Indeed, seen walking at a distance, he looks like our Bobolink expanded to the size of a large hen-hawk.
And our bobolink would be as easily acclimatised in Europe.
One spring he bought a bobolink from some boys who had trapped it; and he hung its cage in the sun outside his cabin.
Closely behind, the Gulf's warm breezes follow This northern hurricane, And, borne thereon, the bobolink and swallow Shall visit us again.
If the shoe fits, put it on, everybody," Bobolink remarked stoutly.
Bobolink observed, as though the subject interested him considerably.
We're going to be away somewhere on a midwinter hike immediately after Christmas, sir," Bobolink thought it best to explain.
Why, the fact of the matter is, Bobolinkhas a new girl to take to barn dances and all that this winter," said Spider, boldly.
Bobolink bubbled over as he reached for his second helping, meanwhile keeping a wary eye on the boy who had warned them as to his enormous capacity for food.
Bobolink burst out with this exclamation the very minute he passed hastily in at the cabin door.
As Bobolink sang out, the worst was yet to come when they made the Radway, and had to ascend against a head wind that would necessitate skilful tacking to avoid an overturn.
Bobolink said to his chum nearest him; "two of the Lawson crowd here, dodging about and grinning as if they thought it a picnic?
Bobolink continued to shake his head pugnaciously as he walked along the pavement.
In early summer the bobolink perches there, then tiptoes, or tip-wings, away to the meadows below, pouring out his ecstatic song.
One thinks of the bobolink as singing almost habitually on the wing.
Bobolink scowled, and became as ugly as ever again.
Martin had almost forgotten the warning Bobolink had given him, but, even if he had quite forgotten it, nothing would have induced him to speak loudly in such a stillness as that.
The spirit of the bobolink ought to exorcise the savage out of us.
But I do know that, in the thirty and three years since Mr. Burroughs asked the question, Bobolink has lost none of his nimbleness, nor forgotten one bubbling, tinkling note of his song.
Where did Bobolink disport himself before there were meadows in the North and rice-fields in the South?
He arrives early in May, and is first heard to sing during some part of the second week of that month, when the sons of the Bobolink commences.
The bobolink perched himself on the top of that new flagpole, and perhaps his trilled notes were a co-mingling of praise and good wishes.
It was not easy to gather them together for the embarkation, but Miss Brooks was so grateful and happy; every Bobolink felt it her special duty to help the children get aboard the old-fashioned steamer.
The bobolink was quite disconcerted by this outburst, but after jumping about nervously from twig to twig for a while, he began again: "What a beautiful meadow that is which you can see from your south window!
And a waggish old squirrel, who had heard the conversation, asked the bobolink how he could expect any one to like beautiful things who looked out of such great staring eyes.
At present a shower had just passed and the bobolink may have thought that another dawn had come; or perhaps he saw the maiden.
The bobolink listened and then flew on to listen again, while still the girl poured out her breathless music, a mad volley of soaring melody; it seemed fairly to lift her from her feet, and she was half dancing as she went.
She did not see him, for her eyes were lifted to a littlebobolink that had come flying down the wind.
Even as Helen spoke she looked up, and there was the bobolinkflying over her head and pouring out his song; also the merry breeze was dancing over the meadows, and everything about her was in motion.
When she saw her friend from the distance she waved her hand to him and went to meet him, laughing, "I am going to take you out to see my stream and my bobolink to-day.
Paul, Jack, Bobolink and Jud remained until they saw the rough water away down near the southern shore of the lake, and understood that the first squall must be swooping upon them.
Breakfast was presently under way, and nobody found any fault when Bobolink announced that he meant to instruct Nat Smith and another boy just how to go about making those delicious flapjacks for which he himself had become famous.
Bobolink in the line of practical joking, he suspected that the other might be up to some of his old tricks.
Jack and Bobolink hastened to follow his example, only too well pleased to be selected to accompany the leader.
The other three coming up, Jack having joined Bobolink and Tom, found the scout master still on his hands and knees.
