The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years!
Defn: Applied to the down of newly hatched orunfledged birds.
Defn: A nesting or unfledged Lird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to pr Shak J.
An unfledged birdling cannot mount to the dizzy eyries of the eagle," answered Clara meekly.
I see her prostrate on the great steps of her altar, praying for a fair night, for mariners at sea, for lambs in moors, and unfledged birds in woods.
Pierrot was the youngest and the prettiest of the four little children who lived huddled together, and happy under these elder trees like small unfledged birds in a nest.
What a little unfledged thing you are, to be carrying that bit of broken glass about with you!
Better be unfledgedthan a one-eyed stork," answered Rosamond, and skated swiftly out of sight.
I do not believe that the heart can ever experience a ruder shock than when anunfledged criminal first hears himself welcomed into the "Masonry" of guilt.
I, bluntly, to the guides, and using French, to show that I was no unfledged arrival from beyond the seas.
Both were equally sympathetic, and pitied the little unfledged creature, who was by some accident left motherless in his early youth.
On a wet stormy day in May a young unfledged bird was blown out of its nest and was picked up in a paved yard where, somehow, it had fallen unhurt.
A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.
A strong breeze soon fanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.
These attenuated volumes of poetry in fancy bindings open their covers at one like so many little unfledged birds, and one does so long to drop a worm in,--a worm in the shape of a kind word for the poor fledgling!
It is true that unfledged writers found a place to try their wings in it, and that makes it more interesting.
The unfledgedhad a copy of verses secreted about his person.
It chanced one day that a very young, unfledged author, passing through the city, looked in upon the publisher, who was also the editor of a famous magazine.
Beneath the dens where unfledged tempests lie, And infant winds their tender voices cry; Where their vast court the mother waters keep; And, undisturbed by moons, in silence sleep.
By this stratagem he seldom fails of so far attracting the attention of the intruder as to allow the female to conduct the helpless unfledged brood into some place of security.
In the spring of the year, if a person happened to walk under a rookery with a gun in his hand, the inhabitants of the trees rise on their wings, and scream to the unfledged young to shrink into their nests from the sight of the enemy.
I caused her to be reared; and she was hardly fledged, when I received from another place a nest of three or four unfledged larks.
They breed the latest of all our swallows, often having unfledged young ones even so late as Michaelmas.
The first name-pecking credit-scratching fowl Would drop her unfledged cuckoo in our nest To gather grayness there, give voice at length And shame the brood .
The youngest caught the sympathetic flame, And, though unfledged wings kept him still i' the cage, Yet he shot up to be a Canon, so Clung to the higher perch and crowed in hope.
Jim drew a long breath of relief, and put his finger into the open mouth of one of the unfledged blackbirds.
It was just then, Jim, that I remembered my little unfledged birds and their ruined home, and the mother who had lost them, and I folded my hands and looked up into mother's face almost as if she had been God.
La Tour d'Azyr's birth compelled him no less to do no serious hurt to the unfledged lad he had so grievously provoked.
In the wings stood the beautiful, melancholy lover, awaiting his cue, and immediately behind him the unfledged Scaramouche, who was anon to follow him.
Besides, he quite believes he has an unfledged Claude Lorraine or Salvator Rosa on his hands.
With the wild creatures we sometimes see one instinct overcoming another, as when fear drives a bird to desert its nest, or when the instinct of migration leads a pair of swallows to desert their unfledged young.
A grouse will not readily leave her unfledged young, but she will leave her eggs when disturbed by man or beast with apparent unconcern.
Gaurlagh; a little child, a baby: anunfledged bird.
From the Irish scal (bald), from which comes the Irish scalachan, anunfledged bird.
Scalder, an unfledgedbird (South): scaldie and scaulthoge in the North.
May I speak as an unfledged doctor, but still as one burdened with unused knowledge?
Destruction of the young or unfledged Locusts (Caloptenus spretus).
On the Natural History of the Rocky Mountain Locust and on the habits of the young or unfledged insects as they occur in the more fertile country in which they will hatch the present year.
They were then unfledged and of tender years, but thou couldst not injure them then.
But my unfledged children are incapable of effecting their escape.
And he did this, desiring to put in a word for his unfledged offspring.
