Then out bespoke the wily parrot Unto fair May Collin: 'What have you done with false Sir John, That went with you yestreen?
The parrot asks what she has been doing, and is silenced with a bribe; and when the father demands why he was chatting so early, says he was calling to his mistress to take away the cat.
Haud your tongue, my pretty parrot, An I'se be kind to thee; For where ye got ae handfu o groats, My parrot shall get three.
The parrot he did say; 'O where have you been, my pretty Polly, All this long summer's day?
In a metal cage between the windows swings a gray parrotwith a red head, screaming monotonously, "Rascal!
Rohritz stands half smiling, half sympathetically, beside them, chalking his cue, while the parrot rattles at the bars of his cage and tries to out-shriek Freddy.
Valentina Mihailovna looked after him, sighed, walked up to a golden wire cage, on one side of which a green parrot was carefully holding on with its beak and claws.
Mariana turned to the cage and began stroking the parrot's neck with her finger; the parrot stretched towards her.
In the midst of their deliberations the parrot perched himself upon one of the poles of the tent, and pronounced distinctly "Victory and power be the lot of the khalif Abdulmumen, commander of the faithful.
Having trained a parrot and a lion, he assembled the chiefs in his tent, and urged upon them the necessity of naming a successor to their rising empire.
Above Memphis he was met by a fleet of excursion steamers and the sight of his flashing paddle as he approached them was the signal for the firing of a salute from a ten pound parrot gun on the deck of the General Pierson.
There, lying in his narrow house, flattened and prostrate under a load of earth, the poor ghost sees his widow wearing the gay feathers of the ring-neck parrot in her hair, and he knows that the time of her mourning for him is over.
It was covered by mats prettily fringed with coloured parrot feathers.
But, finding that theParrot Harbour mission refused to pay the passage money until the man-of-war arrived, he went into a towering rage and abused everybody.
The parrot laughed too, but still kept his back to her.
There was also a parrot in a large cage in one corner of the room.
The books and toys, and tables and chairs could not move; but the parrot was wide awake, and very much alive.
The parrot was an old grey bird with a solemn, wise face.
The mention of the parrot had set her thoughts working; her face suddenly lighted up with the inspired look of one who has just conceived an epoch-making idea.
The only evidence of practical romance I can bring forward, is that the lieutenant did undoubtedly present Miss Barbara on one of his home-comings from distant parts with a grey parrot with a red tail.
The head of the enemy's column appeared in view--then there burst, as if from the bosom of silent night, a yell such as no earthly parrot ever uttered or whale conceived.
But no sooner were his eyes opened than he saw his parrot sitting on a branch of a tree.
Friday, the dog, and the parrot lived in it, dearly beloved and cared for by their master the rest of their days.
And there were his parrot and the dog which had won a place in Robinson's heart.
But it was when the parrot called that a terror of the place and of the eyes of the people arose in her so strongly that she could not have lifted her head any more than if her neck had been of iron.
The auctioneer attempted to start the bidding, and the parrot interrupted with a repetition of the lines.
Owing to an exceedingly liberal definition of a term, the parrot and cage were included.
With a singular audacity and scorn, the parrot bawled these lines at the auctioneer as if it considered them to bear some particular insult.
He developed a grin for the power of the sea, and, in derision, he wanted to sell the red and green parrot which had sailed four voyages with him.
The parrot was evidently under heaps of carpet, but the dauntless bird still raised the cry, "On the level?
Presently his friend, coming to call upon him, saw the parrot in this condition with head torn off, and without wings or plumage.
When the shopkeeper heard the parrot talk of last night's deluge, he said: "Surely O bird, thou art gone clean daft!
Hardly had he left the door than the woman went for her old lover, who returned with her and they passed the night together in mirth and merriment, while the parrot observed all.
Thus did they raise such a tempest of rain and lightning, that the parrot was drenched and half-drowned in a deluge.
Betimes in the morning the lover fared forth and the husband, returning, was informed by the parrot of what had taken place; whereupon he hastened to his wife's room and beat her with a painful beating.
