A starling is, I believe, not an easy bird to take if he has anything of a start.
At this point the starling interrupted the youth's vehement speech with the appropriate cry, "My strength!
That's a man's hand," said Mrs. Starlingto herself.
Mrs. Starling put up her work with a sigh of relief; and the rest of the persons concerned felt free to dismiss the subject from their minds and pay attention to the supper.
And Mrs. Starling stood in the door of the lean-to and looked on too, from a distance; and if she was still, it was because she had no one near just then to whom it was safe to open her mind.
Mrs. Starling looked at her daughter, and saw that she meant it.
Mrs. Starling got out her pails and baskets destined for the berry-picking, and gave some of them to her daughter.
Why had Mrs. Starling not at least read the letter before destroying it?
And Diana followed at a little distance, driving Prince; Mrs. Starling declaring herself "tuckered out.
She could stand no more of her mother's talk; she left her and went off to the dairy, till Mrs. Starling crept up-stairs again.
Mrs. Starling might smile grimly to herself as she saw her crab-apples and jellies disappear, and the piles of biscuits go down and get heaped up again by Diana's care.
Mrs. Reverdy entered with flattering interest into all the matters of household and farm detail respecting which Mrs. Starling chose to be communicative; responded with details of her own.
The action and air of the woman were so commanding, that even Mrs. Starling stood still with a certain involuntary deference.
There ain't the hay there had ought to be in the mows, neither," Mrs. Starling went on to her daughter.
The similarity to the Starlingnarrative in Sterne’s volume fills Pankraz’s heart with glee.
The Starling wanted to get out and so do his monkeys, and Pankraz’s only questions are: “What did Yorick do?
May not either the woodpecker or the starling be a cuckoo in posse?
But the starlingmay be regarded in a nobler light than that of a parasitical appropriator, or even a mere finder of, dwellings.
It is something--balm in Gilead--yet had it not been for the starling there might have been more.
I have noticed that a woodpecker which has abandoned its hole, always lays claim to magnanimity, as the motive for such abandonment, whereas the starling as invariably attributes it to weakness.
Starling in possession of Woodpecker’s Nesting Hole] But there is another possibility.
Lastly, if a starling can do such a prodigious amount of excavation for himself, why should he be beholden to a sand-martin, or any other bird, for a beginning or any part of it?
But, with or without this, the starling appears to me to be an architect of considerable eminence, and, as such, not to have received any adequate recognition.
What was this feeling of the starlingtowards the peewits?
Defn: A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe.
The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white.
The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
Each grasp of the berry a red stain, the darting of seeds, crimson tendrils do confuse the eye with a polka dot starling raucous in glee above.
A definite mood projects the starling tunnels, forlorn now with limpid darkness, crushed lavender from the pews of thoughtful night.
Pity, mourn in plaintive tone The lovely starlingdead and gone!
Venus see with tearful eyes-- In her lap the starling lies, While the Loves all in a ring Softly stroke the stiffen'd wing.
Starling darling, you don't mind beards in a young man, do you?
You see, Starling darling, I wanted you to be prepared," said Joan.
Starling darling, you are the most priceless treasure.
I suppose you thought that young man in the picture very handsome, didn't you, Starling darling?
Starling dear, I wanted to say something to you before you saw him.
Starling declared that "there is no difficulty in keeping an animal alive as long as you like," and Sir Victor Horsley affirmed that one could keep a dog under chloroform "FOR A WEEK, if you only take the trouble.
Starling had admitted the impossibility of a dog, under curare, making any cry, Dr.
A pigeon or starling would come and take the food without paying any attention to the strange object which so startled the sparrow.
That is hardly the case; in big towns the sparrow, like the rat and black beetle, although not in so unpleasant a way, is parasitical on man, whereas the starling is perfectly independent.
Between the starling and the next in order, the blackbird, there is again a very great difference with regard to numbers.
The sparrow, as we have seen, does not leave home, but recently there has been a great increase in the more vagrant species, the starling and wood-pigeon especially.
It has been said that the starling is almost as closely associated with man as the sparrow.
The starling is the most interesting London bird in his autumn movements.
There is more variety in the starling than in any other species, and not only in his language; if you observe him closely for a short time, he will treat you to a sudden and surprising transformation.
The starling ranks second to the sparrow in numbers; but albeit second, the interval is very great: the starlings' thousands are but a small tribe compared to the sparrows' numerous nation.
Black Gnat--Starling's breast and black silk, cypher hook; or black Ostrich strand and inside wing feather of Starling for wings.
The thrush and the starlingwould not understand what you meant.
I will tell the thrush and the starling not to endure him any longer.
The assembly applauded the fox's foresight, and away flew the starlingwith the message.
Not half-an-hour since a starling came in with the intelligence that Choo Hoo's advanced guard had already reached his old camp.
The starling flew away before I could ask him, and as for the rest they are so busy telling one another they will not answer me.
Just then Ah Kurroo Khan sent a starling to know if they had finished, because Choo Hoo had quitted his camp, and his outposts were not a mile off.
He then peered round his heap of grass, but there were no greenfinches near; they had come out from the hedges, and the starling had come from the hollow pollard where he had a nest, but all had settled a long way off from his hiding-place.
Just as it was about to set out, the fox begged permission to say one word more, which being readily granted, he asked if he might send a message by the starling to Ah Kurroo Khan.
He despatched a starling with a message, describing the course he had taken at once to the copse, and the starling, flying with great speed, arrived there in a few minutes.
The starling is very dutiful in that way; but the rook beats him hollow.
The starlinghas been rapidly increasing of late years.
A study of the breeding biology of the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris L.
Whether it is worms or insects or verdure they seek among the grazing cows, there is evidently little enough to go round, and starling fights starling with peck and protest all over the field.
Their favourite in verse at the time was Lars Porsena of Clusium, and they gave the starling the best they knew--gave it to him from beginning to end.
They will be as cunning as he, and the robin will wind his alarum-clock, the starling in the plum-tree will cry out like a hysterical drake, and the blackbird will make as much noise as a farmyard.
I love his note and ways better even than those of the orchard starling or the Baltimore oriole; yet his nest, compared with theirs, is a half-subterranean hut contrasted with a Roman villa.
The kingbird and orchard starling remain the whole season, and breed in the treetops.
The rich, copious song of the starling may be heard there all the forenoon.
The same is true of the pewees, the kingbird, and the sparrows, while the common bluebird, the oriole, and the orchard starling afford examples the other way.
The persecution which the Green Woodpecker suffers from the Starling is well known.
As far as my experience goes, the Starling is always the aggressor, and there is only too good reason to fear that, in the course of time, the Green Woodpecker will disappear as a result of the greater fertility and tenacity of its enemy.
That there is constant warfare between the Green Woodpecker and the Starling is well known, the purpose of the Starling being to gain possession of the hole which the Woodpecker with much skill has drilled for itself.
In 1845 he bought a fledgling Starling for eighteen-pence, and at once commenced its education.
The Rose Starling is from eight and a quarter to eight and three-quarter inches long, and from sixteen to eighteen and a half broad; the wings measure three inches and a quarter.
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