The house wren is a plucky little fellow, and as he likes the same kind of places the English sparrow wants, they often quarrel over a box or a nice snug hole.
So when the bird fathers and mothers come in the spring the first thing they do is to find good places and build nice cradles, for they are very fond of their little ones.
One spring a wren chose a nice bird-box on his place, and held it ready for the expected bride.
The stranger settled upon a hanging basket as nice to build in.
Her choice is for nice soft mullein leaves, which she pulls to pieces.
Another of these birds in Ohio, looking about for something nice and soft to line her nest, pitched upon a gentleman's hair.
He took pity on the hungry baby, and brought him a nice worm, which he took very gladly.
It is very pretty when fresh, but it soon gets soiled, and then it is not nice to look at or to handle.
At once the birds saw how nice it would be to have a roof over their heads.
The thing he liked best was butter, and when he was ready to wipe his bill after eating, as birds do, he found the coat-sleeve of the master soft and nice for the purpose.
It is said that Izaak Walton waved a hand obscurely toward the stream where he had made a catch, but could not be cornered to a nice direction, lest his pool be overrun.
Is it best to go roundabout, or forward with such a nice compound of innocence, boldness and modesty as shall satisfy the beast?
That's very nice and pretty, and makes you look ten times as handsome as ever.
Master's a dear, good gentleman, and always been nice and kind.
Of course; and a nice diabolical scheme they have hatched between them.
She proved to be nice enough to make Clive Reed lie wakeful still, with his mind running upon her pale, care-marked face, and begin to wonder who the man might be who troubled her rest.
I've been down and found out all about him and his nicelittle ways.
Such acts only prove him to be either more nice than wise, or less nice than foolish; unless we argue him to be, as many do, a secret secessionist.
And that word he carries about as a hen carries a boiled potato--something too big to swallow but nice to peck at.
Peter the Graybeard; 'you'll have a nice time of it when you get home.
We have also an old play entitled The nice wanton.
The historian Stowe, in recording an accident that happened to one Mary Breame in the year 1583, says that she "had beene accused by her husband to bee a nice woman of her body.
These would consequently be of greater importance to a nice player at the game of shovel-board, and induce him, especially if an opulent man, to procure them at a price far beyond their original value.
On the whole, we have here a proof that Shakspeare has not observed that nicediscrimination of character in his clowns for which some have given him credit.
It is a very nice room on the lower floor, with windows facing the south, and a separate entrance from the hall.
Men, overloaded with a large estate, May spill their treasure in a nice conceit: The rich may be polite; but, oh!
Absence of mind Brabantio turns to fame, Learns to mistake, nor knows his brother’s name; Has words and thoughts in nicedisorder set, And takes a memorandum to forget.
Not that she need be tied so very closely down; We might stand higher than some others, rather; A nice estate was left us by my father, A house and garden not far out of town.
Can a brave man do more or less Than with nice conscientiousness To exercise the calling he inherits?
Nice carpet, Bagshot," said my uncle, "nice and soft.
It may be very nice as you put it, but engagements end as well as begin," I insisted.
It is not nice to be mocked at even when you are in the right; a blatant cad is like a rhinoceros, and admits of no parleying, only since you must not kill him you are obliged to keep out of his way.
Do you take me for a dog, to be chained up and tantalized with nice bits, and hardly allowed to whine for them?
Miss Flaxman was a nice young lady," squeaked the Master.
You daren't even take your hat off till I make you; and now you see how nice it is to ride with your hat off.
I am very glad you are so happy with that nice Mr. Fitzalan of yours.
I was so flattered at being made up to by anyone or anything who seemed to tell me I was a nice person, that I let him go on and hunt for rats all over me, till at last his master interposed in beautiful English, and then we talked.
In case he got tired of it, what he had already written might make "a very nice finished sketch for a magazine.
But I tell you when I saw the books with the things he had said and wrote all brought together nice and neat, and one after another, I just took to that.
Lord Robert is such a beautiful shape, that pleased me too; the perfect lines of things always give me a nice emotion.
One was quite a nice old thing, and at the end began paying me compliments.
I told him I did not think it was at all nice or respectful of him to talk so--that I found such love revolting.
I do love that look, with a tiny waist and nice shoulders, and looking as if he were as lithe as a snake, and yet could break pokers in half like Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre.
I am going to see that he has a nice tea," and I looked back at Mr. Carruthers over my shoulder.
Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please.
I read in a book all about it; it is being nice looking and having nothing to live on, and getting a pleasant time out of life--and I intend to do that!
No; it was just said to say something nicewhen I was leaving, and he will be as horrid as Mr. Carruthers.
When one sees them half resting on his cheek it makes one feel it would be nice to put out the tip of one's finger and touch them.
I am not engaged to you, and cannot be until your family consent and are nice to me," I said.
Oh, if I had a big house, and were rich, I would have lovely parties, with all sorts of nice people, because I wanted to give them a good time and laugh myself.
But afterward they took to him, because they found that he was a nice man, and they asked him to come and eat with them.
Thus I parted from pretty San Francisco, and thenice Indians there, who had believed in me in spite of the wickedness the Mexicans had attributed to me.
However this might be, it was certain that the Mexicans of Eastern Sonora were a nice class of people.
It has two nice fat young, which the Tarahumares consider a great delicacy.
They were very nice and sweet, and he gave one to the Coyote and said, "Here, Brother Coyote, take this nice mouthful.
He came on a good horse, had a nice blanket over his shoulder, wore a sombrero and a good sabre.
When the weather is nice the fire may be made outside the house; but usually it is built inside on the ordinary fireplace.
They bring articles of silk and wool, wooden spoons, needles and thread, and donice embroidery work, and make or mend garments.
In the family of the good priest lived a little Indian orphan girl, about five years old, as nice and sweet a child as one might wish to see.
With the dances is always connected the sacrifice of an animal; the greater portion of the meat is eaten by the people themselves, who, beside, bring forth all kinds of nice food, the best they have.
Nice pictures, them," he added, sweeping a candle round.
Too bad the prodigal should resemble Satan Sanderson, the fashionable parish rector who waves his arms so gracefully in the pulpit, and preaches such nice little sermons!
You'd better go up to the sanatorium, Hugh, and give her a nice sweet kiss for it!
This nice little lady's come to live with us," said the young woman.
And you'll say we've been very good to you, won't you, and what a nice little lady we said you was?
Maggie thought it would make a very nice heaven to sit by the pool in that way, and never be scolded.
And the donkey'll carry you as nice as can be--you'll see.
We've got nothingnice for a lady to eat," said the old woman, in her coaxing tone.
I think Philip Wakem seems a nice boy, Tom," she said, when they went out of the study together into the garden.
