English sparrows are not real birds; they are little beasts.
There was a church in Brooklyn which was once covered with a great and spreading vine, in which the sparrows built innumerable nests.
For example, the God of traditional Christianity is supposed to spend much time counting hairs on the heads of His people and watching sparrows fall to the ground.
Sceptics are reverently but earnestly asking: Why does He not keep thesparrows from falling?
But, indeed, the Philadelphians of to-day can never know from what loathsome creatures the sparrows have delivered them.
Though I go back to days before the sparrows had driven away not only the worms but all others of their own race, I recall no orioles and scarlet tanagers, no yellow and blue birds.
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
The window lattices shone as if they themselves were suns reflecting their own light, and sparrows twittered on the dripping eaves.
The bullfinch sang a piteous little song of spring, and the sparrows answered from the chestnut-trees outside.
So are the crow family and the thrushes, as you will see, while some of the sparrows and tits are perfect dandies.
This is the only one of our commonsparrows that shows the white feather--the vesper sparrow, or bay-winged bunting.
Two little twittering sparrows Shivering under the eaves, Watching the slanting raindrops Pattering over the leaves.
But our little friends are seldom alone; as almost constant companions they have the nuthatches, snowbirds, tree sparrows and goldfinches.
In Central Mississippi, as in parts of Northern Ohio, field sparrows are very numerous, but chippies quite rare.
Undoubtedly some were attracted by the English sparrows which were almost omnipresent among the upper branches, but all enjoyed clawing, stretching and scratching up the friendly trunk.
The sparrowsat Lindholme have made themselves scarce here, under the following circumstances:--William of Lindholme seems to have united in himself the characters of hermit and wizard.
I envy nests of sparrows That dot his distant eaves, The wealthy fly upon his pane, The happy, happy leaves That just abroad his window Have summer's leave to be, The earrings of Pizarro Could not obtain for me.
This covert have all the children Early aged, and often cold, -- Sparrows unnoticed by the Father; Lambs for whom time had not a fold.
He hated the little wet sparrows who sat up under the eaves and exchanged uncomplimentary remarks about the weather.
Cocks began to crow, as if the storm-clearing was of their own contrivance; sparrows chirped.
On a sugi limb quite near, a row of sparrows placed themselves, slowly puffing out their feathers in unison, like so many buns in a warm oven.
Spring struggling through smoke and fog, dingy sparrows playing on the grass, and a careworn face looking upon it all.
But, as Mrs. Dorriman looked upon the smoky sparrows and the grass showing green under difficulties, she noticed that the birds were contending and not playing, they each wanted a long straw, envied it.
Saxons of Transylvania, charm for keepingsparrows from the corn used by the, ii.
A faint dewy sparkle on the grass and the sweetbriars; the song sparrows giving good-morrow to each other and tuning their throats for the day; and a few wood thrushes now and then telling of their shyer and rarer neighbourhood.
Between whiles, the little song sparrows strained their throats with rejoicing; but that was the joy of hilarious nature that sorrows and defilement had never touched.
On the lawn you will find the soft grasses you want for the outside, and in the barnyard you can get the long horse hairs that all Chipping Sparrows think they must have for a dry, cool nest-lining.
Look at their case: they have seen no birds but English Sparrows and caged Canaries and Parrots; few of them know the Robin; they practically never go to the country, and many of them never even go to the parks.
Goldfinches and Tree Sparrows are still quite abundant, and there is a flock of fifty or sixty Pine Grosbeaks, mostly in young plumage, in the woods about a mile to the west of us, the first I have seen this winter.
The Sparrows lingered about until the first week in January, when a large flock of Snow Buntings made their appearance.
At this writing, the Sparrows shut out from the tree orifices are building to some extent in the branches of the trees upon the Common.
Lieutenant Robinson writes that a pair of Chipping Sparrows placed their nest in the climbing rose bush at the end of the piazza.
A few days later, however, neither Sparrows nor Buntings were to be found anywhere.
Our little doorstep friend is the very smallest of all the brown Sparrows you know, and wears a reddish brown cap, and a gray vest so plain it hasn't a single button or stripe on it.
A large flock of Wild Geese passed over on the 7th, and I saw a few Tree Sparrows and a Winter Wren about the last of the month.
Chipping Sparrows don't like to live too close to their next door neighbors.
The sparrows chattered in the bare trees above us, the sparrows who even in this keen air felt the coming of spring which was foretold by the greening of the grass in the public squares.
Wrens and sparrows have gone to the hayricks, roosting in little holes in the sides under the slightly projecting thatch.
They supported a vast breadth of thatched roof drilled by sparrows and starlings.
From week's end to week's end the silent nave and aisles remained empty; the chirp of the sparrows was the only sound to be heard there.
There are no trees for shadow--nothing but a few elder bushes, which are crowded at intervals of a few minutes with sparrows rushing with a whirr of wings up from the standing corn.
The path now trends somewhat away from the stream and skirts a ploughed field, where the hedges are cropped close and the elms stripped of the lesser boughs about the trunks, that the sparrows may not find shelter.
Near to us, one of these needy students is eating, without any false shame, his midday meal of dry bread; and he welcomes with a smile the sparrows and the other little winged thieves who come to dispute with him the crumbs of his repast.
As we draw nearer to the chain of Libya, where this king awaits us, we traverse fields still green with growing corn--and sparrows and larks sing around us in the impetuous spring of this land of Thebes.
The sparrows were silent, the noisy children returned to the house, and only the nightingale sang continually in the shrubbery.
The sparrows and doves flew about hither and thither; the handsome dogs crowded up to him and sniffed around him, but Roland was like one bewildered.
Roland brought his cross-bow and shot at the doves and sparrows in the courtyard.
The sparrows quarreled together, and after picking up all the crumbs they could find, took their flight.
Other sparrows were less prudent or more unfortunate.
The words, still wet, stared up into the baggy cloth ceiling, and the sparrows dropped straws over them while Ensign Hector Clive was being interviewed by his Colonel.
If I were to compare them to sparrows on the road, I should be doing the sparrows but little honour.
Sparrows picked in the straw that lay on the street.
He listened more eagerly to the lowing of a herd of cows and to the twittering of the sparrows than to the best founded principles of grammatical science.
Song sparrows sang from budding alder bushes, and robins flew hither and thither among the elms and maples, seeking suitable notches in which to begin their homes.
The sparrows outside twittered, the cricket renewed its chirp, and at length, drawing courage from the sunlight, I moved forward and lifted the dog's coat from the floor.
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