When the little frightened wren screamed, Mr. Kinglet made up his mind that it was time for him to do something.
He heard a rush through the air, and a nervous little wren screamed to him to look out.
A long stretch of blank wall having been provided both along the sides and at the ends of the room, Wren proceeded to design a masterly combination of the old and new methods of arranging bookcases.
On the top of each case is a square pedestal of wood on which Wren intended to place a statue, but this part of his scheme was not carried out.
The gallery, together with the bookcases, which stand against the walls, both in the gallery and below it, were either designed by Wren himself, or placed there with his approval.
No consideration for fittings such as influenced Wren could have influenced the Italian architect.
Wren never visited Italy, but in 1665 he spent about six months in Paris, where he made the acquaintance of the best painters, sculptors, and architects, among whom was the Italian Bernini.
Ambrosian Library, Milan: description, 271; may have been copied by Wren at S.
If we now return to Cambridge, we shall find that the influence of Wren can easily be traced in all the library fittings put up in the course of the 18th century.
Wren to describe bookcases which were partly set against the walls, partly at right-angles to them.
Wren placed the library of his new cathedral in the western transept, with an ingenuity of contrivance and a dignity of conception peculiarly his own.
Wren placed a continuous bookcase along the north wall of this room, extending from floor to ceiling.
The first piece of library work executed by Wren in England was at Lincoln Cathedral, 1674, where after the Restoration a new library was required.
After supper, for in Meadville nobody "dined," Miss Prescott and the girls sauntered out with The Wren to obtain some clothing for the waif who had so strangely come into their possession.
It was while they were still discussing the situation that the automobile with Jake at the wheel and Miss Prescott and The Wren in the tonneau, drove into the grounds.
With them came The Wren in a neat dress and new shoes, an altogether different looking little personage from the waif of the woods whom they had rescued at noon.
They were traveling south then, Wren said, and that was two weeks ago.
She is certain that The Wren is her daughter and gives a description of her that tallies in every particular.
The little brown Wren had become very dear to all of them.
After one look at Wren she swayed and then, recovering herself, called out in the voice that only a mother knows: "Sylvia!
She said that Wren was caught out in a heavy thunderstorm and sought refuge in a gipsy camp, as she learned afterward from a farmer who had seen her.
The Carolina wren decidedly objects to being stared at, and likes to dart out of sight in the midst of the underbrush in a twinkling while the opera-glasses are being focussed.
Even in winter weather, when the wren has to stand on a rim of ice, he will duck and splash his diminutive body.
London determined to revive, if possible, the grand lodge and the communications of the society under a new grand master, Sir Christopher Wren being dead.
Only the Swallow and the Wren were left; neither of them were a bit frightened.
It was close to him, just outside the arbour; and when a wren sings close to you, it pierces your ears like the shrillest whistle ever blown by schoolboy.
When he came to his own old oak he paused and listened; but no sound was heard but the song of the wood-wren in the higher foliage.
But while it was still going on, there was heard at the top of all the din the clear shrill song of a Wren from a heap of old sticks by the wall.
And the wren and Scarlatti getting the better of him, he passed out of the churchyard, and actually began to feel that he was hungry.
But they were too eager for the debate to begin, to mind much what she said, and they all consented to accept the Wren as president.
A young of the Golden-crested Wren was shot, full grown and fledged, but not a sign of yellow on the head.
I heard the delightful song of the Ruby-crowned Wren again and again; what would I give to find the nest of this northern Humming-Bird?
I finished drawing a little Wren for my good friend Hannah, as well as artificial light would allow.
The Hermit and Tawny Thrushes crossed our path every few yards, the Black-capped Warbler flashed over the pools, the Winter Wren abounded everywhere.
Now if Sir Christopher Wren can give me her measurements, we can very soon determine at about what rate she is leaving us behind under favorable circumstances.
Not unless she's sailing backwards," sneered Noah, who was still nursing his resentment against Sir Christopher Wren for his reflections upon the speed of the Ark.
Sir Christopher Wren showed me these this morning," he said, "and doubted if he dared bring them to Your Majesty.
Master Wrensaid those words--like that--'the poor Queen!
Of them all only the Carolina wren sings in the winter.
The long-billed marsh wren also has a white line over the eye and is about the same size, but is never found away from the tall grass bordering on water, and has no such song as the Carolina.
It is the next to the smallest of our five wrens--only the rare short-billed marshwren is tinier.
The winter wren and the short-billed marshwren could neither of them be mistaken for the Carolina, as both are about an inch and a half shorter and lack the white line.
Finally, in the underbrush just ahead of me, I saw an unmistakable wren singing so ecstatically that he shook and trembled all over with the outpouring of his song.
Neither of us had ever seen this marsh wren before, and we tramped back three long miles to town with a new bird, a new nest, and a new note to our credit in our out-of-doors account.
It is the third smallest of all our birds: only the hummingbird and the short-billed marsh wren are smaller.
I saw a brook, and hurried to it, knowing that if the bird were a winter wren it could not possibly keep from running along the edges of that brook.
