The Golden Oriole is mentioned in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as having occurred in Guernsey and Sark, but nothing more is said about the bird.
It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this.
Before the advent of civilization in this country, the oriole probably built a much deeper nest than it usually does at present.
A female oriole was one day observed very much preoccupied under a shed where the refuse from the horse stable was thrown.
An oriole swung from the topmost bough of a large oak pouring forth a flood of song.
From the topmost bough of a near-by mulberry tree an oriole poured forth a flood of melody.
All at once there arose a great commotion over my head; an oriole fled precipitately to another tree and stood there watching me, scolding his harshest, flirting his wings and jerking his body in great excitement.
The only one in the room whom the unlovely bird found it impossible to annoy was the oriole he saw in the looking-glass, and he never gave up trying to reduce even him to a proper state of meekness.
As it grew in volume from day to day, it proved to be totally different from the beautiful oriole strain of four or six notes, so familiar during the nesting season.
The oriole had a serious affection of one hind-toe, which swelled, turned white, and was evidently so painful to use that he alighted on the other foot, holding this one up.
On the 24th of April spring emotions began to work in the oriole family.
The oriole saw them in an instant, and was frantic to get out.
But, with true oriole persistence, in a moment she tried it again, going as before up the wires.
I could not decide positively whether she pierced the tubes, or availed herself of the labors of an oriole I had seen splitting them by inserting his beak and then opening it wide to enlarge the hole.
This is a typical bird of the air, as an oriole is of the trees and a sparrow of the ground.
A flash of fire through the air; a rich, high, whistled song floating in the wake of the feathered meteor: the Baltimore oriole cannot be mistaken.
But the song and color of the oriole particularly cheered and delighted him, and orange and black became the heraldic colors of the first lords proprietors of Maryland.
The Tropidorhynchus timorensis was as ubiquitous and as noisy as I had found it at Lombock; and the Sphaecothera viridis, a curious green oriole with bare red orbits, was a great acquisition.
Further, the Oriole suspends its basket-like nest by a twig at the extremity of a flexible branch, placing it thus beyond the reach of any prowling four-footed ravisher.
The nest of the Baltimore Oriole forms a perfect family pouch, which it suspends from the upper branches of a shrub or tree.
The calls of the hoopoe and nuthatch become less frequent as the month draws to a close; on the other hand, the melody of the oriole gains in strength.
Very occasionally the oriole utters a disconsolate-sounding tew; he is a truly tropical bird; it is only when the sun flames overhead out of a brazen sky that he emits his liquid notes.
The Indian oriole is not the only species which finds the climate of the United Provinces too severe for it in winter; the koel and the paradise flycatcher likewise desert us in the coldest months.
The oriole now utters its winter note tew, and that sound is heard only occasionally.
In the former province no other oriole replaces O.
The orioleis a timid bird and is glad to rear up its family under the aegis of so doughty a warrior as the Black Prince of the Birds.
The oriole lays from two to four white eggs spotted with dull red.
From the treetop come the sweet songs of the oriole and robin.
I recall now the oriole whose nest swung like a pendulum from the branch above, marking the passing of the summer day, and whose clear note struck more sweetly than the cuckoo clock the evening hour.
Here's Monsieur Oriole in love; it matters not if last year's love is not this year's.
I have left Monsieur de Saumaise writing chansons; and here's an oriole somewhere, singing his love songs.
Angélique drew in her robe and made room for him beside her, and was presently laughing and talking as free from care, apparently, as an oriole warbling on a summer spray.
The oriole has a sharp, dagger-like bill, and he seems to be learning rapidly how easily he can puncture fruit with it.
The oriole is peculiarly exempt from the dangers that beset most of our birds: its nest is all but impervious to the rain, and the squirrel, or the jay, or the crow cannot rob it without great difficulty.
The pelican is not a wader any more than a goose or a duck is, and the golden robin or oriole is not a bird of autumn.
Except at the fruit season, the Oriole is a very useful bird, and there is no kind of caterpillar that it will not pick up.
This Oriole comes annually to Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, but can only be called a visitor to our country, although nests have been found occasionally in some counties, especially in Kent.
The Indian oriole is a bird about the size of a starling.
I have never seen a cock oriole sitting on the nest.
I have never seen an oriole on the ground; its habits are strictly arboreal, but it does not seem to be at all particular about taking cover.
They are the Indian oriole (Oriolus kundoo) and the black-headed oriole (O.
The black-headed oriole may be distinguished by his black head, throat, and upper breast.
It would therefore appear that it is the oriole which elects to build near the king-crow.
The oriole is essentially a bird of the greenwood tree; if you would see him you should betake yourself to some well-irrigated orchard.
The oriole lays from two to four white eggs spotted with reddish brown.
The drongo builds earlier, for it is usually feeding its young while the oriole is incubating.
In places where there are mulberry trees the oriole shaves off narrow strips of the thin, pliable bark and uses these to support the nest.
If a man were ordered to erect a cradle up in a tree, he would, I imagine, construct it precisely as the oriole does its nest.
Now in my exile the oriole sings again In the dreary stillness of Hsün-yang town .
I had not yet risen When I heard an earlyoriole above the roof of my house.
Spring wind, The brightoriole of the water-flowing flight calls.
Away up in the elm tree before the house an oriole was blowing his little golden trumpet, his flashing coat rivalling the row of scarlet and golden tulips that bordered the garden path.
It was very hard to remember that one was nineteen and had never been anywhere nor attained anything, impossible to remember when the orchard was aflame in the sunrise, and the oriole was shouting from the elm tree.
As we came up, an oriolehad lighted on one of these pendant branches, and poured a flood of song over us as we passed down to the boat, which lay in a pretty cove ready to receive us.
While we sat thus in mute happiness, with nothing but the ripple of the boat to break the exquisite joy of our silence, the oriole began to sing again, and his mate answered back the song from across the lake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oriole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
