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Sentences starting with birds

Birds and animals were her friends--she called them her kinsmen. [11]
Birds of prey were attacking his body as it lay upon the ground, and she could not drive them off. [10]
Birds can be taught various tunes, and even the unmelodious sparrow has learnt to sing like a linnet. [1]
Birds imitate the songs of their parents, and sometimes of other birds; and parrots are notorious imitators of any sound which they often hear. [1]
Birds possess acute powers of observation. [1]
Birds have fine powers of discrimination, and in some few instances it can be shewn that they have a taste for the beautiful. [1]
Birds also sometimes live in triplets, as has been observed with starlings, carrion-crows, parrots, and partridges. [1]
Birds under confinement distinguish different persons, as is proved by the strong and permanent antipathy or affection which they shew, without any apparent cause, towards certain individuals. [1]
Birds sometimes exhibit benevolent feelings; they will feed the deserted young ones even of distinct species, but this perhaps ought to be considered as a mistaken instinct. [1]
Birds unknown to Audubon, yet flying, as it were, with a rush. [6]

Sentences ending with birds

F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
To-morrow morning, dear, we'll turn our faces from this scene of sorrow, and be as free and happy as the birds. [12]
As the bird was unable to crack them, he placed them one by one in his water-glass, evidently with the notion that they would in time become softer--an interesting proof of intelligence on the part of these birds. [1]
The soft-hearted tyrant was really sorry for the faithful old servant he had bought a generation since for the home to which he had brought his fair young wife, and he began to speak kindly to her, as he had previously done to the birds. [10]
While this conversation was going on the gemcutter was feeding his birds. [10]
Several authors have used the strongest expressions in describing these resplendent colours, which they compare with those of the most brilliant birds. [1]
It had swept up to Vadrome Mountain, and had marched furiously through the forest, carrying down hundreds of trees, drowning the roars of wild animals and the crying and fluttering of birds. [11]
Her voice came up to him indistinctly because of the clatter of the birds. [11]
We do not understand the notes of birds. [6]
John buried him under the twin hawthorn-trees,--one white and the other pink,--in a spot where Calvin was fond of lying and listening to the hum of summer insects and the twitter of birds. [4]

Short sentences using birds

The birds eat the worms. [4]
My voice recalls the birds. [5]
We birds now sing differently. [10]
The birds are returning. [10]
How are the birds? [5]
But are they birds? [10]
Calvin eats the birds. [4]
Bluish, reddish, spotted birds. [10]
The birds, twittering, awoke. [9]
Other birds, too. [5]

Sentences containing birds two or more times

Another neighbor suggests that the birds do not open the pods; that a sort of blast, apt to come after rain, splits the pods, and the birds then eat the peas. [4]
For the description of these birds, see Gould's 'Handbook to the Birds of Australia,' vol. [1]
The winter birds had gone north; the summer birds had not yet come. [4]
In these latter birds, similar feathers, beautifully ocellated, ornament the head, as is likewise the case with some gallinaceous birds. [1]
Although many young birds, belonging to various families, thus give us a glimpse of the plumage of their remote progenitors, yet there are many other birds, both dull-coloured and bright-coloured, in which the young closely resemble their parents. [1]
The minute Tom begun to talk about birds I judged he was a goner, because Jim knowed more about birds than both of us put together. [5]
With other birds, as Mr. Jenner Weir has reason to believe, hybrids are sometimes the result of the casual intercourse of birds building in close proximity. [1]
I may specify, as instances of dull- coloured birds building concealed nests, the species belonging to eight Australian genera described in Gould's 'Handbook of the Birds of Australia,' vol. [1]

