And as they rode along, Lady mine, The throstlegave them song, And the buds peeped through the grass To see youth and beauty pass, Lady mine.
Birds in those branches did sing, Blackbird and throstle and linnet, But she walking there was by far the most fair-- Lovelier than all else within it, Blackbird and throstle and linnet.
Poem: From Spring Days To Winter (For Music) In the glad springtime when leaves were green, O merrily the throstle sings!
The yellow apples glowed like fire, O merrily the throstle sings!
But now with snow the tree is grey, Ah, sadly now the throstle sings!
Between the blossoms red and white, O merrily the throstle sings!
Now the mead-flowers jostle so thick as they stand, And singeth the throstle all over the land?
He is larger than the fieldfare, while the Throstle is smaller.
A blackbird's song is, I think, always a love song, but mere exuberance of spirits will make a throstle sing.
In 1901 a throstle built in the roof of the lychgate of the churchyard close to this garden.
A particular throstle will choose his favourite spot to sing from, and will keep to it more or less throughout the season.
In the dry summer of 1911 I noticed at different times both a throstle and a blackbird attended in the same way by a sparrow.
The former resemble throstle and ring spinning machines, but since they do not attenuate the material, only one line of rollers is provided.
The throstle has almost disappeared from the cotton industry, and Danforth's cap frame entirely so, but the latter is still used to spin worsted.
For the purpose of twisting the strands together the spindles may be provided either with flyers, as in throstle spinning, or with rings and travellers, as in ring spinning.
The song may be thus imperfectly rendered: "Merrily thethrostle sings Amid the merry May; The throstle signs but to my ear; My heart is far away!
He sat and watched the brook run on, the pied birds come to drink, the throstle stir on the olive, the cloud shadows steal over the brown, bare fields.
From the distance there came faintly the musical cries of the boatmen down the river, the voices of the vine-tenders in the fields, the singing of a throstle on a wild-grape tendril.
The doubling and twisting of cotton or linen yarn into a compact thread, for weaving bobbin-net, or for sewing garments, is performed by a machine resembling the throstle of the cotton-spinner.
The number of spindles in a throstle frame 12 feet long, is about 60 on each side.
The rest of this flax-spinning apparatus resembles in every respect the throstle frame of the cotton-spinner.
They mend the broken ends, and replace the empty bobbins in the creel with full ones, and the full bobbins of the throstleby empty ones.
Throstle yarn is of a firm wiry quality, adapted to the warps of fustians and other strong stuffs, as well as to the manufacture of stockings and sewing thread.
If a throstle sing he falls straight a-cap'ring; he will fence with his own shadow; if I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.
The young leaf bursts its chrysalis And gem-like hangs upon the bough, Where the mad throstle sings in bliss O'er earth's rejuvenated brow.
The sun shone forth brightly, and a throstle joined in from a damson tree at the top of his voice.
Once we passed a brown figure of some labouring man returning to his cottage, and as we neared a thicket of budding blackthorn we were greeted by the voice of a throstle singing his evening hymn.
The rabbits wandered away from their burrows, and made desultory scrapings by the pathsides, and the birds, the throstle and pigeon, sang again half heartedly.
The redwings were his favourite game, for it was possible to strike one down silently; whereas no sooner did he miss a spring at throstle or blackbird than the whole wood knew of the occurrence.
Throstle and skylark to be admired must be heard at a distance.
But there was no blackbird at the spot, and no lost drake, and no bird, except a throstle sitting motionless on the bush mound.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "throstle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: mule; spider; spinner; spinster
