Bullfinch (in a money-getting lane in the City the curious reader will see the Co.
But getting was a point not easily arrived at; for if Bullfinch loved one thing more than another, it was himself.
The town residence of Theophilus Bullfinch was in one of the squares in the neighbourhood of the Museum.
Theophilus Bullfinch was a bachelor, middle-aged, and sufficiently stout to look respectable.
Bullfinch opened his eyes still wider, and echoed "Board and lodging!
All day long he worked at his wooden shoes without a word, perhaps without a thought, happy in his little friend thebullfinch on whom were centred all the emotions of his existence.
The maker of wooden shoes and the bullfinch have remained very much alive in my memory--the end of the episode has escaped it.
In his natural state the bullfinch prefers the most secluded and silent spot in the forest.
Jerry, as he softly tickled the head of the bullfinch he had retained as a gift for Miss Theedory out of the first and best batch.
And in his own words Jerry related, while his mother knitted in the firelight, how a great musician had, as a youth, trained a young bullfinch to pipe 'God save the King.
Indeed, Jerry Blunt is engaged in training a young bullfinch as a wedding-present, though nobody can induce him to say for whom.
Away flew every astounded bullfinch as fast as wings could move, in such alarm and confusion as bullfinches could feel and they only can venture to describe.
It was in this eager and suspended moment that the piping bullfinch set up the old country-dance of "Nancy Dawson.
The bullfinch lazily filled in the interval with an air from Iphigenie en Tauride.
The bullfinchrecommenced its air from Iphigenie en Tauride.
Egbert recognised it immediately, because it was the only air the bullfinch whistled, and he had come to them with the reputation for whistling it.
Judge Bullfinch tried to make a fine speech, but the birds were too excited to listen to his words, and he soon found himself without an audience.
We selected a jury of twelve birds, and Judge Bullfinch took his seat on a bough, and then the trial began.
But I have not lived in the forest all my life without learning something, and I whispered a plan to Judge Bullfinch that met with his approval.
Judge Bullfinch arrived with his head bandaged with soft feathers, for he had met the rook policeman and, when he remonstrated, had been severely pounded by the wicked bird's club.
Last summer, when the boulder seemed to be dripping with large juicy crimson honeysuckle berries, I watched a big bullfinch gorging to his heart’s content, his red waistcoat mingling well with the red of the berries.
Mr. and Mrs. Bullfinch invariably come together, unless she is detained at home with the family.
Mrs. Bullfinch was also there, in her less obtrusive grey and browny-black dress, and she had a couple of youngsters too.
He left a bullfinch with Mrs. Smith, who gave it to Virginia, without telling to whom it had belonged, lest her grandmother might be displeased.
Now the bullfinch was traced home to the ci-devant Virginia St. Pierre, the present Miss Hartley.
To my shame be it spoken; my curiosity got the better of me, and I went---but only on account of the bullfinch in the eyes of the world.
Says the gentleman, as he came into the shop, fixing his eyes on the bullfinch as if they would have come fairly out of his head, 'How did that bird come here?
The bullfinch was at this time piping away at a fine rate, and, as luck would have it, that very remarkable strange tune that I mentioned to you.
The Bullfinch now began to overwhelm the bailiff with all sorts of stories; and when Besserdich succeeded in getting in a word, and asked whether they had not seen the Frenchman, the Bullfinch said no, and his wife also said, no.
But the children were far too much taken up by the bullfinch to think of anything else, for the bird took courage to pipe a little to Dick's whistling, and then they discovered that one of his tunes was "The British Grenadiers.
It stands isolated, and is an extraordinary instance of discontinuous distribution, as no Bullfinch inhabits either Madeira or the Canary Islands.
From the hands of that unjust steward she received two empty bird-cages, together with a detailed account of the manner in which the occupants had effected their escape, and a bullfinch that seemed to be suffering from torpid liver.
It'll be the death of the little bullfinch in the shop, that draws his own water.
A man who never jumps at all can by no possibility be "pounded," whereas the easiest and safest of gaps into an inclosure may mean a bullfinch with two ditches at the other end.
For example, during the age of the Forest Beds in Europe, a stray bullfinch was driven out to sea by a violent storm, and perched at last on a bush at Fayal.
I am sorry to hear that the painted bullfinch turns out to be a female; though she has done us a good turn in exhibiting her jealousy, of which I had no idea.
Colouring or staining the fine red breast of a bullfinch with some innocuous matter into a dingy tint would be an analogous case, and then putting him and ordinary males with a female.
A bullfinch which had been taught to pipe a German waltz.
The Bullfinch heard of it, and he was ridiculously angry!
And now a fourth time has this hen bullfinch made a dash at the blue-tit.
It takes about a year for a bullfinch to learn a tune.
When the bullfinch learns well, he is praised and petted, and this he seems to enjoy very much.
Away flew every astonished bullfinch as fast as wings could move, in confusion and alarm.
It was in this eager and suspended moment that the piping bullfinch set up the old country dance-tune of "Nancy Dawson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bullfinch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