More example sentences with the word birds in them

If there are young birds, they feed them together in perfect harmony. [10]
Moreover, of the young birds hatched from the eggs of the common geese, only four were pure, the other eighteen proving hybrids; so that the Chinese gander seems to have had prepotent charms over the common gander. [1]
Many birds, not yet old enough for a prolonged flight, are likewise deserted and left behind. [1]
For thee her wooing hour has passed, The singing birds have flown, And winter comes with icy blast To chill thy buds unblown. [6]
Out in the woods of Beedon he had attuned his flute to the stir of leaves, the murmur of streams, the song of birds, the boom and burden of storm; and it was soft and deep as the throat of the bell-bird of Australian wilds. [11]
She was astir with the birds of a morning, and near the last to retire at night, and happy as the days were long. [9]
The spur was with difficulty drawn from the skull, and as the kite, though dead, retained his grasp, the two birds were firmly locked together; but the cock when disentangled was very little injured. [1]
So it is with birds; but many cock birds do not so much pursue the hen, as display their plumage, perform strange antics, and pour forth their song in her presence. [1]
No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
The lowest classes will detain us for a very short time, but the higher animals, especially birds, must be treated at considerable length. [1]
And so the whole family was as happy as birds, and nobody could be gratefuler and lovinger than what they was to Tom Sawyer; and the same to me, though I hadn't done nothing. [5]
Among the objects which deserve special mention are the shrieking parrots and other birds and the yelping dogs in the grounds of the Society of Acclimatization,--out of the range of which the visitor will be glad to get as soon as possible. [6]
Time it was when the leaves were grown Your rose-colour, my queen; Ere the birds to the south had flown, While yet the grass was green. [11]
He arose, and when he slid down out of his cave the birds fluttered and flew farther away. [13]
He dwelt upon what she did; the walks she took in the park, those hours in the afternoon when, with Mackenzie or Colvin, she vanished into the beeches, making friends with the birds and deer and swans. [11]
Thousands of birds were roosting there, but they were all asleep; a "dark ness that might be felt" brooded over the silent land scape. [10]
But the birds were out, and presently here and there cattle rose up in the fields. [11]
The birds suddenly were on every tree, glancing through the air, filling it with song, sometimes shaking raindrops from their wings. [4]
These young birds were not albinos, as shewn by the colour of their beaks and legs, which nearly resembled the same parts in the adults. [1]
We know how well they are thus concealed; we know that ptarmigans, whilst changing from their winter to their summer plumage, both of which are protective, suffer greatly from birds of prey. [1]
How often do we see birds which fly easily, gliding and sailing through the air obviously for pleasure? [1]
The rushing of water and singing of birds filled their ears. [13]
His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
I think he was genuinely fond of birds, but, so far as I know, he usually confined himself to one a day; he never killed, as some sportsmen do, for the sake of killing, but only as civilized people do,--from necessity. [4]
The whole affair was evidently considered by the birds as one of the highest importance. [1]
This day I was certain I had the greater number of birds in my wallet, and I walked in good heart toward the end of the path. [10]
He said it was a sign when young chickens flew that way, and so he reckoned it was the same way when young birds done it. [5]
From what Mr. Wallace has observed of the habits of certain gallinaceous birds in the East, he thinks that such slight differences are beneficial. [1]
With birds the voice serves to express various emotions, such as distress, fear, anger, triumph, or mere happiness. [1]
Beetles stridulate under various emotions, in the same manner as birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates. [1]
The birds get up from the water, and fly to a distant land. [5]
Those birds which undergo a seasonal change of plumage likewise become much more pugnacious at the period when they are most gaily ornamented. [1]
It was pleasant under the trees, in the gold-flecked shade, with the whistle of quail and twittering of birds everywhere. [13]
Behind 'Polyte came two rotund little men perspiring freely, and laden down with various articles,--a bird-cage with two yellow birds, a hat-trunk, an inlaid card box, a roll of scarlet cloth, and I know not what else. [9]
