The bulbul of Iran also attends in the train; and the affinity of this latter bird to the species of pigeons, convinced the Greeks that they had really hit off the interpretation of the word Pheelea!
A little red-cheeked bulbul fluttered from its nest high overhead on the summit of the crumbling walls, and he watched its flight through the oblique bars of alternate light and shadow with a curious anxiety.
The Banjara, anxious to see the finish of the beast that had slain his cow, worked his way along the grass patch, watching the bulbul and Finnerty's howdah, which just showed above the canes.
The bulbul eyed this performance thoughtfully; a tiger lying down for a sleep was something not to waste time over.
After Mr. Bulbul had gone the lady called Jean Malin to her.
Whenever Mr. Bulbul came to the house, which was almost every day, the bull disappeared from the pasture, and whenever the bull was in the pasture there was nothing to be seen of the gentleman.
Mr. Bulbul walked away in the direction of the lady's house, and after he had gone Jean Malin ran home by another way.
Dear Mistress, Mr. Bulbul is not a man at all, but that bull that you sometimes see over in the pasture.
The fine Mr. Bulbul bellowed aloud and jumped up, smashing his chair and knocking the tray with all the plates and glasses and everything out of Jean Malin's hands.
At once the bull became a man, and the man was the very Mr. Bulbul who came to visit Jean's mistress.
It would insist on using my pen as a perch, and as one's handwriting is not improved by an excitable bulbul hopping up and down the penholder, I was obliged to shut the bird up in a cage when I wanted to write.
The second is like unto the first, "every bulbul for itself.
The Punjab bulbul is known as Molpastes intermedius, while the Madras bird is called M.
There is the Bengal red-whiskered bulbul (Otocompsa emeria), which is distinguishable from the southern variety (O.
The bulbul used to resent this, and did not hesitate to tell me so.
This, of course, leads to a fight, for a hungry bulbul is an angry bulbul.
There, no doubt, they tread on rugs from Teheran and are diverted by the bulbul and play upon the dulcimer and feed upon sweetmeats.
By that time the occupant of the monogamistic harem would be in dreamland, the bulbul silenced and the hour propitious for slumber.
Don't you remember the grand Oriental ballet of the "Bulbul and the Peri?
Also a poet, who calls himself the Bulbul of the Deccan, called with a complimentary ode in the Nizam’s honour in English and Persian.
As if in hymeneal sympathy with love's delicious union, the bulbul poured forth a stream of soul-stirring song, the sweet cadence calling forth responsive notes from the thick of sylvan recesses.
I never heard the bulbul sing so sad, so sweet, so prophetic; ah!
The sweet song of the bulbul and other summer birds, with the buzzing of the honey-bee, are the familiar sounds to which we are from our infancy accustomed.
I was quite at a loss because I had never heard of the firm of Strong, Bulbul & Co.
And from her my thoughts wander to my companion who is snoring in the corner in a way that would make all the ventilators of Strong, Bulbul & Co.
Then you will not forget to explore the establishment of Strong, Bulbul & Co.
Smack them on the jaw, in order that Strong, Bulbul & Co.
It is to be hoped I shall know before we get to Pekin what it is that Strong, Bulbul & Co.
And although I knew that he traveled for Strong, Bulbul & Co.
To listen to their representative, it would appear that Strong, Bulbul & Co.
That is not fair, for I agree to thirty per cent, from Strong, Bulbul & Co.
Ephrinell seems to be asleep, and that stops my knowing what it is that Strong, Bulbul & Co.
When a man represents the firm of Strong, Bulbul & Co.
The bulbul is among the feathered pets now in demand in this country.
If Bulbul is our Lion, Young Oriel may be described as The Dove of our colony.
Clarence Bulbul claps hands for him to bring the pipes and coffee.
Lady Betty Bulbul is very fond of Clara; and Tom Bulbul, who took George's message to Heeltap, is always hanging about the studio.
The Batan red-eared bulbul is very abundant in Batan Island where it was found breeding in May and June.
