Occasionally a hoopoe perches on one of the bars from which my mosquito curtains hang, and thus unconsciously exposes himself to close scrutiny on my part.
The most familiar example of the rule in operation is the well-known habit of birds of surrendering theirperches to new-comers.
The most conspicuous of these is the Indian roller (Coracias indica), who uses the heads of the millet as convenient perches whence he can descend upon his quarry.
Right opposite a timber yard in a cocoanut grove: it was a heavy, whitewashed wall, as high as a man, and perhaps twoperches long.
Long since, the chickens had sleepily sought perches in the hen yard, with its high wall of rooty stumps and shakes, and on the branches of the Digger pine that towered beside it.
Quadrupeds are confined to their coverts, and the birds sit upon their perches this peaceful hour.
It comes and perches at last on the barrel of his gun; but the rest of the world never see it with the feathers on.
A cormorant, balanced on the top of one of the perches outside Delginish, sat with wings outstretched and neck craned forward, peering out to sea.
She reached one and then another of the perches which mark the channel into the harbour.
Fortunately, the two weather-cocks remained undisturbed on their perches at each end of the church, and still kept up a diametrical opposition to each other on all points of windy doctrine.
Then they got up on their perches and sat in the sun, shaking themselves and picking at their feathers.
The other Osages comes an' perches about, sympathetic, an' surveys Bill.
He had not gone more than a few perches from the door, when his mother followed him with a small bottle of holy water.
It walks about over the leaves, moving its head like a little hen; then perches on a limb a few feet from the ground and sends forth its shrill, rather prosy, unmusical chant.
Then too, when he perches in the day-time, he does not sit across a branch like other birds, but lengthwise, so that House People and cats cannot see him from below or cannibal birds from above.
That is what makes its foot as good as a hand to hold on with when itperches on slender twigs.
These facts must give rise to grave suspicions with regard to the accuracy of the commonly accepted version, notwithstanding its apparently implicit reception up to this time by the most critical historians.
It might be argued that the group to the left (of No.
The chief weapon she has are the nails on her fingers; each nail is seven perches long, of the hardest steel on earth.
He ran scarce twenty perchesbefore the fox caught him.
The duck had not flown fifteen perches when the hawk caught and killed her, smashing the egg.
Slowly perches swim in Autumn, Wry-backed, hunting deeper water, Spawn in shallows in the summer, Bounding on the shore of ocean.
Quadrupeds are confined to their coverts and the birds sit upon their perches this peaceful hour.
At this moment an instinctive movement among both masses took place; so that when Grimes had come within a few yards of Kelly, both parties were within two or three perches of them.
Another does the same, hanging from the tip of a cone, on which he afterwards perches for a moment, before flying with it to another tree.
Usually she flies past the tree--all beautiful in spring and early morning--where the cock sits, and perches in another at some little distance beyond it.
She perches in it again, and after remaining but a short time, flies down, and once more becomes invisible.
A large-sized Perch weighs about three pounds; but generally the Perches caught in ponds do not exceed eight or ten ounces in weight.
Driven off the belly, the horde runs round the sufferer, perches on his back and refuses to let go.
It was a wide space; I could tell you how wide, in chains andperches and furlongs and things, but that would not help you any.
The guerillas had been shooting at us from the edges of the jungle and from their perches in the leafy trees, and as they used smokeless powder, it was almost impossible to see them, though a few of my men had from time to time responded.
The box and perches, being painted light green, made a pretty sight when the percheswere filled with many birds of different size and colour.
I was very anxious to get a picture of them altogether, so had the old perchesbrought up that had been put away so long.
One day I was really surprised myself when I went into the room to find Blonde sound asleep in front of Blondell's cage on the platform, Brunette asleep in the gravel, and Bobbinette and Bobby on the perches above them.
In the centre of one side was part of a broomstick, with any number of perches all sizes on it, and a platform over the other side where a brass cage stood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