The President and two others went gunning for birds, and brought down one hundred and forty-eight fowls with three shots. [4]
Without the fish, turtle, and birds sent us, I do not know how we should have got along. [5]
A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
Venters crossed well-worn trails marked with fresh tracks; and when he had stolen on a little farther he saw many birds and running quail, and more rabbits than he could count. [13]
The Royal Court, too, caught on a sudden marching in their robes, turns to and joins the cortegee, and the little birds a-tweeting-tweeting, and two parsons at the grave. [11]
And, with reference to the period at which the power of reproduction is gained, it is a remarkable fact that various birds occasionally breed whilst retaining their immature plumage. [1]
We had listened to the notes of the birds in the Thiergarten; but our mother, the tutor, the placards, our nice clothing, prohibited our following the feathered songsters into the thickets. [10]
They had listened to the lies which the bad birds had told of the Big Knives, they had taken their presents. [9]
References in regard to the assemblages of other birds have already been given. [1]
She would love to play it once again with the old thrill; with the thrill she had felt on the night of Zoe's birthday a little while ago, when she was back again with her lover and the birds in the gardens of Granada. [11]
Accordingly, I applied to Mr. Tristram with respect to the birds of the Sahara, and he has kindly given me the following information. [1]
See, with respect to birds on oceanic islands, my 'Journal of Researches during the Voyage of the "Beagle,"' 1845, p. 398. [1]
In antique Roman times it was the custom of the Deity to try to conceal His intentions in the entrails of birds, and this was patiently and hopefully continued century after century, although the attempted concealment never succeeded, in a single recorded instance. [5]
From time to time the outbursts of rage and agony of despairing men, and horrible jeering laughter, drowned the voices of the flocks of birds and the roaring of the tempestuous sea. [10]
The birds fluttered through the little door and went, with a swift flight, directly to their goal. [10]
Bad birds flying through the land (the British agents) had besought them to take up the bloody hatchet. [9]
Not even the thought of seeing Laura at the capital made him restless in the society of the two young ladies; two birds in hand are worth one in the bush certainly. [5]
Male birds sometimes, though rarely, possess special weapons for fighting with each other. [1]
Many birds, especially those which live much on the ground, have undoubtedly been obscurely coloured for the sake of protection. [1]
The spur, in those gallinaceous birds which are thus provided, is generally single; but Polyplectron (Fig. [1]
I presume that this observation must have been made on birds under confinement. [1]
He would show this Gorgio robber what a Romany could do, and do as easily as the birds sing. [11]
The generality of this fact is quite remarkable: it holds good with almost all mammals, birds, amphibians, and fishes; also with many crustaceans, spiders, and some few insects, such as certain orthoptera and libellulae. [1]
When Psamtik passed they were just being fed; cakes soaked in milk, salt and clover-blossoms were placed in golden cribs for the cows, and small birds of many-colored plumage in the beautifully-wrought and ornamented cage of the sparrow-hawk. [10]
There, yes, there they cherish the heresy that makes the gods into puppets of straw, and the majesty of the throne into an owl for pert and insignificant birds to peck at. [10]
And one reads there these inscriptions: "Whatever their mode of faith, or creed, who feed the wandering birds, will themselves be fed. [4]
In thy nest there are two birds where was but one. [11]
Therefore he commanded them to cast the tomahawk into the river, and when they should return to their land to drive the evil birds from it. [9]
But who heeds them on a sunny Spring morning in the forest, when the birds are singing, twittering, trilling, pecking, cooing and calling so joyously? [10]
The possession by them of organs, which with long-continued practice might have been used for speech, although not thus used, is paralleled by the case of many birds which possess organs fitted for singing, though they never sing. [1]
Unfortunately, we found the young birds already hatched, and were compelled to return with our errand unperformed. [10]
The quiet of the woodland, the song of the birds, the tumbling brook, the smell of the rich earth, replenishing its strength from the gorgeous falling leaves, had soothed him. [11]
