These nests are usually made of dried grasses and fine roots, but the chippingsparrow weaves horsehair with the grass and makes his nest very delicate and dainty.
The chipping sparrow's eggs are greenish-blue, speckled with dark brown.
Those that we know the best are the field sparrow, the song sparrow, and the chipping sparrow, often called the chippy.
Through rain and sleet they reached Chipping Barnet in due time on the third day's journey, and here they were to part from the merchant's wains.
Old Rayburn is always watching for them, and picking flowers, and chipping bits of stone.
In due time the place where Dan Rugg was working and directing the men, chipping out the rich lead ore, was reached, and he came out of the murky place.
And then, to crown the whole, there are the pneumatic tools, the chipping and riveting machines.
The greatest noise is made by those who are busily chipping at the benches; otherwise there is comparative quiet when we remember the tremendous din of the neighbouring workshops.
He even laid aside his customary caution, went chipping into the sumac, and caressed his mate so boisterously she gazed at him severely and gave his wing a savage pull to recall him to his sober senses.
He lifted his head when he came to the golden kernel, and chipping it in tiny specks, he tasted and approved with all the delight of an epicure in a delicious new dish.
And again, "The receipt of Chipping Norton's letters are still double the number of what Mr. Mackerness in his vouchers enters as sent from his stage.
If the object were used as a pestle the chipping of the ends is unusually great.
This reminds us of certain specimens found at Columbus and The Dalles, which have the same general shape, but are ground and polished, so that no signs of chipping remain on some of them.
The most numerous perhaps, were points of various sizes and shapes, made by chipping and flaking, for arrows, knives and spears.
Although most of the rocks were blackened outside, by chipping off the outer surface one found that they contained inside beautiful white marble or else greyish granite.
The patient is chipping with a hammer and chisel, and a piece flies off and strikes the globe.
Not infrequently the facial nerve is exposed or pressed upon in chipping away the outer wall of the external semicircular canal, as will be shown by sudden twitchings of the face.
William had met Mr. Morris several times of late chipping at rocks with a hammer, but did not expect to meet with him there, and could have dispensed with his presence.
Anon began a chipping and ringing of steel upon stone, that was, and was not, new to him.
Had Catesby an estate at Armcote, in Worcestershire, not far from Chipping Norton?
Two of them were at work upon arrow-heads, chipping them very slowly and carefully; and while Tig was watching, one man made an unlucky stroke and broke his arrow-head in two.
Goba was making a spear-head; he had laid it on a large stone between his knees and kept striking it sharply and delicately with a small stone which he held in his right hand, to finish chipping the edge and make it sharp.
And you might make some bows and arrows, and even have a try at chipping out flint arrow-heads.
Barber and Shawnee counties; Chipping Sparrows are not known to breed farther to the west, but records for north-central Kansas are likely to be found.
Grosso on the ladder kept on chipping round the plate, the crowd watching him critically.
So he borrowed a hammer and chisel, and ran nimbly up the ladder again and began chipping round the plate.
The eggs resemble, somewhat, large specimens of those of the Chipping Sparrow.
Eggs pale greenish blue with brown specks over the whole surface, thus being very different from those of the Chipping Sparrow (.
Nearest like that of the Chipping Sparrow, but easily distinguishable; a long, clear trill.
A simple ditty similar to that of the Chipping Sparrow.
For instance, a pair of adult Chipping Sparrows, standing on a branch by the sides of their four young, are engaged in pulling apart a large worm that was too large to be given whole.
They bear considerable resemblance to our common Chipping Sparrow, but are larger and have characteristic markings as noted above.
Our chipping and hammering and the heat of the radiator causing it to expand must have forced out the sepia, or whatever it is," said Young.
Yes," said Marable, pausing in his work of chipping away a portion of matrix.
There's a hard and interesting day ahead of us to-morrow, and I want to read Orling's new work on matrices before we begin chipping at the amber.
Skilled specialists were chipping away at matrices other artists were reconstructing, doing a thousand things necessary to the work.
But this continued chipping of the stone in order to produce a tool, implies a considerable mental advance upon the effort of mind necessary to construct a tool with one blow.
The southern, windward faces were on the whole smooth and rounded, but there was no definite polish, because the surface was partly attacked by the chipping and splitting action of frost.
Chipping this off was a most tedious piece of work, while in the process one's clothes became filled with ice.
The other face, as will be seen by the figure, has been fashioned by first roughly chipping the implement to a curved edge, by blows administered on the flatter face, and then neatly trimming this edge to a regular sweep by secondary chipping.
It is made from a flake, and the edge of the blade on the left in the figure is formed as usual by chipping from the flat face.
Monkman,[1977] like myself, regarded these instruments as punches or fabricators, used for chipping arrows and delicate flint weapons into shape.
The edges seem to be slightly worn away, and show, along the greater part of their extent, the minute chipping probably produced by scraping some |497| hard material.
The chipping out of celts and some other tools formed, not of flint, but of other hard rocks, must have been effected in the same manner.
The flints of what have been termed the “Plateau types” have their edges much more obtuse and rounded, and |644| their chipping and wear seem to me due to natural causes and not to human workmanship.
Another decayed town, once of more importance still, is Chipping Campden, four miles to the north-east of Broadway, in a corner of Gloucestershire.
Yet nobody did set up his statue, as should have been done on "Dover Hill" by Chipping Camden.
Upon one occasion a complaint was made to the Lord Protector that Juxon's hounds had followed the scent through Chipping Norton churchyard at the time of a puritanical assembly there.
As a result of his efforts, the hills above Chipping Camden were annually at Whitsuntide the scene of a revival of the mediaeval days of festivity and manly exercise.
Webster chipping in with a quaver in his voice, and the two marines and Griffiths bellowing these words behind and above us.
Crudely flaked implements of trap rock with cutting edges showing evidence of chipping and grinding were uncovered.
The most characteristic finds at Bonasila are the crudely flaked implements of stone, some of which show incipient chipping and grinding.
Many stones on the beach show signs of chipping or use.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chipping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
