Such captives were greatly prized in those days as presents for ladies of high rank, who kept them as pets, just as they would, at the present day, a beautiful Canary bird or a favorite pony.
He went into the peasant's house, and having, under some pretext or other, got possession of the falcon, he began to ride away with the bird on his wrist.
The 'whole,' be it bird or constellation, is nothing but our vision, nothing but an effect on our sensorium when a lot of things act on it together.
Slowly he paced the deck, with arms still folded, casting the piercing glances of a bird of prey across the waters; then of a sudden he roared once more with the true piratical hoarseness, "All hands on deck to splice the main brace!
Now Herr Schlugst did not rely so much on his propeller for speed as on his skilful adaptation of the principle on which the bird swoops.
The lady-bird opened its wings and flew over to the window.
We realized that you would not find your happiness with human beings and we have, therefore, decided to ask you to come to us and rule over the lady-bird realm on the forest pool, since your own kingdom has perished.
Presently he invited Tom to visit the lady-bird kingdom; but Tom declined, as he wished never again to act contrary to his Godmother's instructions and make an independent excursion into the great world.
He was not at all afraid of the pain or the torture, for he knew that if he did not cry out, the great bird would fly into the castle bearing the princess he had set free.
I am Seven Spot from the lady-bird kingdom on the forest pool.
The bird ran out a little way from the roof and called "Cuckoo, cuckoo".
Tom sprang from the bell to the bird and cried out victoriously.
But the lady-bird coming to him said, "Good morning Little Tom.
Rolling in the dust in front of the Godmother's hut, Tom saw the great bird sitting on a shrub close to the fence.
Then the bird was taken down into the cellar by three of them and stripped of its feathers.
The little brown bird still industriously piped the hour; but his appearance no longer brought the same warm thrill of happiness.
He had known them when the great bird of the downs was not a mere tradition, and though he owned conscientiously to never having beheld the bird, a certain mystery of holiness hung about the region where the bird had been in his time.
Henry did not look up to see the bird and the little man; for he wanted to be out in the garden at play with his sister, instead of trying to write a theme on the "Flight of Time.
The bird would kiss its master on the face, tweak his hair, and if one said "Poor old fellow!
The little Duchess is a wild bird caged in the strangely twisted wirework of artificial modes and forms.
Next evening Dr Bird again dined with Browning, who expressed confident satisfaction as to his state of health, and held out his wrist that his words might be confirmed by the regularity and vigour of his pulse.
But the little girl was busy pointing to where a small brown bird pecked fruitlessly in the dust.
Mother tended every young bird she raised with the greatest care.
As each hour comes around, a little bird comes outside the case.
It is great fun to watch for the little birdand hear its soft notes.
Perhaps you wonder what makes the bird come out at just the right time.
The caverns answer back to bird and beast--no more to savage war-whoop, or bursting shell.
I believe this little chap kept that bird for a pal," he told himself.
Then, too, some lone trapper may have carried that bird a thousand miles into the wilderness with the intention of using him in case of distress.
Graceful as the bird itself, the plane sank lower and lower, went bump, bump, bump three times, and glided away on an unmarked field of glistening snow.
I think," Curlie added after further thought, "that we'll make a copy of it and send the bird on his way.
Other Devil Bird plenty marks," the Voice went on.
A moment later the great bird rose with a graceful glide and soared toward the clouds.
But, like some bird lighting on a limb, she tilted twice, then shot away on an even keel.
A simple thing in the beginning it was too--only a bird in flight.
The money was to be attached to the bird's leg and the bird was to be freed.
And such a stillness as there was, until some littlebird began his faint, melodious song.
With consummate skill he brought the great bird to rest exactly opposite three steel drums resting on a high bank at the lake's edge.
Fortunately the course taken by the bird was almost the same as that he must follow to reach his next stopping place, Fort McMurray, the headquarters of steel.
It is the Kingdom of the bird and the flower and the horse and the motor-car and the motion-picture house and the office and the theatre and the ballroom and the school and the college and everything else that man has evolved for himself.
He who delights in the grace of a bird or the colour of a flower must delight in a man in proportion to a man's higher place in the creative scale.
Whiting as the companion of Mr. Bird on his return to Syria.
