| 单词 | redbird |
| 例句 | Early in the morning, before the sun had thrown its first ray or the redbirds chirped their first note, all four children were gathered in the boys’ bedroom. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to roll it in my palm like the head of a small redbird until it sang to me. 2016: Our Year in Poems 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z J. Drew Lanham, a wildlife ecologist at Clemson University who grew up in South Carolina, fondly remembered learning his local birds by the nicknames his grandmother taught him: redbirds, bee-martins, rain crows. Plant a Love of Nature in Your Kids 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z One room had great, big magnolias with redbirds, another had daylilies. Hattiesburg’s Henington House: 113 years of history 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Several years ago, before I learned the worth of a messy yard, an alpha redbird established his territory here. Opinion | Let Your Winter Garden Go Wild 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Photograph: Diamond Images/Getty Images Uniforms are a big part of franchise identity: the Detroit Tigers’ Old English “D”, the Yankees’ interlocking NY and pinstripes, the Cardinals redbirds on the bat, and so on. The Joy of Six: US sports uniforms that will make your eyes bleed 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Common Alumni: Hundreds of players have worn both distinctive jerseys: redbirds on the bat for the Cardinals, bull's-eye “C” for the Cubs. N.L. Division Series Preview: Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Bunny Rabbit, who felt quite spry again, frisked about too, and the redbird flew overhead, flapping his wings with joy, for he was so glad everything had turned out so merrily. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Can she log in later from home and knock down that last angry redbird? Editorial: Words With Taxis 2012-02-23T02:54:42Z Cardinals will generally defer to bigger birds, or to birds that arrive at the feeder in flocks, but this redbird would not cede the airspace around that feeder for anyone. Opinion | Let Your Winter Garden Go Wild 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z And we'd sit there in the grass and listen to the redbirds in the cedars, and make up stories about all the people lying there asleep. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z The redbird excepted, he is the sole bit of lively color in our winter landscape. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z You see a redbird at the north so rarely that a thrill of excitement is felt when a flash of scarlet among the tree-tops makes the day a red-letter one on your bird calendar. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The little machine flew along the hard sandy road like a redbird on the wing. The Motor Maids' School Days 2011-09-17T02:00:33.303Z She looked hurriedly about, but there was nobody in sight—nobody but a saucy squirrel perched upon a park bench, and a redbird flitting along the open between the enclosing hawthorns. America First 2011-07-15T02:00:25.100Z And westward dips the crescent of the moon Through great cloud-feathers, flushed with rosy ray, That close around the crystal of her lune The redbird wings of Day. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z In the woods," said Mary, thoughtfully, "the dew drips tinkling from the leaves; Jeffers, the redbird, was never born, but hatched. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z In the Southern States, one of the most familiar birds in the orange groves, orchards, and woods of pine and oak, is the summer tanager, another smooth-headed redbird, but without a black feather on him. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The cardinal grossbeak, or Virginia redbird, is quite common in the same localities, though more inclined to seek the woods. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z There were redbirds, too, and bluebirds and blackbirds—pewees, thrushes, vireos, kingfishers—all flocking in with the red and gold of the sunrise, making the dun meadows bright and melodious with their plumage and song. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z The redbirds, flashing through the hedges, fluttered disconsolately. The Valiants of Virginia Now morns are full of song; The catbird and the redbird and the jay Upon the hilltops rouse the rosy day, Who, dewy, blithe, and strong, Lures their wild wings along. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems A redbird carolled to its mate in the top of a wayside elm, and she laughed like a child. Clover and Blue Grass There was the summer redbird common in the Southern States, but this place is much beyond its northern limit, and, besides, this bird is not scarlet, but is of a dull red. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt On a fallen log a redbird sang with jubilant note. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge When a redbird flirted by, to his delight she whistled its call so perfectly that it wheeled in mid-flight and tilted inquiringly back toward them. The Valiants of Virginia Now in sight, perchance in hearing Of the melancholy plover, Of the bluebird’s thrilling whistle, Of the redbird’s gentle chirping, Of the blackbird’s noisy chatter, Of the whippoorwill’s soft pleading, And the ringdove’s tender cooing. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. It is a wonderful thing how the frost glistening on a rail, or a redbird chirping in a thicket of purple raspberry briers, can lift the heart into the sun. Dwellers in the Hills Here happy redbirds glint and gloom, The wildrose sheds a sweet perfume, But death oft lurks in leaf and bloom, Down Lover's Lane! The Loom of Life A redbird arose from the grass at their approach and circled away into the blue ether, and a rabbit, startled by the crackling of a twig, scattered away into the deeper undergrowth. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge The peevish catbird and the blue jay grumble, while the thrush, the dove, and the redbird peep caressingly to their mates, and again fall asleep with gurgles of contentment in their throats. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties I had a pet goat, but I sold it, and now I have a very handsome redbird that my grandpa gave me. Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly He heard a redbird whistling in the distance. Shaman But oh! for the cove where the redbirds sing By the crystal wave of the mossy spring, And a draught from the Old Drinking Gourd. The Loom of Life We have beautiful redbirds, bluebirds, and woodpeckers here, and a pair of mocking-birds have built their nest in a rose-bush near our window. Harper's Young People, May 18, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly There are four or five pretty redbirds staying in our yard, and lots of snowbirds. Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly When the little redbirds began to visit the lawn there were exciting times. A Bird-Lover in the West A redbird, her namesake, trilled long and loud, and another answered from a more distant tree. Shaman It became a standing remark among the boys that he was a Union redbird and had enlisted in our regiment to sound the reveille. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 You cannot make a wren out of a redbird, even if you are the God of both. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Already the scarlet sumac lit the road with its flaming torch, and here and there on the mountainside a flash of scarlet like a redbird’s wing appeared among the masses of foliage. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp The sky was a glory, the Wilderness rolled in emerald waves, the redbirds sang. The Long Roll Pope's Creek, as it rippled along, made pleasant music, the partridges drummed in the under brush, and the redbirds whistled weirdly in the leafless chestnut grove near the swash. Second Book of Tales The redbird can never be reconciled to confinement; he is of the forest; the wildness of his peculiar note indicates the restlessness of his nature. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice The redbird is singing in the tree, his plumage all the brighter for the winter's bleaching. Watch Yourself Go By A redbird, alert, crested, and with a brilliant eye, perched idly on the vines about the porch, having relinquished for the day the job of teaching a small, stubby imitation of himself to fly. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Of course the redbird's nest was swinging on the bough, and the minnows were in the pool, and the blockhouse was standing, and the sun shining with all its might! The Long Roll The one Mary liked best was Brackenridge Park, where long, gray streamers of Spanish moss hang from the trees, and bright redbirds flit among the branches. Mary's Rainbow A careless, heedless neighbor had caught and caged a redbird, and the mournful twittering of the poor creature as he fluttered incessantly behind the bars of his prison pained and haunted me. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice I want to follow the path down by the big spring, through the hazel bushes, where the cotton tail jumped up just ahead of you and the redbird sang his sweetest song. Watch Yourself Go By A pair of redbirds came and went—flashes of scarlet against the whiteness of a blossoming dogwood-tree. Judy In the pauses of the thrush sounded the cheery whistle of the redbird, the crying of the catbird, the liquid tones of the song sparrow, and the giddy exclamations of the pewee. The Voice of the People The man forgot that the result might have been different if the redbirds had been older. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Can it be that Stephen is really in earnest?" asked the older woman of her disturbed heart; and the next instant, shaking her wise head, she added, "Poor little redbird! One Man in His Time Tied at the other hip was a bundle of feathers that made gay colour against the grey monotony, feathers of the bluebird, the redbird, blackbird and dove. The Desert Valley Can I believe that the squirrel and the redbird love me, when they flee from me? The Redemption of David Corson In a clump of briers across the stream was the nest of a pair of redbirds that I was watching. Roof and Meadow Johnny Morris capered and danced and jumped so hard in the exuberance of his joy at receiving the redbird that all the way to the sitting room his mother was coaxing him to be quiet. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird If a redbird had flown into the heated glare of the ballroom Stephen's gaze would have followed it with the same startled and fascinated attention. One Man in His Time In the forest the bloodroot was in flower, and the bluebird and the redbird flashed from the maple that was touched with fire to the beech just lifted from a pale green fountain. Audrey It is too bad," she cried, hastening toward him sympathetically, "but see, there is a redbird on the top of that old birch tree. The Redemption of David Corson Just as she disappeared, a redbird in its gorgeous uniform flitted dipping across the road, and, taking his place in a bush, began to sing imperiously for his mate. Gordon Keith "Did you ever see Johnny afterward?" we asked the redbird. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Or flash of roses seen Like redbirds' wings? Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury The creeping pace, the languid warmth of the afternoon, the scent of flowering trees, the ceaseless singing of redbird, catbird, robin, and thrush, made it drowsy in the forest. Audrey Many redbirds have no crest, and I am glad that one of your birds has one. New National First Reader "Georgiana," I said, "do you know what became of the redbird?" Aftermath "But supposing it wasn't a canary," said Polly hesitatingly; "supposing it might be a redbird, or a wren, or—or——" "Or a bobolink?" Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Where there were, a few years ago, thousands of blue herons, egrets, wood ducks, redbirds, and Baltimore orioles, all those birds are now almost extinct in this state. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation When the redbird spread his sable wing, And showed his side of flame; When the rosebud ripened to the rose, In both I read thy name. Poems Household Edition Yes, sister, but you would have to get a much larger cage than the one your redbirds have. New National First Reader Darkest among these lay the shapes of the cedars and the pines in which the redbird had lived. Aftermath Among our acquaintances was a lame redbird who at one time had been trapped and made a prisoner, confined behind the bars of a wire cell for many weeks and months. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird He sniffed the familiar odor, and listened to a redbird's whistle, and to a mocking-bird echoing it; and to the fiddling of grasshoppers, the whispers of trees, the quiet, soft movement of the swamp water. The Purple Heights In their hair they braided eagle plumes, hawk wings, or the brilliant plumage of the tanager and redbird. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 It must be something very rude, the redbird's bearing makes me think so. Round Anvil Rock A Romance "I don't know as redbirds are so scarce 'at I've any call to wade through slush a half-mile to see one," answered Maria. The Song of the Cardinal He knew of a probable customer for it in a gentleman named Morris, who had been advertising in the papers for a redbird. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird He felt himself a part of the one life of the universe, one with the whistling redbird, the toiling ants, the fluttering butterflies, the chirping grasshoppers, the great brown snake, the trees, the water. The Purple Heights Excited redbirds darted among the bushes, and the Harvester answered their cry. The Harvester He swung me to the ground, and we crossed the road, climbed the fence, and in a minute our redbird swamp shut the schoolhouse and cross old Miss Amelia from sight. Laddie; a true blue story The child saw the redbird and immediately claimed him, and that same day the edict went forth that a very dreadful time was in store for any one who harmed or even frightened the Cardinal. The Song of the Cardinal After a little further talk, Mr. Morris counted out the money, and the man went back to his home doubtless wishing he had a hundred more redbirds to sell at the same handsome profit. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird I would twang the redbird's wings In the thicket while he sings! Riley Child-Rhymes A redbird flashed from a rosebush and a mocking bird from a huge magnolia began to softly sing his morning love song to his mate. The Man in Gray A lyric there the redbird lifts, While, twittering, the swallow drifts 'Neath wandering clouds of sleepy cream,— In which the wind makes azure rifts,— O'er dells where wood-doves dream. Poems He was the biggest, most aggressive redbird in the Limberlost, and easily reigned king of his kind. The Song of the Cardinal Once a redbird shot confidently down from above on half-closed wing, caught sight of these intruders, brought up with a swish of feathers, and eyed them gravely for some time from a neighbouring treelet. The Claim Jumpers And all the while the redbird whistles in the shrubbery. A Florida Sketch-Book A catbird cried from a rosebush, a redbird flashed and chirped from the hedge and a colt whinnied for his mother. The Man in Gray Deepening with tenderness, Sadder the blue of hills that lounge along The lonesome west; sadder the song Of the wild redbird in the leafage yellow.— Poems "I wish to God," he said quaveringly, "'at every creature on earth was as well fixed as me an' the redbird!" The Song of the Cardinal "It was a redbird, I suppose," I said, in mentioning it later to a city acquaintance. The American Child At that moment a female redbird flew out of the bush. A Florida Sketch-Book One is the impression made upon me by a redbird which the "hired girl" brought in from the woodpile, one day with a pail of chips. Our Friend John Burroughs The cardinal grosbeak, or Virginia redbird, is quite common in the same localities, though more inclined to seek the woods. Wake-Robin If it's about the redbirds, he's been up to the garden three times this morning yellin', 'See here!' fit to split; an' I jest figured that their little ones had hatched. The Song of the Cardinal Then," she observed, with an air of finality, "it was a cardinal grosbeak; and the other name for that is redbird; so you saw a redbird. The American Child But the redbirds, many and conspicuous as they were, had no monopoly of the road or of the day. A Florida Sketch-Book There were mocking-birds, the most attractive of all birds, and blue grosbeaks, and cardinals and summer redbirds, instead of scarlet tanagers, and those wonderful singers the Bewick's wrens, and Carolina wrens. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Under the general head of finches, Audubon describes over sixty different birds, ranging from the sparrows to the grosbeaks, and including the buntings, the linnets, the snowbirds, the crossbills, and the redbirds. Wake-Robin "Did you shoot at that redbird?" he roared. The Song of the Cardinal The scarlet tanager is red, too, but it has black wings, and it isn't called a redbird; and the crossbill is red, with a few white feathers, and it isn't called a redbird either. The American Child The martins would be cackling, in any event, and the kingbirds practicing their aerial mock somersaults; and the mocking-bird would be singing, and the redbird whistling. A Florida Sketch-Book Is it oriole, redbird, or bluebird, Or some strange, un-Auduboned new bird? The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 In the South still there is scarcely an orchard that does not contain this tropical-looking beauty — the redbird par excellence, the sweetest singer of the family. Bird Neighbors Biggest reddest redbird I ever saw; an' jest a master hand at king's English! The Song of the Cardinal Not long after I had been so earnestly assured that the scarlet bird I had seen was a redbird, I made occasion to go to the library in which the information had been gathered. The American Child I'd as soon see you dig up the underbrush, an' dry up the river, an' spoil the picture they make against the sky, as to hev' you drop the redbird. The Song of the Cardinal |
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