What would this master cracksman, this polished wielder of the oxy-acetylene blow-pipe, this expert in toxicology, microscopy and physics think of his callow outpourings!
Many a callow bee is buzzing helplessly in the path.
There was a great roar of laughter, for the clumsy leap resulted in two of the callow birds being jerked out heavily into the bottom of the ditch, and upon their recovery one was found to be dead.
But he was too late; the unfortunate callow songsters had been saved from a lingering death by starvation and imprisonment, the sides of the clay-lined nest being crushed in, and the breath out of the tender little bodies.
I had certainly no desire for marriage or a wife, because I had no thought in my callow head of either.
Still cold with a rage for which there was no sensible warrant, I walked slowly to where she was standing and fumbling with her lace apron, which the callow fool had torn.
The lizard leapt: the sunlight played: She heard the callow nestling lisp, And brimful meadow-runnels crisp.
Near it she draws, but entrance there A swelling sea denies; For hostile to her callow care, The cruel waters rise.
Two of the callow young she lays, Beyond the peril of the blaze; But while the last she rears, The other little ones distrest Crawl back within the burning nest, And aggravate her fears.
Gay nature smil'd, the prayer she blest, Selina softly sung; And felt delight of higher zest; She nurst the callow young.
Up the slow slope a team came bowing, Old Callowat his autumn ploughing, Old Callow stooped above the hales, Ploughing the stubble into wales.
It occurred to him that the Callow garden might, with fifty pounds, be filled with beehives from end to end.
Hazel hurried on, for it was already twilight, and though she was not afraid of the Callow and the fields at night, she was afraid of the high roads.
The wind stalked through the Callow, and the Callow moaned.
As Hazel set forth in the sharp, fresh morning, the Callow shone with radiant brown and silver, and no presage moved within it of the snow that would hurtle upon it from mountains of cloud all night.
Her new dress was forgotten; the wreath-frames would not fit under her arm, and caused a continual minor discomfort, and the Callow seemed to be half across the country.
Her one request was that she might be buried in the Callow under the yellow larch needles, and not in a churchyard.
Hazel saw nothing amiss with it, for though she had begun to grow accustomed to respectable middle-class meals, life at the Callow still seemed the homelier.
With that she took to her heels, the little fox after her, racing down the Callow in the cold level light till they came to the Woodus's cottage.
Chapter 10 The garden at the Callow was full of old, sad-coloured flowers that had lost all names but the country ones.
For the Callow was home, but the roads were the wide world.
Few forms of dissent are more irritating to a callow disputant than a suggestion that he thinks what he thinks and says what he says, merely because he is very young and inexperienced.
Now let my faithful students carry the fruit of this tree into the rock-ribbed [20] nests of the raven's callow brood.
Her young meanwhile Callow and cold, from their moss-woven nest Peep forth; they stretch their little eager throats Broad to the wind, and plead to the lone spray Their famish'd plaint importunately shrill.
His picture of the callow young in a bird's-nest is, I think, with some alteration, copied from Statius.
Did she imagine that he was a callow youth crossed in love?
No doubt the callow brood are much warmer and more comfortable in the nest than when they are turned out of it.
As one of the prophets puts the same idea, 'I taught Ephraim to go,' where the figure of the parent bird training its callow fledglings for flight is exchanged for that of the nurse teaching a child to walk.
My dear, every man at Palm Beach tags after her; rows of callow youths sit and gaze at her very footprints in the sand when she crosses the beach; she turns masculine heads to the verge of permanent dislocation.
It is quite true that young men coming to maturity during majestic periods of the world's history are not likely to have the callow brains and petty ideals which distinguished the average youth of peace.
I was still as callow as a boarding-school girl, but my saving grace was that I knew I did not know anything, that I never would know enough to write about life until I had seen more of it than was on exhibition in California.
Miss Mehitabel was indeed a beautiful woman, and she took a very deep and possibly maternal interest in callow youth.
Callow youth just from college is susceptible to many kinds of flattery, and at the age of adolescence the appeal which lovely woman makes to inexperience is irresistible.
My wings are growing, in the shape of a callowbank account.
One of the Rector's daughters came towards the inner drawing-room, followed by a callow ensign.
The two callow defenders of their country had sneaked out of the dining-room, and rejoined the ladies in the cosy countrified drawing-rooms.
I was callow and conceited, and I resolved to try the virtue of my nom de guerre.
Shelley the singer was a marvel of delicacy and power; but Shelley the thinker was at best a callow enthusiast.
He enjoyed an intimate friendship with the poet, not in his callow days, but during the last year or two of his life, when his intellect was mature, and his genius was pouring forth the great works that secure his immortality.
