With what a whispering and a lulling sound They watch the children sport about the ground, Longing, it seems, to join the pretty play That laughs and runs the light-winged hours away.
Three broad-winged gulls, himself their lord, He hitches to a silken cord, Bits them and bridles them with skill And bids them draw him where he will.
A meadow-lark, the last one of his kind, winged a leisurely way southward, singing as he flew.
From the distant orchard came the breath of apple blooms, and a single bluebird winged his solitary way across the fields, his colour gleaming brightly for an instant against the silvery clouds.
Many of the birds had gone, and fairy craft of winged seeds, the sport of every wind, drifted aimlessly about in search of some final harbour.
Thousands of blue-winged teal invade India in September, but most of the other species of non-resident duck do not arrive until October or even November.
The bronze-winged jacana does not grow these long tail feathers.
In the United Provinces the winged termites appear after the first fall of the monsoon rain in June or July as the case may be.
The bronze-winged jacana is a black bird with bronze wings.
Myriads of winged forms in sportive flight, When gathered clouds with ceaseless fury pour A constant deluge in the rushing shower.
Towards the end of the month the garganey or blue-winged teal (Querquedula circia), which are the earliest of the migratory ducks to visit India, appear on the tanks.
They are the pheasant-tailed and the bronze-winged jacana.
Every lover of the winged folk should make a point of visiting, late in March or early in April, an islet on which these birds nest.
The nest of the bronze-winged species is usually larger and more massive than that of the water-pheasant.
A moment more, and the king himself appeared, walking alone, in his armour and winged helmet, his left hand upon the hilt of his sword, his splendid mantle hanging to the ground behind his shoulders.
She had suffered terribly in that moment when he had spoken to her out of the crowd, and the winged word had made a wound that rankled still.
Now what saint or archangel Stands winged on a dragon, Bearing golden scales and a broad bladed sword all golden?
The windows of the Tower stand open day and night; the winged Guests come when they please, and hold communication with the unknown Keeper of the Tower.
If a black vestigial male is crossed to a gray long-winged female (fig.
Every notch winged female has one X chromosome that carries the factor for notch and one X chromosome that is "normal".
Every female with notch wings bred to a wild male, will produce in equal numbers notch winged daughters and daughters with normal wings.
And my girl was wildly excited, picking up the dead birds and catching the winged ones and bringing them to me.
But even in winter I know of several species of birds who separate in this manner, particularly the red-winged starling, among whom thousands of old males may be found with few or no young or females along with them.
That she could be content if he but knew (Her poor small self could claim no other due) How Lisa's lowly love had highest reach Of winged passion, whereto winged speech Would be scorched remnants left by mounting flame.
Many of the soft-winged beetles (Malacoderms) are excessively abundant in individuals, and it is probable that they have some similar protection, more especially as other species often strikingly resemble them.
There are a considerable number of Diptera, or two-winged flies, that closely resemble wasps and bees, and no doubt derive much benefit from the wholesome dread which those insects excite.
The brightest and most lucent brains had flashed into winged words and illuminated that long handsome room.
Rooks winged homeward through the fading light, and the Dog Trust gambolled in the middle-distance of the lawn as the cock-chafers went booming by.
He, the great poet, had woven his winged words around her.
It is most worthy of notice, that in the almost solitary Biblical instance of winged angels (see Isaiah vi.
Then said my bright-winged guide, 'Hast thou no word for each of these?
Thus, two winged souls may often have been imprisoned within a faith of heavy ceremonials.
I should think bad dreams would have winged up, and made her pillow an uncomfortable one.
And she was there before them dancing, dancing, like a winged thing in the violet radiance.
The yacht was speeding like a winged thing on her way.
The fairies, after their excusable interval of rings and roundelays, winged to their headquarters in Paradise Court.
But the winged lords and ladies of Elfdom are the happy fortunate.
Even during my sudden flight through the air I had not once released my grip upon my long-sword, and now I ran beneath the two battling monsters, jabbing the winged terror repeatedly with its sharp point.
Silk-winged breezes played amidst the flowers, and birds of every description carolled their song in varying strains.
Theodore's hours from this time winged heavily away.
It is amusing to see the activity and excitement which reigns in an ant's nest when the exodus of the winged individuals is taking place.
The perfect sexes are winged on their first attaining the adult state; they alone propagate their kind, flying away, previous to the act of reproduction, from the nest in which they have been reared.
The swarming or exodus of the winged males and females of the Sauba ant takes place in January and February, that is, at the commencement of the rainy season.
I have already described the line of sediment formed on the sandy shores lower down the river by the dead bodies of the winged individuals of this species.
On close examination, they are seen to be minute two-winged insects, with dark coloured body and pale legs and wings, the latter closed lengthwise over the back.
I noticed that the winged termites, or white ants, which came by hundreds to the lamps at night, when alighting on the table, often jerked off their wings by a voluntary movement.
The successful debut of the winged males and females depends likewise on the workers.
Swarms of dragonflies appeared in the daytime about the pools of water created by the rain, and ants and termites came forth in the winged state in vast numbers.
The ground at the foot of the eucalypti was carpeted with grass, and from the bushes escaped flights of little birds, which glittered in the sunlight like winged rubies.
Some hundreds of birds lived there nestled in the holes of the stone; Herbert, jumping over the rocks, startled a whole flock of these winged creatures.
But it was possible that others existed whose bite was mortal such as the deaf vipers with forked tails, which rise up under the feet, or those winged snakes, furnished with two ears, which enable them to proceed with great rapidity.
