I had seen something like feathers eddying slowly down as the hawk ate, and on approaching the spot found the feathers of a sparrow here and there clinging to the bushes beneath the tree.
It is too good not to be true: A male bird brought to his box a large, fine goose-feather, which is a great find for a sparrow and much coveted.
What wonder if like the pine-wood sparrow and the wind of Okeechobee the voice of the woodland always questioned?
Guido watched the sparrow clear the ear, then he moved, and the sparrows flew back to the copse, where they chattered at him for disturbing them.
Jimmy says the sparrow only escaped by the skin of its teeth, because just as Faithful had got everything out of the way and was going to set to work in earnest, the sparrow flew out and went and sat up in a tree chirruping like anything.
It was a cheekysparrow and kept flying about at Faithful and hiding behind the pots on the stage.
The sparrow didn't seem to know that, Jimmy says, and when Faithful got on the stage and began clearing the decks for action it actually had the face to go and pick up a worm that came out of one of the pots that fell on the ground.
Jimmy says bloodhounds don't stand any nonsense of that sort, and the sparrow ought to have known it.
Faithful got a sparrow out of a greenhouse like that, Jimmy says.
No; they chose a poor littlesparrow that could not defend itself, and this was =cowardly=.
A sparrow was one day flying over a road when he saw lying there a long strip of rag.
Remember the sparrow and the rag, and (Blackboard) Do not be Beaten, but Try, Try Again.
She nursed and fed it carefully, and put it in a warm place by the fire; but, in spite of all her care, the sparrow died in a few hours.
It was a poor little brown sparrow that had somehow hurt its leg, and could not fly.
If to believe that not a lily can grow, not a sparrow fall to the ground without our Father, be pantheism, Alister and I are pantheists.
Her face, from which the blood has been running, is lying on the most frightful rubbish; a few of the feathers of a young sparrow lie on the back of her neck, over which the flies are meandering.
She had never heard of Vert-Vert, nor even of Philip Sparrow and she would not have been of the young and pretty novices, whose toilet the immortal parrot superintended with a connoisseur's eye.
Philip Sparrow needs no introduction to English readers; Skelton was never in happier vein than when he sang the dirge of that pet of Joanna Scrope, boarder at Carrow Priory, dead at the claws of a "vylanous false cat.
He teaches her what it is and gives her the sparrow hawk.
The Vesper Sparrow builds its nest on the ground without reference to any special plant protection except that of grass and other low herbage.
I should think you'd lose heart in this frosty air," Said a sparrow one day to a snowdrop fair.
In the fields, the pastures and along the roadsides of the Eastern United States and the British Provinces may be found the unobtrusive Vesper Sparrow (Poocaetes gramineus).
God has numbered the hairs of our heads, and not a sparrow falls without His knowledge.
Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His consent.
Nothing on earth is safe for a moment, save in the long-suffering and tender mercy of Him of whom are all things, and by whom are all things, without whom not a sparrow falls to the ground.
You'll not go off to sleep afore the chicken and sparrow grass is ate, will you, Aunt?
I should be thinking of the hot fowl and sparrow grass what's for dinner.
Spring chicken with sparrow grass be the right feeding for such as they.
There be chicken and sparrow grass for supper, Aunt.
The sparrow was a greedy little bird, and she had seen him gormandise in Sapps Court.
A sparrow could not live upon the little food she takes.
It was swiftly and skilfully done, but still Nurse Sparrow shook her head.
She had expected to find Mrs. Sparrow in an agitation of terror; but, behold!
The cat, struck with this remark, set the sparrow down and began to wash his face with his paw, but the sparrow flew away.
A cat caught a sparrow, and was about to devour it; but the sparrow said, "No gentleman eats till he washes his face.
Then, to use the words of the eye-witness, the gull "set at a sparrow as a pointer dog would do at its game.
How, in particular, will the Ringed Calicurgus set to work in operating on the Black-bellied Tarantula, the terrible Lycosa, who with a single bite kills the Mole or the Sparrow and endangers the life of man?
Later he will learn that the Sparrow is not the Bullfinch, that the Linnet is not the Greenfinch; he will particularize and to a greater degree each day, as his faculty of observation becomes more fully trained.
Three times within the last twelve months Jane had fled from her husband's roof to the protection of her widowed mother, a weak person of excellent ancestry, who could hardly have protected a sparrow had one taken refuge beneath her skirt.
Now and then some small bird of the sparrow family would flit away before me, unable to command its course, like a fragment of the gray rock blown off by the wind.
It was a cedar swamp, through which the peculiar note of the white-throated sparrow rang loud and clear.
The sparrowflew about from one cage to another, hurling taunts at the enraged creatures, enjoying himself immensely.
The Princess saw the familiar, dreamy look come into Toots' eyes, as he began to translate the gossip of the sparrow and the deer.
The sparrow was no quicker than were Toots and the Princess to profit by this hint.
When Mahmoud had finished his discourse the sparrow suddenly dropped out of the sky at his feet with a chirp and a cheerful toss of his head.
The sparrowhopped up on the rim of Mahmoud's ear, and said cheerily: "Why don't you go home for a visit?
The sparrow is keeping his word," said the Princess, clapping her hands.
With this the sparrow hopped down from the deer's antlers at Toots' feet, and began fluttering his wings and scolding at him.
It must be all right," said Toots, "or the sparrow would fly away.
And of a truth this is meet, for is not the sparrow official news-gatherer and gossip for all the Menial People?
This meddlesome wretch of a sparrow says we are chattering nobodies.
While the sparrow thus spoke, Caliph raised his head slowly out of the water.
So engrossed were they with the memories that inspired them that they forgot the sparrow utterly.
But the elephant gave no heed to the boy, and the sparrow had flown away.
Oh, it is nothing, nothing at all," chirped the sparrow with affected modesty.
He sang to thee the Marseillaise, and thou kissedst the pen that fell from his wing; he came in the radiance of Paradise, and perchance thou didst turn away from him towards the sparrow who sat with tinsel on his wings.
But in spite of his wise head, the architect remained but a poor bird; and, indeed, what business has a sparrow to take part in a dance of peacocks?
A London Sparrow for two years occupied a sleeping-home almost as bare of furniture as the ceiling which the East Indian Butterfly frequented.
Above was the bare white-washed top of the portico, there were no cosy corners, and at eighteen inches from the Sparrow was the gas-lit portico lamp.
They are fond of sleeping in the sides of straw-ricks, but each Sparrow has its own little hollow among the straws, just as each of a flock of sleeping Larks makes its own "cubicle" on the ground.
Remember that God is really and in very truth your Father, and that without him not a sparrow falls to the ground; and are ye not of more value than many sparrows, O ye of little faith?
Blindly they seek, but that all-seeing Eye That sees the tiny sparrow when it falls, Is watching them, His angels hover near.
According to his teaching, {346} "a sparrow shall not fall to the ground without the will of your heavenly Father; but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sparrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
