It was indeed mine by the same inalienable right that it belonged to the crows that flew across it, or to the partridges that nested in its coverts, or the woodchucks that lived in its walls, or the squirrels in its chestnut trees.
One family in Michigan had a pair of robins whonested close to the house for fourteen years.
A friend told me a few days ago of a family of wood thrushes who nested last summer in the yard of her house in the city of Orange, N.
They had no doubt always nested in a cave, or a hole in a tree.
A few come to us who have nested farther north, and some who have been with us all summer stay over winter too.
And from there I rose up and reached the Feather-Nested Doctor, Quotaveech, and I spoke to him this way: 'And you belong here.
Not a human sound anywhere; nor any stir of life, but the soft ceaseless kuru-kooing doves, that nested and mated in those dusky inner rooms, where Queens had mated with Kings.
Every season, I was told, this flycatcher nested in the same hollow; and every season the hollow was previously nested in by a tufted titmouse.
Although they often--not always--nested so close together, the nests were in no way alike.
Then we found them on an island on which Captain Sprinkle told us he had never before found them, although both skimmers and gulls had always nested on it.
The kettle stood next, half filled with salted water, in which nestled the potatoes like so many nested eggs.
Like sunbeams in a cloudlet nested Thy locks in knightly casque are rested: O'er which bend four milky plumes Like the gentle lilly's blooms Springing from a costly vase.
Quite different was the case of Sarah Newbolt, once more back in her poor shelter, nested in bramble and clambering vine.
They are nested about on the hills, and crowded with small and lovely rural villas more like the neighbourhood of Boston than anything I have seen in Europe.
Useless for food, the birds had escaped the demands of the hunter, and thousands nested in security along our beaches.
I have read this first sentence over, and think it savours rather; however an inward innocence is like a nested dove, as the old song says.
They formerly nested in remote swamps along the whole Gulf coast, but are now confined chiefly to the Everglades in Florida.
This is a southern species which, after having nested on islands in the far south during our winter, comes north and appears off the Pacific coast of the United States during the summer.
She began to tremble as she neared it, for though she did not, like the Squire, torture her mind with what might or might not come to pass, care had nested in her heart.
The moonless night; like a dark bird, had nested in the garden; the sighing of the lilac bushes was the only sound.
The year 1868 was the last year in which great numbers of passenger pigeons nested in that State.
When a crow nested in our woods, near the Beaver Pond, we were greatly pleased; but with the feeding of the first brood, the crows began to carry off ducklings from the wild-fowl pond.
Near Port Jervis, last year a wild ruffed grouse nested and reared a large brood in the garden of Mr. W.
Three pairs nested in a young orchard behind my house and adjacent to my garden.
In 1900 we planted a young pine tree in front of our temporary office building, within six feet of a main walk; and at once a pair of robins nested in it and reared young there.
Strangely enough these birds which nested and slept in hollow trees before the coming of the white men, were among the first to take advantage of his presence.
The canoes can be purchased in two sizes and nested for transportation, an arrangement which would save considerable expense in freight bills.
An aluminum (for lightness) cooking outfit, or the Dutch oven mentioned, with three or four kettles nested within, a coffee pot or a teapot would suffice.
The bushes where I nested are all cut down, They are felling the tall trees one by one, And my mate is dead and gone, In the winter she died and left me lone.
The jays had a nest in a crab apple tree, a cat birdnested in a vine close to the house, a robin came familiarly to one of the veranda pillars in front of the house and built her solid nest of mud and grass.
It was formerly supposed that this gull nested entirely north of the United States, but later investigations have shown that it nests regularly in northern Minnesota and even as far south as the Saint Clair Flats near Detroit, Mich.
The jay nested on the grounds, but that did not seem to prevent other birds from coming in great numbers and variety and making their little homes there also.
The dainty cradle-song was sung; And bore its balm to restless ears, As one by one the nested young Slept in their willows and their tears.
Sweet all the day O’erflowed with music every woodland way; And sweet the jargonings of nested bird, When light the listless wind the forest stirred.
How soothed, when in thick bower enclosed, They, like a nested pair, reposed!
E] The eagle nested in Borrowdale as late as 1785.
Science says that the tellurium crystals are in the porphyry dykes and that these dykes lie in syncline, perhaps two or three, nestedone under the other.
Its nub was a porphyry cap, the rest of it was composed of layers of porphyry and valueless rock dipping downward, nested like saucers in the synclinal layers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nested" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
