| 单词 | mavis |
| 例句 | And e'en the merry mavis Will rank as rara avis— The sparrow, sole of all that sailed with Noah, Will learn the casual pot-shot to withstand! Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:33.287Z Merry it is in good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing; But merrier were they in Dumfermline gray When all the bells were ringing. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z From this point the eye glances up through the wooded glen, echoing with the songs of the mavis and the linnet, and over to a mineral well, sheltered by copsewood and pines. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z He entertained no gout, no ache he felt, The air was good and temperate, where he dwelt; While mavises and sweet-tongued nightingales Did sing him roundelays and madrigals. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The mavises sang to them nearly all the year through, sometimes even in snow time. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z The blackbirds and the mavises hardly trouble themselves to cease their song even when you walk close by the trees on which they are perched. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z I sing as sings the mavis in a wood, Content to be alive at harvest time. Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z The birds too, mavis, lintie, and bulfinch, are caroling among the trees, as if their little hearts were filled with boundless joy. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z That tree would then be green, the air fresh and sweet around it, the mavis singing in its leafy shade. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The mavis or speckled thrush is not only loud and bold in his tones, but he is what you might term a singer of humorous songs. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Spring flowers peeping through the brown earth, merle and mavis making music in the spruce and fir thickets, and louder than all the clear-throated chaffinch. Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z It was perceived involuntarily by the English ballad-singers, who strung a burden of "Fine flowers" upon a tale of infanticide, and bade blackbird and mavis sing their sweetest between a murder and an execution. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z No; if I must see and hear aright I have to walk slowly, and when the mavis is singing at close o' day I must halt altogether if I would listen as I ought. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z And a Burns can invoke the Throstle in lines as musical as the song of the bird itself—"And thou mellow mavis, that hails the night-fa'." An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z He is up long before the bickering sparrows, and eke before the mavis. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Upon the top of the tall ash, there I sat, with the mavis for my companion on one side, and the blackbird on the other. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 I can sing, my boy, like a mavis, like a bird-of-paradise. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec If a human being were to utter such inharmonious and disconnected tones as those produced by the mavis overhead, it would drive me to distraction. On the Heights A Novel So forty year have I bidden here, and heard little but the mavis sing and the cushie complain. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Robin sings quite late at night too, long after the mavis is mute and every other bird has retired. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z There is a piano in Ballister, and you would pick out a Scotch song in no time, for you sing like a mavis. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl My house is the loveliest spot in the universe; the moonlight nights we have are incredible; love, poetry and music, and the Arabian Nights, inhabit just my corner of the world—nest there like mavises. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) “Fine it minded me, ma’am, o’ the time when I was a boy, huntin’ like a nickum for the nests o’ mavis an’ merle–blackbird an’ thrush–when I’d rise ‘wi’ lark an’ light!’ Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl She heard a bird sing, a mavis I believe—was it not a mavis? The Grandee I have known my mavis now nearly two years, and I think he knows me. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Not negroes and not Mr. Hirsch; little Jenny, whose voice sounded as sweetly in his ears as the voice of the mavis, might be the one. Sielanka: An Idyll During the chairman's opening remarks the merry old man continued to whistle like a mavis. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Merry it is in good greenwood, 370 When the mavis and merle are singing, But merrier were they in Dunfermline gray,note When all the bells were ringing. Lady of the Lake I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I 've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Whether in Scotland or England, the mavis, or thrush, is one of the especial favourites of the pastoral poet and lyrist. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z But, hark that sound! the mavis! can it be? Spare Hours When the blythe lark lightly soaring, And the mavis on the spray, And the cuckoo in the greenwood, Sang hymns to greet the May. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing,note When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing. Lady of the Lake What Canadian birds could be substituted for the mavis and the cuckoo? Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature It is my impression that he does not go so far away from the nest of his pretty mate as the mavis, but then, perhaps, if he did he would not be heard. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z He has not the excuse of the mavis. Spare Hours Says I, 'It is the mavis That perches in the tree, And sings so shrill, and sings so sweet, When dawn comes up the sea.' Songs of Childhood Ah! the monk is no longer there to hear them, only the mavis calls and the bee in its period hums where matins rose. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Here the merry lark ascends on dewy wing, There the mellow mavis and the blackbird sing. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The mellow mavis tunes his lay, The blackbird swells his note, And little robin sweetly sings Above the woody grot.” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Dark, dark to me the pearly flowers, An' sad the mavis sang, An' little heart hae I to roam These leafy groves amang. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century It was the sound of the mavis singing. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Oh, lark, be day's apostle To mavis, merle and throstle, Bid them their betters jostle From day and its delights! How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions She has yellow hair-down to her feet, and she has blue eyes, like the sky on a fine day, and her voice like all the mavises singing in the spring. The Gold Of Fairnilee My mavis has four of these in his vocabulary, with which he constantly interlards his song, or rather songs. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The mellow mavis tunes his lay, The blackbird swells his note, And little robin sweetly sings Above the woody grot. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Down the burnside hurry thee, gentle mavis, Find the bothie, and flutter about the doorway. Ionica Something in the very sound of the language keeps for us the freshness of the imagery—the sweet-briar and the hawthorn, the mavis and the oriole—which has so long become publica materies. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) He never has those fine intervals of lunacy into which his cousins, the catbird and the mavis, are apt to fall. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 I am lingering longer with the mavis than probably I ought, simply because I want you all to love the bird as I love him. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z She could spin, sew, manage the dairy, sing with a voice equal to that of the mavis or blackbird, while her heart was as tender as that of any other sighing maiden. 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 Gentle mavis! hover about the window Where the sun shines on happy things of home life, Bid the clansmen troop to the gory dingle. Ionica Burns' version commences—"Hark the mavis' evening sang." The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century I thought him dead, and then I thought That life was young and love was free; For o'er our heads the mavis sang, And hameward hied the janty bee! The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The mavis is imitative of the songs of other birds. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Poor body! bewilder'd, I scarcely do ken The haunts that were dear ance to me; I yirded a plant in the days o' my youth, An' the mavis now sings on the tree. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century When the spreading trees are hoary With their wealth of promised glory, And the mavis sings its story, In the spring. The Ontario Readers Third Book In vain to me the cowslips blaw, In vain to me the vi’lets spring; In vain to me, in glen or shaw, The mavis and the lintwhite sing. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham The sun was setting on the Tay, The blue hills melting into gray; The mavis' and the blackbird's lay Were sweetly heard in Gowrie. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century And I shouldn’t think that even my mavis would dare to mock the nightingale. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Beneath the golden gloamin' sky, The mavis mends her lay, The redbreast pours his sweetest strains, To charm the ling'ring day. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century In book-land it was always June for him— "Springtime ne'er denied Indoors by vernal Chaucer, whose fresh woods Throb thick with merle and mavis all the year." The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. "I will tell you of the heather, the lark, and the mavis." Foes The mavis still doth sweetly sing, The blue bells sweetly blaw, The bonnie Earn 's clear winding still, But the auld house is awa'. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century In winter my mavis sings whenever the weather is mild and the grass is visible. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z She sang with the innocent rapture of a mavis in spring, in notes as rich and ardent as her own maiden dreams. The Bread-winners A Social Study The birds you have slain are for men's food," said she, "but the birds I speak of sing as sweetly as the mavis, and I have watched them tenderly for many sunny days past. The Thirsty Sword Whence clattering the pigeon flits, Or brooding o'er her thin eggs sits, And every hollow of the hills With echoing song the mavis fills. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 The sun was shining as if trying to make up for the days it had missed, the green shoots were pushing daringly forth, and a mavis in a holly-bush was chirping loudly and cheerfully. Penny Plain In a short time it resumed its spirits and its song—recommenced its rivalry with the mavis; but, after every moulting, the new feathers were always of the same coal-black colour. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 Says I, "It is the mavis That perches in the tree, And sings so shrill, and sings so sweet, When dawn comes up the sea." Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. He had found a half-fledged mavis lying dead in the grass. Tommy and Grizel He never has these fine intervals of lunacy into which his cousins, the catbird and the mavis, are apt to fall. My Garden Acquaintance The spring sunshine and the notes of the mavis had brought to her a rush of memories. Penny Plain The mavis evinced no corresponding feeling of attachment—neither, so far as I recollect, missing its companion, nor rejoicing at its restoration. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 England!" he whispers soft and harsh, "England!" repeated he, "And briar, and rose, and mavis, A-singing in yon high tree. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. My house is the loveliest spot in the universe; the moonlight nights we have are incredible; love, poetry and music, and the Arabian Nights, inhabit just my corner of the world - nest there like mavises. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 The fair calm eve on wood and wold Shone down with softest ray, Beneath the sycamore's red leaf The mavis trill'd her lay, Murmur'd the Tweed afar, as if Complaining for the day. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 He loves as the mavis sings or the kitten plays. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Scott, of Fanash, occurred under my own eye, and which, I have no doubt, was produced by grief at being separated from a mavis. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 The children sought thee in thy summer shade And made their playhouse rings of stick and stone; The mavis sang and felt himself alone While in thy leaves his early nest was made. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript "The primrose is the fairest flower, That springs on muir or dale; The mavis is the sweetest bird Next to the nightingale; And yellow gowd's the finest thing, That king or queen can wale." Ballad Book "D—n your bird's nest and mavis too, whatever that may be," roared little Mr Pepperpot. Tom Cringle's Log Sad is my heart, to no joy-shout replying, Restless, lamenting in grief never-dying; Oh, the mavis calls sweetly in drear deserts lone, But in vain I must yearn for the notes I have known. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses The surveyor started to sing again: I have heard the mavis singing Her love-song to the morn. Children of the Bush Presently it ceased before the broadening daylight, but in its stead, pure and clear and cold, arose the notes of the mavis, giving tuneful thanks and glory to its Maker. Dawn When they were in the gay greenwood, They heard the mavis sing; When they were up aboon the brae, They heard the kirk bells ring. Ballad Book You know how full of melody is an English wood, when thrush, blackbird, mavis, linnet, and a thousand warblers flit from tree to tree. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter The world, that cannot deeme of worthy things, When I doe praise her, say I doe but flatter: So does the cuckow, when the mavis* sings, Begin his witlesse note apace to clatter. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 And then the voice of her, liquid and soft like the call of merle or mavis. Beltane the Smith My Lord and Master Landry were gone down to the court meantime, and we were to lie off till we heard a whistle like a mavis on the bank, then come and take them aboard. The Chaplet of Pearls When he appears in the ballads as the merle, bracketed with his cousin the mavis, the song thrush, it is far easier to recognize him as the master singer that he is. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Merry it is in good greenwood, When the mavis and merle are singing, But merrier were they in Dunfermline gray, When all the bells were ringing. The Lady of the Lake If the royal eagle is the king, and the falcon is the true knight, the nightingale and mavis, merle and lark, are the minstrels. Two Penniless Princesses In vain to me the cowslips blaw, In vain to me the violets spring; In vain to me in glen or shaw, The mavis and the lintwhite sing. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 The merry lark her matins sings aloft; The thrush replies; the mavis descant plays; The ouzel shrills; the ruddock warbles soft; So goodly all agree, with sweet consent, To this day's merriment. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Your locks are as brown As the mavis in May, Your hearts are as warm As the sunshine to-day, But mine white and cold As the snow on the brae. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 Only let me bestow this iron cap where some mavis may nestle in it. The Caged Lion In vain to me the cowslips blaw, In vain to me the vi'lets spring; In vain to me in glen or shaw, The mavis and the lintwhite sing. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Oh, April tide’s a pleasant tide,However times may fall,And sweet to welcome Spring, the Bride,You hear the mavis call;But all adown the water-sideThe Spring’s most fair of all. Grass of Parnassus The sun was setting on the Tay, The blue hills melting into gray, The mavis and the blackbird's lay Were sweetly heard in Gowrie. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 |
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