Bobolink asked, his voice quivering, perhaps with excitement, or it might be under stress of alarm; for it was not the nicest thing in the world to be lying there helpless with a hungry panther crouching above.
It was, of course, Bobolink who gave utterance to this characteristic exclamation.
Bobolink retorted, being one of the kind who can make the best of a bad bargain when necessary.
Paul, wishing to figure on the time that might have elapsed since Bobolink left his post.
Bobolink had stooped, and picked something from the ground.
By now even the fire-eating Bobolink was ready to cry quits, and back down; nor did he seem at all ashamed to admit the fact that he was afraid.
Would even this cause one of the four scouts to "take water," as Bobolink called it, and make the sign that he had had enough?
Then Bobolink burst out with: "And you were right, Paul, when you said that the chances were the island was close to the north side of the lake, so animals could swim across.
For a full minute they sat there and stared; while Bobolink remembered the far-away black object that, at the time, he had thought to be a buzzard.
He or she who is swelled full of conjecture whenever anybody commits an innocent indiscretion, as an owl blinks and ruffles up its feathers when the bobolink sings.
A bobolink left the bloom of a tree To tell her tale of whimsical glee; The moon dropped a pearl to wear in her breast; Dawn wove her a cloak of silvery mist.
He sang as sweetly to them as he does to us, and he too was a discoverer and a pioneer, finding and occupying meadows full of sunshine where had only been the continual shade of the forest, where no bobolink had ever been before.
The songless bobolink has forsaken the shorn meadow.
The bobolink has lost, with his pied coat, the merry lilt that tinkled so continually over the buttercups and daisies of the June meadows; rarely the song sparrow utters the trill that cheered us in the doubtful days of early spring.
At any rate, when I reached the place there was no sign of any bobolink near me.
Finally through my half-shut eyes I saw Mrs. Bobolink come flying low over the tops of the waving grass.
The home of a bobolink is one of the best hidden of all of our common ground-builders.
With the Summer flew the robin, Flew the bobolink and blue-bird.
Lo my voice recalls the robin, Brings the bobolink and blue-bird, And the woods are full of music.
Why do you call the Bobolink a 'harlequin,' Uncle Roy?
Mrs. Bobolink finds a little hollow in the ground where the roots grow, and rounds up a nest from the grass stalks with finer grass tops inside.
My acquaintance with the bobolink was resumed a year later in the lovely summer home of a friend in the Black River Country, within sight of the Adirondack hills.
But when he had uttered his message he sank back into the grass, and I tore myself away from the bobolink meadow, and came home far richer and far happier than when I set out.
I gathered up my belongings and sauntered off toward home, musing, as I went, upon the bobolink family.
Not merely once did he honor me, but again and again without pausing, as if he intended to fill me as full of bobolinkrapture as he was himself.
The next week brought to the meadow what must seem from the bobolink point of view almost the end of the world.
Men and horses and great rattling machines, armed with sharp knives, which laid low every stem of grass and flower, and let the light of the sun in upon the haunts and the nests of the bobolink babies.
A bobolink sailed over my face, not three feet from it, singing his merriest, and then dropped into the grass behind me.
The quality of the music, too, was strikingly like bobolink notes, and the whole performance was exquisite.
Other birds may like to travel alone, but when jolly Mr. Bobolink and his quiet little wife come from the South, where they have spent the winter, they come with a large party of friends.
Don't you think Mr. and Mrs. Bobolink look happy in the picture?
Mr. and Mrs. Bobolink build their simple little nest of grasses in some field.
Mrs. Bobolink wears a dull dress, so she cannot be seen when she is sitting on the precious eggs.
And when Master Meadow Mouse bade them good-by Mrs. Bobolink said to him, "What a shame that Farmer Green should break up a happy home like ours!
You'd better move to Cedar Swamp with us," Mrs. Bobolink suggested.
The Bobolinkfamily were so upset by haying that they moved to Cedar Swamp at the very first clatter of the mowing machine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bobolink" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
