who had fallen into ecstasies in the shop at Twickenham, about the bullfinch. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Thrushes, and blackbirds, and sparrows, and chaffinches, and greenfinches, and bullfinches, and tomtits. Madam How and Lady Why The whispering voices of these brooks were so numerous and so loud that they drowned the song of the bullfinches. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola Egbert recognised it immediately, because it was the only air the bullfinch whistled, and he had come to them p. 9with the reputation for whistling it. Reginald in Russia and other sketches In your letter of April 14th you mention the case of about twenty birds which seemed to listen with much interest to an excellent piping bullfinch. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 I suspected, from the symptoms, that the gentleman must be, or must have been, in love with the bullfinch's mistress. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 I am glad to hear reports about the ferocious female bullfinch. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Then he lifted his velvet forepaws in the air and leapt lightly on to a bookshelf immediately under the bullfinch’s cage. Reginald in Russia and other sketches |
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