In the matter of size the gold, and fire-crested wrens agree, measuring but a trifle more than three and a half inches from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail!
The great-crested grebe has a conspicuous dark chestnut-red frill round his neck, which can be set out like an Elizabethan ruff, at will, though this is rarely done save in the courting season.
The beautiful golden crested wren, our smallest British migrant, is one of these.
The time shall come when Chanticleer shall wish His words unsaid, and hate his boasted bliss: The crested bird shall by experience know, Jove made not him his masterpiece below; 470 And learn the latter end of joy is woe.
This was accordingly done; and the turban-crested pillar that surmounts the slab now only serves to indicate the spot where rested for a few brief days the dishonoured head of Halet Effendi.
But now the aviator's keen eye, peering downwards through Sherbrand's binoculars, picked up something that had emerged with a sudden yeasty swirl among the white-crested waves.
Heckling the tomtit for defending the saffron-crested blackbird!
Native coke is found near Crested Butte, where a dyke of lava has intruded the coal strata.
The most important mines of bituminous coal are the Trinidad group and the mines at Crested Butte.
It kept down the sea, so that, instead of vicious, crested waves breaking inboard, there was little more than a long, sullen roll.
Regardless of the high-crested seas they steamed under forced draught.
SMITH'S first act was to put the helm hard down, but so fierce was the wind and so stunning the blows of the steep, crested waves that the yacht soon lost way.
In spite of the speed of the towed yacht crested waves repeatedly broke inboard, till the cockpit was frequently filled with water almost to the level of the seat on the port side.
Vain at the festive bar still lingered the people of Angels, Hearing afar in the woods the petulant pop of the pistol; Never again returned the Crested Jay Hawk of the mountains, Never again was seen the Bald-headed Snipe of the Valley.
While the boys were discussing what they should have for supper, a flock of these beautiful crested creatures came chattering across the open meadow in which was the camp.
The wind at my casement scream'd shrilly and loud, And the pale moon look'd in from her mantle of cloud; Old ocean was tossing in terrible might, And the black rolling billows were crested with light.
On, on they come--that white-crested phalanx of waves pouring and crowding upon each other in frantic chase!
Behind it rise the oak-crested hills of the Geissberg and the Kaiserstuhl; and in front, from the broad terrace of masonry, you can almost throw a stone upon the roofs of the city, so close do they lie beneath.
It is like a rusty helmet cleft in twain, but still crested with towering plumes!
Who are you with a white skin who speak like a crested sachem?
With a whirring, thunderous roar, a brood of crested grouse rose from the orchard as I ran on, startling me, almost unnerving me.
The cultivators went out to their daily work with the gun slung across their shoulders and the cutlass in their belt: the hills were crested with forts, and the mountain-passes were watched by scouts.
The illustration on page 496 represents a fine old male Crested Pelican (Pelecanus cristatus).
This fine bird measures nearly sixteen inches in length, and can be distinguished, not only by thecrested head, but by the reddish grey of the throat and chest, and the white tips of the wing and tail feathers.
Illustration: "From the mountain peaks crested with snow.
Far away in the mystical Westland, From the mountain peakscrested with snow, Glides Dolores, the river of sorrow, Dolores, the river of woe.
In the last attack He rode before us as the crested wave That leads the flood; and lo, our enemies Were broken like a dam of river-reeds.
As we climbed it was crested with a number of men with long guns.
You can scarce see her shores for ships; her inland groves are crested with towers and temples; and mists brooding at intervals over her far-extended plains, tell of towns and cities, their hum unheard by the gazer from her glorious hills.
But as we walked with him along the winding shores, how passing sweet the calm of both blue depths--how magnificent the white-crested waves tumbling beneath the black thunder-cloud!
The golden-crested wren is the smallest of British birds, its whole length being about 3(1/2) in.
A second and more local European species is the fire-crested wren, R.
A considerable number of African and Amazonian parrots, Bengal parroquets, four species of white and rose crested cockatoos, and two species of crimson lories, remained at large for many years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crested" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: peaked; plumed; tipped