Bird and Goodell in 1823, that their brethren advised them to make Beirût the centre of their operations.
I had hardly been preaching in Arabic a year, when Mr. Bird left for America.
Mr. Bird returned to Beirût on the 22d of December, and was received by his Maronite acquaintances with unwonted cordiality.
But his thoughts were drawn to the subject of religion, and finding nothing in which he could take delight, he returned to Beirût, and engaged himself to Mr. Bird for a year.
In 1835, Mr. Bird was compelled, by the declining health of his wife, to visit Smyrna.
Before Mr. Bird could engage in it, Mr. Fisk was called away by death.
Mrs. Dodge gathered a school of girls there, and Mr. Bird had ten or fifteen Druzes present at his Arabic preaching every Sabbath, and among them the young sheiks of the village, with their servants.
Goodell and Bird gave more or less time, with the help of their native assistants, to preparing useful works in the native languages.
Some winged thing, either a bird or a bat, flapped against the walls and ceiling in the gloom.
Cypresses and arbor-vitae predominated in the groups of trees in the garden, where the song of a bird was never heard.
No cry of an animal, no flight of a birdcould be heard or perceived; and a strange choking smell, as if of sulphur, seemed to lie oppressively over land and sea, and to check respiration.
As a bird thou canst not wander From thy nest to circle homeward, Canst not fall and die like leaflets, As the sparks thou canst not perish, Like the smoke thou canst not vanish.
Flinders also saw from three to five hundred black swans on the lee side of one point; and so tame were they that, as the Norfolk passed through the midst of them, one incautious bird was caught by the neck.
The wings of the bird are of great length and strength, giving to it wonderful speed and power of flight.
He recorded what he saw of birdand animal with the same care as he noted nautical facts.
Starvation stared them in the face, when it was discovered that Mount Pitt was honeycombed with mutton-bird burrows.
An excellent account of the habits of the birdis given in Campbell's Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds.
The spotless plumage of the bird against the red of the glove was wondrously fair to see, and wondrously fair was the lady as she carried the falcon against her breast.
She turned from him now, and bent her regard upon the jess of her falcon, as if she were making sure that it were secure, as the bird rested upon her wrist after having struck down a brace of ducks.
No bird upward sailing On glad wing prevailing, More jocund is hailing The gay, laughing morn.
She knew well that he watched her as a fowler might watch a bird that is fluttering ever nearer the snare; and every moment it became harder for her to maintain her calm.
I am inclined to think that the bird is yours, but have nothing but what I might term the synthetic process of reasoning for arriving at this conclusion.
DEAR FRED,--I am sorry you should be so upset by the loss of a bird that must have been a cause of considerable embarrassment to you at times, that is if the bird which at present conducts our menage is yours.
I do not know why you should have inferred that the bird at your place belongs to me, unless you had already heard that mine is missing, in which case I should have thought the proper course would have been to return it.
If you have lost anything of a parroty nature, and will write me a description of it, I will see whether it tallies with the bird in whose possession we are.
I need not give you a fuller description of it; you know perfectly well the bird is mine, and if you do not return it at once I shall take legal steps for the recovery of my property.
But I am not vindictive, so return the bird to a more fitting milieu.
I shall be obliged by your giving the bird to the bearer of this note.
Unless thebird is back in my possession before the 29th inst.
In a general way the birdhere tallies with your description.
He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the second bird will receive the plaudits of the people.
He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the third bird will be worshipped by the mob.
He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the first bird will not be listened to for ages to come.
BROWN In Venice the pigeons do not allow you to forget them, even if one desired to forget a bird that is so intimately connected with the city and with a great ceremony of that ancient republic which has passed away.
There is a certain fitness in the fact that the dove should be the sacred bird of the sea city.
So have I seen a wildflower's fragrant head Sung to and sung to by a longing bird; And at the last, albeit the bird lay dead, No blossom wilted, for it had not heard.
No bird sings half so airy, No bird of dusk or dawn, Thou masking King of Faery!
Then turned and fled into the night, While overhead once more I heard That laughter, like some demon bird Wailing in darkness.
Many a stone And gnarly root, gray-mossed, made wild our way: And many a bird the glimmering light along Showered the golden bubbles of its song.
