| 单词 | dicky-bird |
| 例句 | He is played by Lee Majors, clad in Wagnerian fantasy gold armour, an inexplicable Lone Ranger mask and a fancy helmet with a dicky-bird on top. The Norseman: from bad to Norse 2013-07-04T15:27:57Z He went to catch a dicky-bird, And thought he could not fail, Because he had got a little salt To put upon his tail. The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes 2012-01-15T03:00:17.137Z I had a feeling as if a little dicky-bird were singing in my heart. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z He laughed at his friends' advice, told them he was not afraid of a dicky-bird, and disdaining the proffered tackey started off straightway in the forbidden direction. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z ‘And the dicky-bird sang in the tree,’” she trilled out, as step by step she drew herself up into the crown of the stumpy, gnarled pollard. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One But Smut shook his head, as if to say, "I am not a dicky-bird, sweet maid, but only a four-legged cat;" then they opened the birdcage door, and he walked out, waving his tail. Very Short Stories and Verses For Children Why, she'll hop into the carriage like a dicky-bird: then she'll have a bit of a cry, and then she'll recover, and be mad with the delight of escaping from those behind her. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 As one defaulter, whose confusion of brain had led him into trouble, observed to his mates: “What can you do with a blighter who’s a cross between a blinking Archbishop and a ruddy dicky-bird?” The Rough Road Ain’t got no more sense for this life than a dicky-bird. Northern Lights But all I can do is warble like a darn' dicky-bird. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life The hymns proved to be nursery rhymes of salvation set to what may be described as lightly spinning dicky-bird music. A Circuit Rider's Wife "Here's an old sourdough like me hittin' the trail with a broom in one fist and—by he—hen, a dicky-bird in the other!" Where the Sun Swings North "Get down here and keep an eye on this dicky-bird," he ordered. The Price "It isn't 'measly' and it isn't a 'dicky-bird!'" she answered indignantly. Half A Chance I tell you I do the things which I do, as easily, as naturally, as happily as any fool of a dicky-bird does his infernal twittering on an April morning. The Common Law Then Hetty broke down and cried, confessing that she was eager to go to Mrs. Wrandall, at the same time sobbing out something about a symbolic dicky-bird, much to Mr. Carroll's wonder and perplexity. The Hollow of Her Hand "Do ye mean," he observed, "you come back here for that measly dicky-bird?" Half A Chance As the days grew short and bleak, she found herself thinking more and more of the happy-hearted, symbolic dicky-bird on a faraway window ledge. The Hollow of Her Hand |
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