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Sentences ending with bird

A sloop yacht, with a ridiculously shortened sail, was coming in from the Narrows, scudding before the wind like a frightened bird. [9]
She had seen which way I had gone with the Pharanites and followed me up, and she soon found me, for she had the eyes of a gazelle and the ears of a startled bird. [10]
A jail-bird he was still, but an innocent jail- bird. [11]
Comfortable as she was now, she was still a prisoned bird. [10]
Of course Marget was miserably embarrassed, for she had no reason to suppose there would be half enough for a sick bird. [5]
Every rag about the ship is spread to the breeze and she is speeding over the sea like a bird. [5]
From that day the nightingale was a sacred bird. [5]
Hence it caught the eye of any one who passed by, even at the distance of many yards, and no doubt that of every passing bird. [1]
Spiza cyanea, during the breeding-season, is of a bright blue colour; and though generally peaceable, it attacked S. ciris, which has only the head blue, and completely scalped the unfortunate bird. [1]
Such tranquil stupidity, such supernatural gravity, such self-righteousness, and such ineffable self-complacency as were in the countenance and attitude of that gray-bodied, dark-winged, bald-headed, and preposterously uncomely bird! [5]

Short sentences using bird

The bird tripped on it. [11]
Goes like a bird. [4]
Fightin' for a bird! [12]
Toward dawn the bird ceased. [5]
Minerva's bird is an owl. [10]
Saw one bird. [5]
Poor bird! [12]

Sentences containing bird two or more times

The buzzard is the sacred bird of the South, and you can't touch him; the alligator is the sacred bird of the Government, and you've got to let him alone. [5]
For thus the song ran: "Oh, the bird in a cage and the bird on a tree Voila! [11]
The Mistress said she heard a bird that morning singing in the sun a spring song, it was a winter bird, but it sang. [4]
I expected to outwit the bird by a duplicity that was simplicity itself I may have over-calculated the sagacity and reasoning power of the bird. [4]
The bird pours out its song unheard and unheeded; but, in time, hunger and thirst assail the creature, and its song grows plaintive and feeble and finally ceases--the bird dies. [5]
She thought there must be some sentimental reason for a man of fifty or more carrying a bird about with him; and she did not rest until she had drawn from Jean Jacques that he was taking the bird to his daughter in the West. [11]
This brought to mind her bird, her poor bird, who hung there yet. [12]
Why, Mars Tom, in de fust place he ain't a bird, strickly speakin'--" "He ain't a bird, eh? [5]
She has a flair for the romantic, for the thing that's out of reach--the bird on the highest branch, the bird in the sky beyond ours, the song that was lost before time was, the light that never was on sea or land. [11]
The man that can track a bird through the air in the dark and find that bird is the man to track me out and find the judge's assassin--no other need apply. [5]

