But the tomtitnever came again--and neither did the letter from the bishop!
The body of the first is made of blue squirrel's fur, mixed with a little yellow mohair; a blue dun cock's hackle round the shoulder, and a tomtit wing.
Tomtit he sed he was afrade the minister woodent like it but the minister sed he was very sure he wood like it and so Tomtit he stood up and made a bow and sed his peace and it was jest bully.
Tomtit Thompson sed he had a new peace about insex and the minister asted him to speak it and Tomtit dident want to, but the minister sed he had aught to be willing to help out in a good caus.
The bees buzzed all around; and there was a tomtit that never left us, but skipped along by our side from branch to branch.
At first I used to think you must be a tomtit, because I once had a tomtit with a name very like yours, though I don't remember exactly what it was.
Tomtit was mad becaus we woodent take sheet iron for pay.
Tomtit says he has got beter things than we have and he got all the fellers to go up there.
Mary Watson, Beany's sister and Mary Straton whose father chased me and Beany when we broke the gaslite, can run faster then enny of the fellers xcept Tomtit and Arthur Francis.
The tomtit told me just now in the fir-tree; the woodpecker told him on his promising that he would not tell anybody else.
Mark said once he found a tomtit on the shelf pecking at the food they had left there, just like a tomtit's impudence!
Seeing a tomtit on a bough watching for a chance to take a bee if one alighted before he went in, they considered it a sign they were off the mainland of Africa, as this was the honey-bird.
The chaffinch and the tomtit hopped about cheerfully enough in the bushes, and picked up what they could find.
But the chaffinch and the tomtit stood below on the ground and gazed at the dead bird.
No one can deny that the tomtit is a companionable little fellow.
It is the warning call of the tomtit or chickadee, which we soon espy tilting about on his trapeze of twigs in the trees or bushes.
Watch Master Tomtit as he performs some of his acrobatic feats, putting the tilters and tumblers in the human circus to the blush.
I have already informed the reader that the cabin of the Tomtit was twelve feet long by eight feet wide--a snug apartment, but scarcely large enough, as it struck me, for five men to sleep in comfortably.
The wind did hold, and more than hold: and the Tomtit flew, in consequence, as if she was going to give up the sea altogether, and take to the sky for a change.
The tide was then flowing; we were to sail the next morning; and it was necessary to get everything put on board that night, while there was water enough for the Tomtit to be moored close to the jetty.
The cabin of the Tomtit is twelve feet long, eight feet wide, and five feet six inches high.
At sunset, the little Tomtit had lost sight of land for the first time since she was launched, and was rising and falling gently on the long swells of the Atlantic.
Our cart, loaded with breakable things, was drawn up at the high end of the jetty; the Tomtit waiting to receive the contents of the cart at the low end, in the water.
Now the Tomtit gave orders to a troop of wasps that at the first onset they should march straight toward Captain Reynard and fixing themselves about his tail, should sting him with all their might.
Now when the gnat had heard all this, she flew back to the Tomtitand told him everything that had passed.
As the time came near when the war was to begin, the Tomtit sent out spies to see who was the leader of the enemy's forces.
Dennis Cokely and Tomtit Tomson had a fite behind Hirvey's resterent today.
Tomtit Tomson and Cawcaw Harding and Whack and Poz and Boog Chadwick went in swimming in May and all thru the summer until October.
Big as they are, they build like a tomtit does, right in a hollow tree, but the one I saw had only laid one egg, and a tomtit lays lots.
Well, big as you are, a tomtit having such superior facilities for getting about could easily defy you," I replied.
A Tomtit on the fence this morning made me dissolve in tears:--self-pity I believe.
Presently they re-enter the room with the kitten that was heard in the scullery or with a big stick used to flourish at a little Tomtit on the rose tree.
That's just what I expected Tomtit would do--double up somewhere; so I dursn't only put him down at half a one.
My only hope was that the little thing would flit through the big hole I made, and stay in the cabin till Tomtit was up.
Mr Tomtitthen told me that he had been to England, and called to see him, and shed tears when he said good-bye.
No one seemed to care to move for a long, long time, but at last Miss Bell's dress rustled softly as she glided away to her tent, and then Mr Tomtit went and leaned over the side.
As for Miss Bell, as far as I could see, she never even bowed to him, and he and Tomtit used to walk up and down the deck together, as if they were the fastest of friends.
The little tomtit was the worst of the two, just as the solemn reproof of the wise can be better borne than the impertinent remark of some chattering fool.
The tomtitsuspends her purse-like cradle to a bough, and trusts to the wind to nurse her progeny.
I once had the opportunity of seeing this slaughter going on, and was able to detect the great tomtit as the murderer.
These {42} have been caught after they have filled themselves with honey, and become torpid in consequence, by the great tomtit and possibly other birds.
Entering it suddenly one day, a tomtit flew from side to side in great agitation, and then dropped on the floor and allowed me to pick it up without an effort to escape.
In order to protect his little young, he put the tomtit under his wing, and going into the forest placed himself under the branches of a thick-leaved tree to shelter himself from the rain and hail.
Very distressed, he was walking about in the forest when he noticed a little tomtiton the ground.
As soon as tomtit espied it he glided into it, and from there he kept up a conversation with the stork.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tomtit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
