The linnet in its mirth Was never half so blest as I with Mary Littlechild-- The rose of the creation, and the pink of all the earth, The flower of all the forest, and the best for being wild.
So off the three children set for Piper's Hole; Annet and Linnet with long strides, Matthew Henry trotting to keep up with them.
We will pay Piper's Hole a visit one of these days," she promised, "and perhaps Linnet will see a real mermaid and be convinced.
She turned for confirmation to Linnet and Matthew Henry, and they both nodded.
For Annet and Linnet merely looked puzzled; to them the book was a book, just as the hill upon which they sat was a hill, and they had never troubled their heads about such a thing as an author.
The words may seem inadequate, butLinnet understood them, and that they conveyed a question which she felt to be a poser.
Linnet stoutly maintained that this aunt of theirs, whom they had never set eyes on, must be a fairy herself--neither more nor less; and Annet had her doubts on this point.
Eagle had flown higher than all the rest, and had carriedLinnet on his back.
Who teaches the young chipper to trill, and the young linnet to warble?
The lark, linnetand nightingale to sing some say are best; Yet merrily sings little Robin, pretty Robin with the red breast.
Is the man who opens the door of its cage for the linnet impelled by selfish motives?
Gay and clear the linnet trills; Yet the skylark only, thrills Heaven and earth When he breasts the height, and fills Height and depth with song and mirth.
Maiden May sat in her bower, In her blush rose bower in flower, Where a linnet Made one bristling branch the tower For her nest and young ones in it.
There is not a cloud in the sky, the sun is sinking in a yellow haze, the robin and the linnet are singing beside me among the hawthorns, and down in the copse yonder a blackbird is fluting.
Where it breeds and rears its young, in Germany for example, a true sportsman would no more think of shooting a linnet than he would of killing and eating his daughter's dearest canary.
They were fond of linnet flesh, and were only too glad to have the assistance of an able-bodied man with a gun.
To tell the truth, after the first few days, they seemed a little tired of the linnet diet, and did not work with so much enthusiasm.
And in the sultry summer hours I shelter'd you with leaves and flowers; And in my leaves now shed and gone The linnet lodg'd and for us two Chaunted his pretty songs when you Had little voice or none.
The Sparrow, the Dove, The Linnetand Thrush say, 'I love and I love!
Naught was said about the Nightingale, Of the Blackbird not a word; Of Lark or Linnet no one thought, Or the Canary-bird.
Keep silence, noisy little one," Unto a Linnetsaid the Swan.
The Linnet and the Goldfinch too, Both sung as sweet as they could do.
To light them, the Linnet Fetched a Torch in a minute.
But little care had he for any thing Though up and down the beech the squirrel played, And from the copse the linnet 'gan to sing To its brown mate its sweetest serenade; Ah!
O Linnet in the wild-rose brake Strain for my Love thy melody, O Lark sing louder for love's sake, My gentle Lady passeth by.
For the moors, where the linnetwas trilling Its song on the old granite stone; Where the lark, the wild sky-lark, was filling Every breast with delight like its own!
Still more extraordinary was the case of a common house sparrow, which only chirps in a wild state, but which learnt the song of the linnet and goldfinch by being brought up near those birds.
It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world.
THE TWITE Green like the Linnetit appears to sight, And like the Linnet sings from morn till night.
It was the music of but one kind of bird, a small greenish yellow field finch, in size like the linnet though with a longer and slimmer body, and resembling a linnet too in its general habits.
In a country where there were no bird-catchers or human persecutors of small birds, the flocks of this finch, called Misto by the natives, were far larger than any linnet flocks ever seen in England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linnet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