This parrot caused abundant trouble to the wife, always telling her husband what took place in his absence.
The wife and her confidante then planned how they might destroy the credit of the parrot with the master.
FN#164] In all editions the Wazir here tells the Tale of the Merchant's Wife and the Parrot which, following Lane, I have transferred to vol.
A parrot belonging to the sister of the Comte de Buffon (says Bingley,) "would frequently speak to himself, and seem to fancy that some one addressed him.
Goldsmith says, "That a parrotbelonging to King Henry VIII.
While she uttered her moans the parrot never left her chamber.
This was refused; but it was agreed, that as the parrot had offered a reward, the man should again refer to its determination for the sum he was to receive.
A waterman happening to be near the place where the parrot was floating, immediately took it up, and restored it to the king; demanding, as the bird was a favourite, that he should be paid the reward that it had called out.
Then he made a dive at the monkey, and as Whiskers scampered away, the parrot flew after him, plunged his beak in Whiskers' tail, and away they flew into the next room.
Both the parrot and monkey were yelling furiously inside, and did not cease their clamor until their owners went in and pacified them.
In the midst of the scuffle, a monkey and parrotcame flying in from the next room, howling like fiends.
It did not take them long to put their clothing and the parrot and monkey aboard the Terror.
And so saying Tim chased him into the store-room of the Terror, where the parrot and monkey were roosting, and a moment afterwards the four became tangled up in a struggle that shook the stage like an earthquake.
The machine was then taken apart and packed away as they had no further use for it, the parrot and monkey were transferred to Jack's house and Jack refunded the money to the Wrightstown bank much to everybody's surprise.
The monkey had been chasing theparrot when Tim and Fritz got fighting, and as these two creatures possessed more than ordinary intelligence, they at once determined to take sides with their respective owners.
Dubosc might indulge a fancy and Fenayrou seek to carry it as a pose, but The Parrot remained a gentleman of strictly serious turn.
Fenayrou stared at him wide-eyed, and from the shadow of a folded mat The Parrot thrust his purpled face.
Besides a lid'l fool parrotto do juggle-trick work!
Tunstal watched for a time and drank for a time and chuckled like a parrot over sugar.
The tree having thus withered a parrot that had lived in a hollow of its trunk all his life, did not leave his nest out of affection for the lord of the forest.
Knowing the great attachment of the parrot to that tree and his high character, Indra, well-pleased, caused the tree to be quickly sprinkled over with nectar.
Motionless and without food silent and sorrowful, that grateful and virtuous parrot also withered away with the tree.
Although the destroyer of Vala knew that parrot to be of a highly virtuous character and meritorious in action, he still enquired of him about the reason of his affection for the tree.
Enraged with the conduct of the parrot, the deity of blazing flames cursed the whole parrot race, saying, 'Ye shall from this day be deprived of the power of speech.
At this, the compassionate parrot craved this boon of him, saying,--Let this tree revive.
Du Tertre gives the following description:--"The Arras is a sort of Parrot bigger than all the others.
Newton united it with the Vaza Parrots in the genus Coracopsis, Finsch included it, together with the Vazas and the Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus), in the genus Psittacus.
This extraordinary parrot was first described and made known to science by Professor Owen in 1866.
Dubois) described this Parrot clearly in 1674, and that it lived on Reunion, and not on Madagascar.
Unfortunately the writer does not mention the colour, but adds that the smaller green and blue parrot (Palaeornis exsul) was much handsomer; so we can safely assume that our bird was of sombre colouration.
This parrot was described from a portion of the upper mandible by Professor Milne-Edwards, and then was more fully described by Dr.
This parrot is one of the rarest of extinct birds, only two stuffed specimens being known.
And Empress Eugenie never attained to anything more than parrot knowledge in the way of politics.
In one of the private apartments the rabble had come upon an aged parrot screeching at the top of its voice, "A bas Guizot!
The human parrot had not even been parrot-like, for he had muddled the whole in transmission.
Parrot ushered in a tall figure in black and then withdrew.
Did they go about with a parrot on their shoulder like Miss Davis?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parrot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
