If he had merely talked with Jasper, and asked him if he wouldn't please do differently, Buddy Brown-Thrasher would have received no more than a jeering shout in reply.
And even before the noisy Jasper had left, Buddy Brown-Thrasher began to lay his plans for putting a stop to Jasper's unpleasant trick.
Well, it is not surprising that Buddy Brown-Thrasher should be upset by Jasper Jay's provoking visits.
In his opinion, Buddy Brown-Thrasher was the most annoying of all the feathered songsters.
Though Buddy Brown-Thrasher could not see him, he could hear Jasper talking to his wife in a low tone, which was quite different from the noisy squawk that people at once thought of at the mere mention of Jasper Jay's name.
The little leader turned to Buddy Brown-Thrasher and said: "What have you to say to that?
Now, it was no accident that all those upon whom Buddy Brown-Thrasher called that morning belonged to the Pleasant Valley Singing Society.
If a wooden Indian had roamed through the woods where Buddy Brown-Thrasher was singing, he would have stopped to listen.
The time came at last when Buddy Brown-Thrasher said he couldn't stand it any longer.
The first thing that Buddy Brown-Thrasher did then was to seek his favorite perch in the very top of his own special tree and sing a morning-song that was more joyous than ever.
This was what Buddy Brown-Thrasher had been waiting for.
Then Buddy Brown-Thrasher cried out in a clear voice that Jasper wasn't trying his best, as he had promised the committee he would.
The following morning Buddy Brown-Thrasher was up bright and early--even earlier than was his habit.
Justice Squeezum, another character contained in this play, is a kind of first draft of the later Justice Thrasher in Amelia.
The subspecies dumosum of the Crissal Thrasher in Coahuila has been reported only from the southeastern section of the State.
This subspecies of the Curve-billed Thrasher occurs in northwestern Coahuila.
The Sage Thrasher seems to be a winter visitant to Coahuila.
This subspecies of the Curve-billed Thrasher occurs in eastern and southern Coahuila.
In Coahuila the Long-billed Thrasherseems to be uncommon.
And the sower, the mower, the reaper and thrasher are also extinct.
The steam thrasher travels from farm to farm and thrashes and winnows, relieving man of the labour.
The thrasher was exceedingly wary, and nothing was droller than his manner of approaching anything, whether a worm I had thrown on the matting for him, or the bathing-dish.
Nothing pleased the thrasher more than watching other birds; he observed them closely, especially liking to stand on top of a cage and see the life below,--an agitated life it was apt to be when he was there.
British steamer Falaba was sunk by a German submarine; information is being sought as to whether Thrasher was an American citizen at the time of his death.
When Mr. Thrasher went on board the Falaba he produced an American passport.
The Daily Mail says Mr. Thrasher was bound for Secondee, West Africa.
Did you not know that Melindy Jane Thrasher has a suitor who calls as regularly as he comes to the city?
Melindy Thrasher had not seen more than a fortnight's service in the Lawson family when Mr. Spriggins made it convenient to stay and spend the evening.
Melindy Jane Thrasher was truly the happiest customer that ever emerged from the time-honored establishment of Manchester, Robertson & Allison.
Yes indeed, Melindy Thrasher is going to leave Mr. Verne's--Kitty says so.
Within a week Melindy Thrasher was duly installed as general servant in the Lawson cottage, a fact which is worthy of mention as it is connected with other important matters relative to the affairs of the solicitor.
Guarding it on the right is a hill nearly three hundred feet high, and standing almost perpendicular above the water.
As one leaves the Pacific and enters Avatcha Bay he passes high rocks and cliffs, washed at their base by the waves.
A prudent traveler would be careful not to offend this or any other nautical superstition.
All over it there is excellent anchorage for ships of every class, while around its sides are several little harbors, like miniature copies of the bay.
Years ago, on the coast of New Hampshire, a man from the interior was appointed light keeper.
On the north of the horizon was a group of four or five mountains, while directly in front there were three separate peaks, of which one was volcanic.
We were about twenty miles from the shore, and the general appearance of the land reminded me of the Rocky Mountains from Denver or the Sierra Nevadas from the vicinity of Stockton.
Between and among these high peaks there were many smaller mountains, but no less steep and pointed.
From the tip of a fruit-tree in the Kelly yard a thrasher or a mocker was singing like one possessed.
The thrasher is to a peculiar degree a bird of passion; ecstatic in song, furious in anger, irresistibly pitiful in lamentation.
After that morning the thrasher came daily to the place, and a dessert of strawberries invariably followed the more substantial meal, but never again did he bring more than one of his family with him.
The young thrasher and the robin chirped in the grove; sweet bluebird and pewee baby cries came from the shrubbery; the golden-wing leaned far out of his oaken walls, and called from morning to night.
Its cousin the brownthrasher goes skulking about in much the same way, flirting from bush to bush like a culprit escaping from justice.
In the South and West the thrasher also nests in the vicinity of houses, but in New York and New England we must look for him in remote, bushy fields.
The brown thrasher is an advance upon the catbird, and the mockingbird is an advance upon the brown thrasher in the same direction.
The thrasher is not due yet, I said to myself, but there was its song, and no mistake, with all its quibs and quirks and interludes, being chanted from some treetop a few yards in advance of me.
His performance would probably have deceived the brown thrasher himself.
The song ceased and no thrasher was visible, but there sat a robin, which, as I paused, flew to a lower tree in a field at some distance from the road.
As I look toward the fields where the first brownthrasher is singing, I see emerald patches of rye.
It proved to be written in cipher, but Mr. Thrasherdeclared himself ignorant alike of its contents and its author.
While the American prisoners were in Havana, Mr. Thrasher took a marked interest in them, and did all in his power to alleviate the discomforts of their position.
All who are interested in the proper solution of the problem in the South should feel deeply grateful to Mr. Thrasher for the task which he has undertaken and performed so well.
Thrasher turned a dull white, and, for an instant, a sound as if his teeth were beginning to chatter, came faintly through his lips, but he turned it off with a laugh.
Surprise, for a moment, kept her mute; but directly there came into her eyes a proud, almost fierce determination, that Thrasher had never witnessed before.
As he spoke, Thrasher sat down, placed the bronze box on his knee, and forced the lid open.
After that all was quiet for another interval, till a thrasher from the hillside began to sing.
He was as plainly singing, and as completely absorbed in his work, as any thrasher or hermit thrush could have been.
The thrasher is the port-admiral of the station, and his blows are so many guns to enforce his orders to sail forthwith.
He has had enough of it," observed the master; "but the thrasher will not let him off so easily.
He must come up to breathe directly, and you'll find the thrasher yard-arm and yard-arm with him again.
In the Wheeler family a new thrasher or a new automobile was ordered without a question, but it was considered extravagant to go to a hotel for dinner.
A steam thrasher didn't last long; a horse outlived three automobiles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrasher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