Venters thought of the woman who loved the birds and the green of the leaves and the murmur of the water. [13]
Do you see the wild birds flying towards Carillon? [11]
Circling above were the vile aasvogels, the loathsome birds which followed the track of war, watching, waiting till they could swoop upon the flesh blistering in the sun. [11]
I started up the valley, and presently all the earth grew blithe, and the birds filled the woods and valleys with jocund noise. [11]
The birds in the trees felt the spell. [4]
The lindens in the square were already putting forth young leaves, the birds were singing, and her heart swelled more joyously than it had done for many years. [10]
Air is at the same time swallowed, and the oesophagus thus becomes much swollen; and this probably acts as a resonator, not only with the hoopoe, but with pigeons and other birds. [1]
The songs of the rowers, the plashing strokes of their oars and the cries of the birds, all contributed to enliven the watery landscape of the Nile valley, which, though varied in color, was somewhat monotonous. [10]
The moss on the rocks had changed from brown to green, and the vagrant birds had fluttered back from the south. [11]
The fact of the pied birds being pursued and persecuted with much clamour by the other ravens of the island was the chief cause which led Brunnich to conclude that they were specifically distinct; but this is now known to be an error. [1]
The escutcheon of the noble family from which Rosalinde, Herr Casper's wife, had descended rested against the shield bearing the birds. [10]
The birds open the morning with a lively chorus. [4]
The birds of the middle region dazzle with their contrasts of plumage, and their voices are for screaming rather than singing. [4]
It is not the mere articulation which is our distinguishing character, for parrots and other birds possess this power. [1]
Cormorants dived under the long rollers that came crashing in from the Pacific; gulls wheeled and screamed in the soft wind; alert little birds darted here and there with incredible swiftness, leaving tiny footprints across the ribs and furrows of the wet sand. [9]
The blossoms of the haw perfumed the air deliciously, and a few birds whistled blithely along the banks. [5]
Only two sounds; the happy clamor of the birds in the groves, and the muffled music of the Neckar, tumbling over the opposing dykes. [5]
So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods, and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the prairie farms. [5]
The melancholy of the gorgeously tinted trees, the flights of the birds to the south, the smell of the fallow field, the wind with the touch of the coming rains--these had given to a growing discontent with her monotonous life the desire born of self-pity. [11]
Now with birds the evidence stands thus: they have acute powers of observation, and they seem to have some taste for the beautiful both in colour and sound. [1]
We stan' at the door and look out, and all the prairie is green, and the sun stan' up high like a light on a pole, and the birds fly by ver' busy looking for the summer and the prairie-flower. [11]
Come now, Telemachus, the dame's birds seem to delight you very much. [10]
This indeed is the case to a certain extent with some birds, as we have seen with the peahen, wild turkey, and certain kinds of grouse. [1]
The singing of the birds, the blowing of the south wind, the sparkle of the waves, all found a response in Edith's heart, which leaped with joy. [4]
The choir of the birds was singing an evening anthem now as then, to the lower notes of Coniston Water, and the moist, hothouse fragrance of the ferns rose from the deep places. [9]
He anxiously showed the birds to the old hero also, and the latter's only reply was, "Watch the helm and sails! [10]
Gould's 'Handbook to the Birds of Australia,' vol. [1]
Gould's 'Handbook of the Birds of Australia,' vol. [1]
Gould, 'Handbook to the Birds of Australia,' vol. [1]
Gould, 'Handbook of the Birds of Australia,' 1865, vol. [1]
The doctor retorted that theological students developed a third eyelid,--the nictitating membrane, which is so well known in birds, and which serves to shut out, not all light, but all the light they do not want. [6]
And Calvin, aware that the summer is past and the harvest is ended, and that a mouse in the kitchen is worth two birds gone south, scampers away to the house with his tail in the air. [4]
Many naturalists believe that the singing of birds is almost exclusively "the effect of rivalry and emulation," and not for the sake of charming their mates. [1]
Do you know that the birds and other animals those beggars have been drawing, which we thought were caricatures, are the real thing? [4]

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