The Siquijor bulbul is found about low bushes in open fields, often in flocks.
The guava bulbul is one of the commonest of Philippine birds; it is called 'cul-cul' by the natives.
The rufous-throated bulbul is common in Mindanao and Basilan; it is found along edges of forest, in second growth, and in guava bushes.
The black-headed bulbul is fairly common in Palawan.
Everett's yellow bulbulis a deep-woods bird, and a hill bird as well.
The wattled bulbul is fairly common about fruit trees in the forest and in open fields.
Haynald's yellow bulbul is extremely abundant in Sulu and Tawi Tawi.
The ashy-headed bulbul occurs in the open, but is far more abundant in the woods.
Nest of the bulbul type, lined with fine wiry grasses and fiber.
This bulbulis very common and feeds always in the woods, so far as our observation goes.
For this purpose the Bulbul is taken from the nest as soon as the sex is distinguishable by the tufted crown; and secured by a string, is taught to fly from hand to hand of its keeper.
The Persians," according to Zakary ben Mohamed al Caswini, "say the bulbulhas a passion for the rose, and laments and cries when he sees it pulled.
The yellow-browed bulbul (Iole icteria) demands notice in passing, because it is common on the minor ranges.
The two types of bulbul stand to one another in much the same relationship as does the honest Breton peasant to the inhabitant of the Quartier Latin in Paris.
Be this as it may, the Madras red-vented bulbul is not the common bulbul of the Nilgiris.
The only other species of bulbul commonly seen in the hills is a very different bird.
The Molpastes bulbul is a bird about half as big again as the sparrow, but with a longer tail.
The commonbulbul of the Himalayas is the white-cheeked species (Molpastes leucogenys).
The hen, and the cock, when he is quite young, look rather like specimens of the bulbul family, being rich chestnut-hued birds with the head and crest metallic bluish black.
The tinkling sounds of this bulbul form the dominant notes of the bird chorus.
A very different bird is the southern or Nilgiri blackbulbul (Hypsipetes ganeesa).
At its approach the incubating bulbul had made a great commotion which attracted the notice of the servants.
Two species of bulbul are abundant in Lahore: this one and the Punjab red-vented bulbul (Molpastes intermedius).
Some predaceous creature, possibly a cat or a mongoose, had seized the sitting bulbul in the night.
On my return the eggs were lying broken on the ground, and I was not able to discover whether the fluttering bulbul or the servants striking the snake had caused their downfall.
Eventually bulbul A summoned sufficient courage to visit the nest, and must have been highly gratified to find the two youngsters and the egg safe.
This year (1912) sixbulbul tragedies have occurred in my garden, and the year is yet young.
The nest of the bulbul is a shallow cup, formed of bast, roots, twigs, and grass, loosely worked together.
I saw a bulbul bring a large insect with gauzy wings to a six-day-old nestling.
Now, as a matter of fact, the Indian bulbul has nothing whatever to do with the nightingale.
When a bulbul brings material to the nest, it drops this on to what has already been collected, sits on it, and proceeds to arrange it with its feet, which work so vigorously as to shake the whole plant in which the nest is placed.
When at last it did succeed in swallowing it, the young bulbul fell back with neck stretched out and appeared to be in a thoroughly exhausted condition.
Had I not seen the bulbul go into the bush carrying a leaf, I should not have suspected that these few things were the beginning of a nest, for they had no semblance of one.
The crest invariably assumes this attitude when the bulbul is incubating, or brooding, or feeding its young.
Then he went on to say that his Bulbul scholarship had stood him in good service, and his little Turkish had been turned to account.
The obedient bulbul at once flew off to find some, but though he flew for miles, peeping into every garden by the way, he could not discover a single green pepper.
The bulbul alighted in the middle of the garden, and, lo!
I shall be but one of a thousand, and spend a life like a bulbul in a golden cage.
Except for the occasional throbbing notes of a bulbul in the distance, no sound of any kind fell upon their ears for a time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bulbul" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canary; cuckoo; lark; mockingbird; songster; thrush; warbler