With the Carolina wren and the tufted titmouse, the cardinal grosbeak completes a trio of birds that can never be commonplace to one born north of Central Park, New York, which is about the limit of their northern range.
Worthies," II, 385 Sir Christopher Wren says the towers never were alike in design, nor were they "both built together.
He inflated his throat and caroled as wren never caroled before.
The poor wrens were in despair; they wrung their hands and tore their hair, after the wren fashion, but chiefly did they rattle out their disgust and wrath at the intruders.
Rushing into the nest, they hustled those eggs out in less than a minute, wren time.
The house-wren will build in anything that has an accessible cavity, from an old boot to a bomb-shell.
The purple finch was there likewise, and the Carolina wren and brown creeper.
For the wren is saucy, and he has a tongue in his head that can outwag any other tongue known to me.
The winter-wren is another marvelous songster, in speaking of whom it is difficult to avoid superlatives.
Call for the robin redbreast and the wren Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.
The eagle was so angry to think how he was outwitted by the wren, that when the latter was coming down he gave him a stroke of his wing, and from that day the wren has never been able to fly higher than a hawthorn bush.
Well, just as they were starting, the little rogue of a wren perched itself on the eagle's tail.
Mrs. Wrenis so particular maybe none of them will suit her.
In the low bushes and shrubbery Mr. Wren flitted from day to day, keeping his eye on one apartment, especially, which he considered particularly fine.
For some days Mr. and Mrs. Wrenwere too busy to pay much attention to their neighbors.
Well, about the first of April Mrs. Wren arrived, quite tired with her journey, but as sprightly and talkative as ever.
Then what did you say," returned Mrs. Wren with a little cackling sort of a laugh, "what kind of a house is up there to let anyway?
I do wish she would hurry up," he thought, anxious for Mrs. Wren to arrive.
Mr. Wren greeted her with one of his loudest songs, and they flew about chattering and singing for quite a while.
But the swallow was familiar, and the robin and the wren and the highhole, while the woodchuck I saw and heard in Wyoming might have been the "chuck" of my native hills.
The house wren will carry a twig three inches long through a hole of half that diameter.
For instance, all the wrens except our house wren seem to use about the best material at hand for their nests.
She knows how to manage it because the wren tribe have handled twigs so long in building their nests that this knowledge has become a family instinct.
What can be more unsuitable, untractable, for a nest in a hole or cavity than the twigs the house wren uses?
JENNY WREN As little Jenny Wren Was sitting by her shed.
WHEN JENNY WREN WAS YOUNG 'Twas once upon a time, when Jenny Wren was young, So daintily she danced and so prettily she sung, Robin Redbreast lost his heart, for he was a gallant bird.
Bandy Legs The Girl and the Birds A Pig Jenny Wren Little Tom Tucker Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?
She waggled with her tail, And nodded with her head, As little Jenny Wren Was sitting by the shed.
The wren replied, "Your eyes are weak; Pray try a pair of glasses.
The rabbit smiled, and took the hint, And early in the morning The wren observed a dainty pair His pleasant face adorning.
The Winter Wren inhabits that part of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, breeding chiefly north of the United States and migrating at the approach of winter nearly or quite to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Winter Wren builds its nest in the matted roots of an overturned tree, in brush-heaps, in moss-covered stumps, or on the side of a tree trunk.
The usual song is wichety, wichety, wichety, uttered with the cheerful vigor that makes the Carolina wrenso attractive.
And Audubon beautifully expresses the song as it appealed to him: "The song of the Winter Wren excels that of any other bird of its size with which I am acquainted.
This diminutive form of bird life, which is also called Bunty Wren and Little Log Wren, is a denizen of the forest, and it is more common in those forests found on bottom lands adjacent to rivers.
But, in justice to his species, mention should be made of the myth that asserts that in ye golden time the wren was the only bird brave enough to enter heaven and bring down fire to earth for the benefit of the mortals.
The unquiet finch Calls from the distant hollows, and the wren Uttereth her sweet and mellow plaint at times.
The willow-wren sings, but his voice and that of the wind seem to give emphasis to the holy and meditative silence.
First one said something in wren language, and then the other answered; they were husband and wife, and after a long consultation they flew to the corn-rick and crept into a warm hole under the thatch.
Just the same, I believe that Jenny Wren told the truth and that there is news over in the Old Briar-patch," he muttered to himself.
Of course Jenny Wren didn't mean to tell the secret of the Old Briar- patch, because she had promised Peter Rabbit that she wouldn't.
On her way home from the Old Briar-patch, Jenny Wren stopped to rest in a bush beside the Crooked Little Path that comes down the hill, when who should come along but Jimmy Skunk.
Jenny Wren in a very indignant tone of voice, and hopped all over the little bush while she was speaking.
He smiled and smiled until Jenny Wren had to bite her tongue to keep from asking what was pleasing him so.
But if you get on the right side of Jenny Wren and ask her to keep a secret, she'll do it.
Of course he heard the foolish gossip of Jenny Wren and he pricked up his ears.
Now just as usual Jenny Wren was fidgeting and fussing about, and Jimmy Skunk grinned as he watched her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wren" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