More example sentences with the word bird in them

There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
Go home again, you bird of evil note, go home! [12]
The poor bird yonder is as well qualified to encounter it, and be turned adrift upon its mercies--Hark! [12]
Ivry man and wumman here at Tralee looks like an animal or a bird in a zoolyogical gardin. [11]
You've heard the words of the song--the river drivers sing it: "'What is there like to the cry of the bird That sings in its nest in the lilac tree? [11]
The former is wonderfully strong; a confined bird will at the proper season beat her breast against the wires of her cage, until it is bare and bloody. [1]
The snow-white bird, with the yellow head, scratched seventeen times before Xanthe, and, on reaching Mopsus, twenty-three times, which was perfectly correct. [10]
She was pulsing with life, as a bird drunken with the air's sweetness sings itself into an abandonment of motion. [11]
Kit accompanied them with a little bundle, which he had hung in the carriage when they left home, and had not forgotten since--the bird in his old cage--just as she had left him. [12]
This being received with a large silence that suggested doubt, he buttressed it with the statement that his brother once saw the boomerang kill a bird away off a hundred yards and bring it to the thrower. [5]
The tail and wing-feathers of this bird are ornamented with beautiful ocelli, like those on the peacock's train. [1]
The sighing wintry winds complain, The singing bird has flown, --Hark! [6]
Why, that bird will go by a gold watch to bring back one of those patent cake-pans. [5]
Who else can wear the royal purple but my bright bird of Paradise, my beautiful rose Phaedime? [10]
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]
And this, too, was the origin of that school of scientists called Manologists, whose specialty is the deciphering of the ancient records of the extinct bird termed Man. [5]
To him she was the one being in the world worth struggling for; the bird to be caught on the wing, or coaxed into the nest, or snared into the net; and two of the three things he had tried without avail. [11]
The same dog was the culprit; he had the young bird again, and once more he had to give it up. [5]
While Old Phelps was pulling himself together, and we were wringing some gallons of water out of our blankets, we questioned the old man about the "squawk," and what bird was possessed of such a voice. [4]
Dear me, it was like a bird or a flute, or something, talking. [5]
Of course I was fond of wandering about the workshops, and there they kept a magpie, a quaint little bird, which my mother had fed out of compassion. [10]
At first it was distant; but it rapidly approached, tearing through the night and apparently through the tree-tops, like the harsh cry of a web-footed bird with a snarl in it; in fact, as I said, a squawk. [4]
It was all very well (so said the first spokesman) to pluck a few feathers from a bird so bountifully endowed as the Honourable Adam, but were not two gentlemen who should be nameless carrying the joke a little too far? [9]
Polly Ann went up it like a bird, talking all the while to Riley, who blew like a bellows. [9]
If he looks up at an apple-tree in blossom and a bird is piping in the branches, all he thinks of is how soon the happy creature will be killed by the cat! [10]
I am as unhappy as the abandoned bird, for I have lost sight to-day of all that I belong to, and I am alone, and can never find them again. [10]
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]
Her face was turned towards the window, and the bird of paradise with the gold chain on its foot, was still there, perched on the cypress-tree. [10]
He lived up to his creed, for he had ever held his own life as a bird upon a housetop, which a chance stone might drop. [11]
Somehow she seemed to him like a small bird on its first flight from the nest, or, as Patsy Kernaghan would have said, "a tame lamb loose in a zoolyogical gardin. [11]
The bird listened to her singing, bending his little head with its waving plumes, wisely and inquisitively from side to side, and flew away directly she ceased. [10]
Was she face to face with ruin already, she who, two minutes ago, was as safe and happy as a young bird in its nest? [11]
It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise. [5]
I am forced to appear as a bird of evil omen in this cheerful assembly. [10]
She is as timid as a bird, and flew off as soon as she had set down the jug. [10]
He soared over three fences like a bird, and disappeared down the road toward the Washoe Valley. [5]
I am leaving those I love dearly, very dearly, and yet I feel as glad as a bird escaping from its cage. [10]
Confucius speak like this: 'Young woman go to young man; young bird is for green leaves, not dry branch. [11]
The name of this god was Pua; its body was made of a bird, now eaten by the Hawaiians, and called in their language alae. [5]
In memory of this friendly act, the Lord had marked its beak with the cross, and painted a dark-red spot on its breast, where the bird hall been sprinkled with His Son's blood. [10]
See also on this bird Azara, 'Voyages dans l'Amerique merid. [1]
In the woods there was not much sign of animal life, scarcely the note of a bird, but we noticed as we rode along in the otherwise primeval silence a loud and continuous humming overhead, almost like the sound of the wind in pine tops. [4]
A moment, and there came across the valley from the other side, stealing deep sweetness from the hollow rocks, the answer of the bird which had heard her master's call. [11]
Suddenly something happened: the young officer gave a gasp and bending double sat down on the ground like a bird shot on the wing. [2]
That rose o' the valley, that bird wid a song in her face and none an her tongue. [11]
The bird (with the toothpick in his mouth) creates a smile from other chiefs of the system in good standing who are not too busy to look at him. [9]
Thus in time the tail becomes quite askew, and is a tolerable guide to the length of time the bird has been sitting. [1]
Wood gives in the 'Student' (April 1870, p. 116) an excellent account of the attitude and habits of this bird during its courtship. [1]
You shall have the roasted bird, but take this grain too; a barley-porridge is the best medicine for Barbara's condition; I've tried it! [10]
The other bird, the rebel of Leith, who has never been in the feudal system at all, they have stopped laughing at. [9]
This bird, during the pairing-season, flies to "perhaps a thousand feet in height," and after zig-zagging about for a time descends to the earth in a curved line, with outspread tail and quivering pinions, and surprising velocity. [1]
Venters closed up the opening of the cave with a thatch of willows and aspens, so that not even a bird or a rat could get in to the sacks of grain. [13]
Miss Tavish, in the nervous consciousness of fleeting years, was she not still waiting, dashing here and there like a bird in a net for the sort of freedom, audacious as she was, that seemed denied her? [4]
