Sarah Dawsof Tamworth, and lived (18) at Nuneaton, England.
Here many times we used to stand at the mouth of the vast yawning cavern, in which the rope-makers are established, as the dusk gathered, and watch the noisy Daws come home to roost.
The Daws are great robbers of eggs, and as soon as the Auks or Kittiwakes chance to leave them unprotected the foraging birds beat along the cliffs and pounce upon them, carrying them off transfixed on their bill.
If Mr. Daws expected York and Scott to shake hands after the sermon, he was disappointed.
Shrive thyself, thou vile knave, for I mean that thou shalt hang this day, and that where three roads meet, so that all men shall see thee hang, for carrion crows and daws to peck at.
His aunt told him to carry it to the park, where he'd find other daws and settle down.
The daws would appear in a body of two or three hundred birds, but after a little while many of them would go on to their own villages further away, leaving about sixty to eighty birds belonging to the village.
No one had remembered that the daws had always occupied the same chimney; the old dame herself had seen them going in and out of it from her childhood, and her end was probably hastened by the disturbance made in cleaning it.
Perhaps we have too many daws in our village, but every year before lighting fires in the drawing and dining-rooms we have to call in a man with a pole to clear the flues out.
After that mother and father said they'd keep the daw a little longer, and then he could let it go at a distance where there were other daws about.
Talking with the rector of the neighbouring parish of Phillack one day on this subject, he said, "Don't imagine that the daws restrict themselves to the chimneys where fires are not lighted.
Now she is gone the daws here are in possession of it once more.
Here the daws congregate each evening in such numbers that a stranger to the district and to the local habits of the bird might imagine that all the cliff-breeding jackdaws in West Cornwall had come to roost at that spot.
And the crafty and dissembling Iago remarks that-- "When my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
The crows and dawsmight have called out another name for her, which we know better.
Over the ferry-house the crows and daws were flying with loud cries; one could hardly hear the church bells for their screaming.
The great white sea-mews flew over her head, and screamed as the crows and daws screamed at home in the garden of the manor house.
I sat with the Daws until half past ten, and saw the moon rise on the sea.
Master Dawswas a tall, gaunt, bony personage, of a stature exceeding six feet by nearly two inches: he presented a rigid outline of sharp angles from his cheek bones to his pointed and protuberant ankles.
Thus was the trial of Noble for another brief season deferred, and the malicious designs and interested hopes of the meddling and hypocritical Daws were for the present disappointed.
And watch out for Daws Dillon and his band of cut-throats.
That may be true, but this Daws Dillon has sent a similar message to the Commandant, and he has just been in here again and committed two wanton outrages night before last.
That dawg'll kill them sheep," said Daws Dillon aloud.
Chad Buford could fight it out withDaws and his gang, and he and Dan would fight it out with the men who won--no matter whether Yankees or guerillas.
Daws had shouted back: "That damned Turner dog has killed one o' our sheep.
Daws Dillon had come upon Jack leaping out of the pasture, and Jack had come home with his muzzle bloody.
Cousin Schillie, you promised to tell us the story of the jack-daws if we behaved well and obeyed our general.
So one day these two boys sat in the church-yard, and watched the jack-daws as they flew hither and thither and everywhere.
Says the little fellow, 'Them jack-daws must have a nest up there.
Her luckless infant, the last and fittest victim of the catastrophe of Ouglitch, swung on a gibbet on the road that runs towards Serpoukhov, a tender and pitiful morsel of gallows-fruit for the Volga dawsto peck at.
Not a storm-wind drove the falcons over the wide plain, nor hurried the flocks of daws to the glorious Don.
Patroclus was enraged by the death of his comrade, and sped through the front ranks as swiftly as a hawk that swoops down on a flock of daws or starlings.
Rooks sometimes dive and tumble in a frolicsome manner; crows and daws swagger in their walk; wood- peckers fly volatu undoso, opening and closing their wings at every stroke, and so are always rising or falling in curves.
Another very unlikely spot is made use of by daws as a place to breed in, and that is Stonehenge.
I know, in that manner; but I should never have suspected the daws of building in holes on the flat ground.
All the while to the cliff ledges overhead clamorous daws are drifting, passing to their nests, or settling on storm-worn pinnacles of rock.
Over the tree tops clamorous daws are passing, and the light wings of homeward-flying doves.
There is no sound save the lap of the tide along the shore, the stir of the wind in the long grass, the cry of a sea-gull wheeling over, or now and then the sharp clamour of a troop of daws that flutter round their harbour in the cliff.
From the cliffs that break the round swell of the hill a line of daws are streaming, eager, clamorous, on the wing for their hunting ground upon the moor.
At length he gained the object of his ambition, and transferred the horrified daws from their native home to his own warm but unnatural bosom, in which he buttoned them up tight.
For full five minutes Maggot wriggled and the daws gazed, and the anxious comrade above watched the vibrations and jerks of the part of the rope that was visible to him while he listened intently.
Till the rooks and daws whirled clamoring and screaming.
Closer it comes and closer, without a pause, and followed by fresh shouting, as a flock of daws follow an owl flying across the twilight, swelling again to irrepressible triumph as the expected potentate rushes past Melissa and her neighbors.
Mingling with these might be heard the uncanny hooting of owls and daws which the illumination had brought out of their nests in the cornice, and which the storm was now driving in again.
But before night he left them, and has never returned since; doubtless he had established relations with some of the wild daws on the outskirts of London.
There is no doubt that just as one daw attracts other daws so do these water-birds attract any of their wild relations which may be passing at night.
On one occasion Mr. Melford saw an advertisement of a hundred daws to be sold for trap-shooting, and to save them from so miserable a fate he at once purchased the lot and took them home.
There are also to be met with in London a few solitary vagrant daws which in most cases are probably birds escaped from captivity.
Of the many stories of their pet daws which they have told me, I will give one of a bird which was a particular favourite of Mrs. Melford's.
I have observed that on winter evenings these daws fly away from the gardens in a north-westerly direction: where their winter roosting-place is I have not discovered.
The daws are easily known by their lesser size and by their flight, for they use their wings three times to the rook's once.
Numbers of daws build in the knot-holes and hollows of the horse-chestnut trees in Bushey Park, and in the elms of the grounds of Hampton Court.
Great was my happiness to find them still there, as well as the daws and all the other feathered people who make this great building their home; even the kestrels were not wanting.
They got on badly, he said; the doves were early breeders, beginning in March, and were allowed to have the use of the holes until the daws wanted them at the end of April, when they forcibly ejected the young doves.
But in June, he said, when the daws brought off their young, the doves entered into possession once more, and were then permitted to rear their young in peace.
There were three there one morning, quarrelling with the dawsin the old way in the old place, halfway up the soaring spire.
Rooks and daws were congregating on the bushes, where their black figures served to intensify the red-gold tints of the foliage.
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