I was so deeply, deeply flattered that I had to leave him then and there to preen and preen myself before the cubist sofas.
Even in the house, as he sat by the fire in the evening, it would mount on his lap, nestle its head in his bosom, and preen his hair with its beak, as it was wont to do its own feathers.
No longer did shepreen herself, as had been her wont.
Resting gently on thy bosom, Snowy sea-gulls preen thy wings, While perfumed sighs, from many a blossom, Float around the strain the skylark sings.
The laddies paid fine attention, an' ye cudda heard a preen fa'in' when Sandy was speakin'.
He also adds the following notes on behavior: I have seen the greater yellow-legs preenits plumage in leisurely manner without repeatedly dipping the bill in the water, as the lesser frequently does.
When satiated with food or tired of strenuous activity, they retire to the crest of the beach, or the broad sloping sand plains beyond it, to rest and doze or preen their plumage.
At high tide, when their feeding grounds are covered, they resort to the high beaches to rest, preen their plumage, and sleep.
This is what he wrote: "Some days she will come and preen her feathers by my side as I write.
I was going to tell you about the way Fessor laughed when I tried to spruce up and preen my feathers.
Doris, now is the psychological moment, as Miss Preen would say, for springing our find.
Before the hour was over Geraldine had, at least, to acknowledge to herself that Miss Preen knew how to teach and that she made the subject very interesting.
Betty glanced up and saw the sharp eyes of Miss Preen turning in their direction.
Merry introduced the new pupil to the angular Miss Preen and Geraldine thought she never had seen a thinner person or one with sharper eyes.
I hope Miss Preenand Professor Lowsley enjoyed being snowed in together.
He that winna lout and lift a preenwill ne'er be worth a groat.
It was when working in this more deliberate way that the male would go to his perch on an adjoining tree and preen himself, catch flies, or sing between his visits.
He started to go for it once after the owner had returned, caught sight of him, stopped short, and much to my amusement concluded to sit down and preen his feathers!
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Metaproteins--result from further action of acids or alkalies, soluble in weak acids and alkalies, but insoluble in dilute salt solutions.
All natural proteins, when in colloidal solution, may be coagulated, forming a semi-solid gel, which cannot again be rendered soluble except by decomposition.
Even under the stimulation of these reaction-accelerating agencies, most chemical changes in organic compounds when carried on in the laboratory, require several hours or even days and sometimes weeks, for their completion.
Negatively, I have seen the heron preen itself very elaborately, without once raising a foot so as to touch the feathers.
Still, the business was not one a man would preen himself upon in a company of honest men and women.
I saw him rise from his chair; I saw the astounded look of old Deborah Preen when she came in with his supper ale in a jug.
Deborah Preen stood at the door, crying and calling as if in some dire calamity.
Just as natural as it was for Preen to come stealing round through the kidney beans to the front-garden, an anxious look on her face.
One fine evening, however, in the late spring, when not very far short of a twelvemonth had elapsed, Hyde astonished Deborah Preen by his return.
Deborah Preen was washing endive at the pump in the yard.
A few minutes later the guests were seated at the wedding breakfast, while Dolly Preen again leaned out of the window, having returned there after attending to the bride, to whom two fresh pocket-handkerchiefs were supplied.
Exit Miss Dolly Preen as Justine exclaimed once more, "Lil bebe," and became so sphinx-like that she appeared deep as a knowledge mine.
On no possible point of superiority can we preen ourselves save this: that we can laugh, and that they, with one notable exception, cannot.
It is on the scoring of such points as these that I preen myself, and my memory is always ringing the 'changes' I have had, complacently, as a man jingles silver in his pocket.
The oil with which birds preen their feathers, and the glands that supply it, constitute a remarkable provision peculiar to the feathered creation.
All the members of this family bathe frequently, paddling about when in the water until their coats are quite saturated, and subsequently preen their feathers with the greatest care.
The ledge now, at past eleven, is very quiet, though the majority of the birds still stand, and some preen themselves.
The other bird seems only too happy to be left in peace, and instead of pressing the assault whilst his adversary is thus engaged and at a momentary disadvantage, generally stands unconcerned or begins to preen himself also.
The skua caught up one sprat before it hit the surface, but, being too late to overtake the rest, seemed to take no further notice of them, but swept on, to settle upon the water a mile away and preen himself.
Wherefore our gallant friend did not come down to preen and breakfast like the rest, but sat motionless as a statue, while the sun rose and touched him to a winking golden and bronze wonder, and the mists began to be torn asunder.
Oliver Preen was with her then, revelling in the sunny days which were flitting away on gossamer wings.
David Preen had gone in first, her kinsman and distant cousin, to the Petite Maison Rouge, paving the way, as it were, for Featherston.
He was very sorry for the uncomfortable position Miss Preen found herself in, and he certainly was not surprised she should wish to quit the Petite Maison Rouge if affairs could not be made more agreeable there.
Sainteville felt surprised and sorry to hear that Miss Preen was going to leave it to its own devices, for the town had grown to like her.
He thought Mademoiselle Preen must have inward inflammation, he said to Madame Sauvage, and inquired what she had eaten for dinner.
Miss Preen then remembered that she had forgotten one or two things, and must go out again.
So Lavinia and Ann Preen lived at the Court, and had no other home.
I had seen Ann Preenat Buttermead when she lived there, but the Ann Preen (or Fennel) I saw now was not much like her.
Miss Preen received a letter from Dover pretty early in the week, written by Ann.
That the gallant ex-Captain Fennel had married Ann Preen just to have a roof over his head, Lavinia felt as sure of as that the moon occasionally shone in the heavens.
That same evening, after David Preen had left--for he went in to spend an hour at the little red house to gossip about the folks at home--Nancy was taken with a fit of shivering.
Ignorant of what there is flitting here to see, The waked birds preen and the seals flop lazily, Soon you will have, Dear, to vanish from me, For the stars close their shutters and the dawn whitens hazily.
You never preenor plume, Or look in a week at your full-length figure - Picture of bachelor gloom!