So long as the mother's wings cover it, the young bird doesn't fly so thoughtlessly out of the warm nest into the wide world. [10]
The hammering of the infrequent woodpecker, the call of the lonely bird, the drumming of the solitary partridge,--all these sounds do but emphasize the lonesomeness of nature. [4]
The instances of the horse, the gull, the mother bird, and the elephant show that those creatures put their this's and thats together just as Edison would have done it and drew the same inferences that he would have drawn. [5]
To add to the gloom, almost every living thing seems to have departed, and not a whistle of a bird nor the bark of the squirrel can be heard in this solitude. [5]
You can pity the bird which is shut into a cage too small for it, or the mule which breaks down under too heavy a load, and the cruelty which hurts them rouses your indignation. [10]
It is not the bird of paradise and the nightingale, but the fowl of dark plumage and unmelodious voice, to which is entrusted the sacred duty of eliminating the substances that infect the air. [6]
In this case the bird is spared because he kills snakes. [5]
The brain of the bird is not large; but it is all concentrated on one object, and that is the attempt to elude the devices of modern civilization which injure his chances of food. [4]
Even supposing that the bird is not killed, the loss of blood suffered by an undubbed cock is much greater than that sustained by one that has been trimmed. [1]
He explained that the "Sundowner" was not a bird it was a man; sundowner was merely the Australian equivalent of our word, tramp. [5]
The naturalist said that the oddest bird in Australasia was the, Laughing Jackass, and the biggest the now extinct Great Moa. [5]
Presently she discovered that the notes were those of a bird on a tree immediately outside of her window--a tree of wonderful perfection, the lower branches of which swept the ground. [9]
The supposition was, that the bird would think there was an effort to trap him, that there was a man behind, holding up these garments, and would sing, as he kept at a distance, "You can't catch me with any such double device. [4]
For I suspected that the bird would take wing now. [5]
Yet, as she talked with me, her mind was on the bird, her fingers running up and down the cage bars soothingly, her voice now and again interjecting soft reflections and exclamations. [11]
Then a bird takes flight across the whitening air, another, and then another; the meerkat sits up and begs breakfast of the sun; lizards creep out upon the stones; a snake slides along obscenely foraging. [11]
It was even taken into the king's councils; and no grave matter of state was decided until the soothsayers had laid the thing before the state nightingale and translated to the ministry what it was that the bird had sung about it. [5]
Then, with the swiftness of a bird, she dashed away, and in a moment was lost in the forest. [4]
I never saw such a bird for delivering opinions. [5]
Now the clock struck half-past ten, and Malfalconnet exclaimed, half to the young knight, half to himself, "If only the wild bird does not yet escape our snare! [10]
Then she hastily straightened herself, and with the bird cage in one hand and the winged staff of Mercury, which the clown had handed to her, in the other, she advanced to the centre of the rope. [10]
Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lifted his wings, stuck his head far down below his shoulders toward me and croaked again--a croak with a distinctly insulting expression about it. [5]
Well, they all stand it, but they wouldn't if it was another person's bird. [5]
The nest of Sons of Liberty that Driscoll landed in had not a sober bird in it; in fact there was probably not an entirely sober one in the auditorium. [5]
And Maria, our singing bird, our nimble little squirrel, with those grave, world-weary Sisters! [10]
In the applausive silence, the emotional recess of the sale, as it were, the man to whom the bird and the song meant most, pushed his way up to the stand where M. Manotel stood. [11]
The setting sun shining full on the window had roused the bird, and he began to pour out a flood of delicious melody which flowed on and on, causing the people in the street to stay their steps and look up. [11]
The sun was shining brightly, and a bird was singing in the court; but there was no other sign of life, nor anything to remind one of the profligate genius who was so long a guest here. [4]
On one great sheep-run this bird killed a thousand sheep in a whole year. [5]
At this moment she would have given all she held best and dearest, to be the thing it vexed her so much to be called: a water-wagtail, or some other bird. [10]
Bright and early she was on her way up the Neckar road, as joyous as a bird. [5]
By all accounts she is singing like a bird, and is not afraid on the concert stage any more. [5]
It would have sent a shudder to a stronger heart than hers-- that, in reply to her call on her dead mother, there came from the trees the shrill laugh of the mopoke--the sardonic bird of the South. [11]
She had been self-sufficient enough all her life,--"an independent little bird of freedom," as Crozier had called her; but she was like a boat tossed on mountainous waves now. [11]
She had never seen such a bird before, and thought it could not possibly be a usual one, for a little gold chain was fastened to its foot, and its tail seemed made of sunbeams instead of feathers. [10]
And when he's seen it fall at last, he'll remember but the fun of the chase; and the bird may get to its tree-top again--if it can--if it can--if it can, my lord! [11]
Life as yet seemed a festal hall, and as the bird flies from bough to bough wherever a red berry tempts him, my heart was attracted by every pair of bright eyes which glanced kindly at me. [10]
I tried the scarecrow plan, in a way which I thought would outwit the shrewdest bird. [4]
No bird ever sang in these gardens of the dead. [6]
When the bird sang as it did--you heard it--she sat like one in a trance. [11]
The Athens Eirenicon said that yeast might fail to rise, but touch the button and Orion would rise like a bird. [11]
It is the sacred bird, and the prophecy is come true. [5]
It is very rough; for the machine does at last seem perfect, and just a bird to go! [5]
I prefer the rifle: it makes a clean job of death, and does not prematurely stuff the bird with globules of lead. [4]
And behold it really set: the bird got quite well and fluttered about the workshops again as sound as before, and whenever it saw me it would perch upon my shoulder and peck very gently at my hair with its sharp beak. [10]
Haworth Parsonage is rather a contrast, yet even Haworth Parsonage does not look gloomy in this bright summer weather; it is somewhat still, but with the windows open I can hear a bird or two singing on certain thorn-trees in the garden. [14]
Jean Jacques had raised the cage on a level with his face, and was evidently speaking to the bird in the way birds love--that soft kissing sound to which they reply with song. [11]

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